Invention Study

该项目包括将于2003年至2004年初举行的一系列讲习班，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、心理学、工程、社会和物理科学（包括认知科学、法律和医学）领域的发明家和知识领袖，以及其他受邀嘉宾的聚会。提议的讲习班和大会有两个基本目标。他们的目的是通过一种学术的、跨学科的方法：1)对发明和涉及发明的特殊类型的创造力有新的认识，这样做特别强调对年轻人教育的影响。2)制定对政策制定者有价值的具体发现和建议，以鼓励年轻人的发明创造，并改善发明创造的环境和发明创造对社会的价值。

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.