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Lemelson Center Research

Lemelson Center Research and Program Focus, 2016-2020

In coming years, we will continue research on the role of place in innovation and drivers for people to become inventors and innovators. We also will initiate research, exhibitions, educational activities, and public engagement work in the new areas of innovation in sports and the role of risk and failure in invention and innovation.

Invention Stories

The Color of Invention

Colors fill the world, yet they aren’t in themselves tangible things that can be held in one’s hand. Colors are imbued with meanings, though they possess no inherent significance. How do we study this ethereal thing we call color?

Invention Stories

Can We Control Surveillance Tech?

With mounting concerns for national security, surveillance technologies are not going away. But is it too late to bring them back under at least some semblance of democratic control?

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Invention Stories

Keep It Secret. Keep US Safe.

Espionage and sabotage were serious concerns for U.S. citizens during WWII. Poster campaigns promoted maintaining secrecy.

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Symposia & Conferences

Inventing the Surveillance Society

Our annual symposium will discuss our surveillance society—but in a different way than what you typically see on the 24-hour news cycle.

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