http://www.rethinkip.com/archives/the_6_life_stages_of_inventors.html by Bill Meade, Ph.D. www.basicip.com Part 1: 1/11/2006 Employees don't turn in all the inventions they discover in the course of doing their normal jobs. Why? My answer is that employees self-censor because people are not logical. We are psycho-logical.... en-us http://www.rethinkip.com/archives/intellectual_property_antimatter.html Last March I gave an invention workshop at Michigan State University in East Lansing Michigan. MSU is my alma mater, so the session was a lot of fun because one of my graduate school mentors hosted the session, provided pizza... http://www.rethinkip.com/archives/the_6_life_stages_of_inventors_part_6_senescense.html The off-ramps of the first 5 stages of inventing are entry points to invention senescence. In addition, there is a sixth entry point to senescence. This entry point happens when a scanning inventor goes dark. Seems like this would not...