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• v  come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
• v  make up something artificial or untrue

• HelioVolt didn't invent copper indium gallium selenide, a thin film used to generate electricity from sunlight, but it did develop a faster, more cost-effective way to manufacture .
• Like these artistic protagonists, she was determined to break the old formulas and invent a way of expressing herself.
• That spirit of creativity inspired the first Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge, a national competition for inventors sponsored by the History Channel and the National Inventors .

• contrive
• devise
• excogitate
• formulate
• forge
• fabricate
• manufacture
• cook up
• make up

News & Articles

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• Camp Invention returns to Cedar Falls
  CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- Invent Now Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring and fostering invention and creativity, said its Camp Invention summer program is going on this week at Cedar Heights Elementary School.
  June 13, 2013 - Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
• Made in IBM Labs: IBM Scientists Unveil Highly Integrated Millimeter-Wave Transceiver for ...
  Researchers invent solution that seamlessly brings together 4 integrated chips and 64 antennas in a single package for mobile and transportation solutions Proven SiGe BiCMOS prototype takes advantage of under-utilized short-wavelength frequency SEATTLE - Scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) have achieved a milestone in creating a phased-array transceiver that contains all of the millimeter-wave ...
  June 12, 2013 - ThomasNet
• A Global Invention Lab With One Goal: Stop Climate Change
  The Ocean Invention Network is trying to invent our way out of planetary catastrophe. Climate change, as British economist Sir Nicholas Stern says, is perhaps the largest market failure in human history. "The benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs," says the Stern report (PDF), but progress on new international climate investments has stalled. Countries have failed ...
  June 12, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Mike Leavitt in International Herald Tribune
  What we are seeing is the maturing of a global market, and we have to invent new tools to deal with a changing environment,Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said.
• Ronald Reagan in Opinion Journal
  As Ronald Reagan said in 1981, "We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and...