The Language of Invention: Most Innovations Are Rephrasings of Past Inventions

Friday, May 1, 2015 - 11:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Most new patents are combinations of existing ideas and pretty much always have been, even as the stream of fundamentally new core technologies has slowed, according to a new study led by Santa Fe Institute researchers.

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