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| Introduction | |
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| The Process of Invention | |
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| The Paper Clip and the Problem | |
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| What Makes a Great Idea Great? | |
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| The History of the Paper Clip | |
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| What's the Problem? | |
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| Is It the Right Problem? | |
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| Reframing the Problem | |
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| The Evolving Invention | |
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| Invention in Context | |
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| The Hidden Obvious | |
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| The Destination | |
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| Being Confidently Naive | |
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| The Vision and the Visionary | |
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| Needfinding and Paradigms | |
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| Seeing the Hidden Obvious | |
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| The Vision Refined | |
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| Creativity and the Brain | |
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| The Creative Mind | |
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| Feeding the Brain | |
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| Listening to Your Subconscious | |
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| Thinking with the Gut | |
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| Your Inner Senses | |
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| Working Ideas, Percolation, and Not Falling in Love | |
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| Action versus Thought: The Importance of Doing | |
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| The Process of Invention | |
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| The Flash of Inspiration | |
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| The Resonance of an Idea | |
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| Sources of Innovation | |
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| Applications of Life Experience | |
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| Making the Familiar New | |
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| Applying Physical Principles | |
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| Accidental and Chance Observations | |
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| Learning from Nature | |
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| The Processes of Invention | |
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| Design and Invention | |
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| Simplicity | |
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| Profound Simplicity | |
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| The Simple and the Complex | |
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| Zero Mass Design | |
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| Elegance | |
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| The Many Facets of Elegance | |
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| Ingenious Simplicity: The Most from the Least | |
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| Core Inventions: From Screws to Microprocessors | |
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| Adaptive Inventions: The Elegance of Self-Regulation | |
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| Smart Inventions: Inventions That Change with Change | |
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| Characteristics of Elegance-A Summary | |
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| Robustness | |
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| Strength | |
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| Redundancy | |
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| Simplicity | |
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| Self-Healing | |
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| Managed Failure | |
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| Making it Happen | |
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| Problem Solving and Iteration | |
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| A Systems Approach: Connect the Big Pieces First | |
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| KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid | |
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| Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 | |
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| What You Couldn't See from There, You Can See from Here | |
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| Attacking from the Bottom | |
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| Inventing while You Sleep | |
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| Arbitrate and Iterate | |
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| Limiting the Scope | |
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| Stopping | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Anticipating the Unanticipated | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Business of Invention | |
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| Inventing as an Employee | |
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| Selling Your Inventions | |
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| Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Own Company | |
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| Patents | |
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| The Business of Invention | |
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| The Art of Invention | |
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| The Unexplored: Hard Work, Fear, and Fantasy | |
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| Experience and Invention | |
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| The Art of Getting It Wrong | |
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| The Hidden Obvious Revisited | |
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| Serendipity | |
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| The Staircase of Creativity | |
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| The Pleasure of the Problem | |
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| The Inventor's Tool Kit | |
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| Making It Real | |
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| The Art and the Science | |
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| The Future Is Yours to Create | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |