
1. Introduction
This article looks at the notion of "invention", defined as "the process leading to a new idea", and more specifically at "technical" invention, i.e. the process of creating a new practical idea, relating to an object or method intended for a given use.
The notion of "invention" lies at the crossroads of three notions from which it must be distinguished:
the notion of "innovation", mainly studied by sociology
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