Invention, research and development

A selective summary of the literature on the invention and Industrial Research and Development. It is not an annotated bibliography, it is an attempt to focus on the subject the light shed by many different authors writing in many different, though related fields. Scientific research, invention, technological change--the striking increase in the rate of these activities in western culture during the past three and half centuries has been remarked by innumerable historians, philosphers, and scientists.