Inventions as Promoters of Scientific and Technical Progress

Abstract

The development of society in the XX century brought creativity to the foreground of research. It happened because practically in all fields of activity the social demand for creativity became really urgent. In other words, re-evaluation of the place of creativity among modern values was done simultaneously with the recognition that creativity is the main resource for development. There are various types and forms of creativity, but technical creativity is considered to be unique in a way. Inventions, as a “personification” of technical creativity, with such parameters as novelty, value, applicability, are a driving force of technical progress. When the level of economic competition is high and its scope is wide, the price of new ideas correlated with the criteria of their efficiency, productivity, quality, etc., makes the orientation to novelty one of the main constituents of general evolution.