4Invention
Invention goes along with wit.
Discovery goes along with luck.
And both cannot go without either of both.
from: Maxims and Reflections #364 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1833 (posthumous)
On the path from idea to innovation one usually encounters invention—literally meaning introduction and the initial realization by execution of the idea. An idea, though, can be already captured by a reasonable description of that inventive execution. The literal meaning of the word “patent” is disclosure and stands for the publication of such a preliminary description of an invention on the way to an innovation. Again, the entelechy of an innovation follows the Analogy of the Divided Line from comprehensive ideas to reasonable descriptions to realized ...
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