Places of Invention:
The First Lemelson Institute

Organized by the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

Lemelson Archives, Incline Village, Nevada

16-18 August 2007

» From the director

» Executive summary

» Mission & goals

» Setting the stage

The legacy of Jerome Lemelson

Getting the inventive juices flowing

The role of an inventor's style on places of invention

The power of place

» Framing the task

» Overview of research on places of invention

» Examining places of invention

Creative people: the people/place nexus

Creative places: the people/place nexus

Creating places of invention: regions and new spaces

Creating places of invention: adapting existing spaces

» Making ideas concrete: public dissemination

» Findings

» Participants

» Agenda

» Acknowledgments

» About the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

» About the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

 

»Appendix 1: "Places of Invention" syllabus (PDF)

»Appendix 2: "Astronomical Places of Invention" (PDF)