Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Who pays the piper calls the tune: time and money out of step
- In
- Transactions of The Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. ME11, no. 3, Sep 1986, pp. i-ix
- Description
1986 A G M Michell Address of the College of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Engineers Australia.
- Abstract
I wish to expand on a theme which has emerged in one form or another in each and every Michell award address - that of the difference in the scales of time and cost between invention, which is the begetting, gestation and birth of an idea, and innovation, which is the long hard road one must travel to bring the idea through adolescence to commercial maturity.