Order of European Inventors and Innovators
Merit as an instrument
Inventive recognition and Romania’s external economic standing
Read the article →Articles on the culture of technical creation, the people behind the ideas, and the road an invention travels from patent to market.
Articles on the culture of technical creation, the people behind the ideas, and the road an invention travels from patent to market.
Inventive recognition and Romania’s external economic standing
Read the article →Technical creativity seen as a human capital problem
Read the article →Why small innovative firms do not reach financing
Read the article →What happens to Romanian inventions after they win awards
Read the article →The question is not whether technical creation can be taught. It is already taught, in a few places. The question is what is taught there —…
Read the article →Knowing and creating are two different skills. School trains the first thoroughly and assumes the second follows. It does not.
Read the article →The idea has circulated for years among Romanian inventors. It deserves to be taken seriously — and so do the reasons such structures usually fail.
Read the article →Biomass is Europe’s largest renewable energy source — and the one least talked about. The reason is that it does not look spectacular.
Read the article →About 30% of Romania’s territory already has arid or semi-arid conditions. The European Court of Auditors found the risk was not being addressed effectively. It is…
Read the article →They are treated as pleasant exhibitions handing out medals. They are, in fact, the one place where an inventor with no institution behind them can be…
Read the article →Appeals to “the several million Romanians abroad” say nothing useful. The figure that matters is a different one, and it is hidden inside an average.
Read the article →I have written here about the fear of ridicule — the fear of what others will say. There is also a resistance that needs no others…
Read the article →Almost every inventor has this story: weeks of struggle with a problem, then giving up, going to bed — and in the morning the solution is…
Read the article →What keeps someone at the tenth attempt, when the first nine did not work? Not what we usually think optimism is.
Read the article →“Be creative” is the most useless advice in the world. Creativity is not a state you enter, it is something you do to a problem —…
Read the article →A model from 1926 that has lasted a century, not because it is complete but because it is useful: it tells you which stage you are…
Read the article →I have written about the barriers that sit inside a person. There are also obstacles that sit outside — and they are no less real for…
Read the article →Romania spends 0.5% of GDP on research and comes last in Europe on innovation. The figure that explains why is not the one on the report’s…
Read the article →Recognition is a form of credit, and it works. But it stops where the workshop begins — and nobody builds an institution for a workbench, a…
Read the article →Discovery, invention, innovation — three words that do not mean the same thing, and the discipline that studies how the mind produces the new.
Read the article →Schumpeter, the “valley of death”, and why it is not ideas that Romania lacks but the company they need along the way.
Read the article →It rarely gives its real name. It sounds like modesty, like realism. A clinical psychologist on the barrier that stops ideas before they are ever spoken.
Read the article →Vuia, Vlaicu, Coandă, Paulescu, Odobleja — not a country without a tradition, but a tradition without an audience.
Read the article →The manifesto of the Order: why recognition has to be an institution rather than an accident, what we set out to do — and what we…
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