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Introduction

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Innovation and Small Business: Volume I

Invention, Innovation and Small Business

2. Invention, Innovation and Small Business

Brychan Thomas, Lynne Gornall, Christopher Miller and Gary Packham

“Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried”

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1762-1826)

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