02-06-2013, 01:32 PM
(02-06-2013, 08:23 AM)Yorkie Wrote: We were advised that the reason that the Japanese, Chinese and other oriental nationalities are so inventive ...........
(02-06-2013, 01:09 PM)AlanBeckett Wrote: Is that so? There's a lot of copying and improving, but inventing?
I don't think so.
Alan
Yes, Alan, I know what you mean, but I can study someone else's design, deduce that it can be improved to fit the same need, or amended to fit a very similar requirement, and invent a few additional bits 'n' pieces to meet that original or new requirement.* Then go ahead into production: a 'copy', yes, but not a 100% 'copy': an 'improved / amended version'.
Isn't that called 'product development'?
* And, by way of an illustration, that is what I have done, over the years, to several communications receivers that I have owned. In particular, a few Yaesu-Musen products spring to mind, which, upon analysis and test, proved to be of a questionable (or even downright erroneous) in their design. The inverse of 'coals to Newcastle' ?
Al.
