Summary and Conclusion

Abstract

The considerations in the theoretical part showed that the innovation process is a complex course where a pure linear model is too simplified for a description and where IPR influence the process at many stages. Scientific knowledge is one important input factor to the innovation process, but the role of science for innovation is not entirely clear: Science is an important element in the innovation process, however, much innovation is purely technology driven. Different ways of how to understand the growth of scientific knowledge have been presented. Nevertheless, for a description of the momentum of invention, input-output relationships are not an adequate way of description. Creativity itself is no matter of a systematic scientific approach, even though much innovation is the result of combining parts of already existing knowledge in a new way. It is likely that more research and development results in more invention and innovation but there are many more factors to take into consideration in order to retrieve a complete description of the process of innovation.