About ten years ago, IPBiz recounted the story of the Harvard Business Review publishing an article including the text "plagiarize with pride" [See Harvard Business Review article: Plagiarize with Pride ]. One notes that one of the conclusions on innovation published in the Evans book [ They Made America; see point 3 in the image below ] is hauntingly similar:****The quote from Henry Ford in the Evans book is of interest in the context of Lemley's suggesting that anyone thought Ford "invented" the automobile and that Lemley was straightening us out on this point:Think of the invention of the automobile, and it is hard to avoid thinking of Henry Ford. His mass-production model turned automobiles from individual, hand-crafted devices into mass-market products that we still recognize even today, such as the Model A and the Model T.But Ford did not invent the automobile.In contemplating invention, as distinct from innovation, it is important to…
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