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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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