Invention Study

该项目包括将于2003年和2004年初举办的一系列讲习班，最终将于2004年在华盛顿特区举行“发明大会”。研讨会和大会将包括教育、历史、经济学、心理学、工程学、认知科学、法律和医学等社会科学和自然科学领域的发明家和知识分子领袖的聚会，以及其他应邀嘉宾。拟议的讲习班和大会有两个基本目标。通过学术、跨学科的方法，它们的目的是：1)对发明和发明所涉及的特殊创造性有新的认识，并以此特别强调对年轻人教育的影响；2)制定对决策者有价值的具体结论和建议，以鼓励年轻人的发明创造，并加强促进发明的氛围和发明对社会的价值。

This project consists of a series of workshops to be held during 2003 and early2004, culminating in an " Invention Assembly" to be held in Washington D.C. in 2004. The workshops and the Assembly will comprise gatherings of inventors and intellectual leaders in fields including education, history, economics psychology, engineering, social and physical sciences including cognitive science, law and medicine, plus other invited guests. The proposed workshops and Assembly have two basic goals. They aim, through a scholarly, interdisciplinary approach to:1) shed new light on invention, and on the special kind of creativity involved ininventing, and in doing so to place special emphasis on implications for educationof young people.2) develop specific findings and recommendations of value to policy makers in theirefforts to encourage inventiveness in young people, and to enhance the climate forinvention and the value of inventions to society.