Managing Value Across Industries: Modern TRIZ Modeling of Jerome Lemelson’s Inventions

Abstract

Jerome Lemelson, also called “Jerry”, was born in New York on July 18, 1923. Having the role model as Thomas Edison, he earned himself the fame as second most prolific inventor after Edison. He has to his name, to date, 606 patents and counting in a myriad of fields from medical and industrial technologies to gadgets and toys. A consummate inventor, Lemelson it seems used to sleep with a notebook beside him to wake up and jot down his endless ideas that he dreamt.

The American dream is that if the average American invents something novel and worthy of patenting, he’ll find someone to license it. However, for most contemporary inventors, it hasn’t worked out that way. The independent inventor today still has an extremely difficult time convincing corporations that he has a product which deserves to be on the market. Most companies have a tremendous resistance to ideas and technology developed on the outside.¹⁵⁵

Jerome Lemelson

Part 9 is based on the edited and supplemented fragments of the master thesis by Prabhakaran Adhinamilagi (India), a certified graduate of MTRIZ course at GPE Program, TUB