Economic Definition of invention. Defined.
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Term invention Definition: The creation of a new idea, product, or technological process. The act of invention should be contrasted with the process of innovation, with is the dissemination new things throughout society. The distinction is important because inventions do not benefit society until they are distributed throughout the economy as innovations.
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