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when my boss came later and told me he had bought the machinery needed. I was proud, as I was only 24 at the time. But instantly it hit me: It is now my responsibility to make it work’! As this example shows, early ideas can only become something when there are people with the passion, courage, and willingness to take it all the way until it works. The idea recognition and modeling of the idea led the actors to deliver creations on various stages: ’Oscar Wood had made some prototypes of his idea and I traveled around and sold the idea. When we had our backs up and had had enough of orders, it was easy to make the decision to invest’. Although the creations are not yet in the final stage of a complete product, one can ideally trigger sales with the creation and put the project into action. Table 61 shows the results of the analysis of this association. Activist vs. Invention
Idea
Evolution
Creations
Activist
Act Id
Act Ev
Act Crea
N = 2 , 1 , 0
Table 61. Test of Causality Between Activist and Invention. The conclusion is that dependency is mutual, and that it works in both directions between the actors and the making of ideas (see Table 62). Yet it should be stated that there are certain activists in the innovation context who produce ideas. Activist vs. Invention
Invention
Activist
Act Inv
Table 62. Conclusion: Dependency Between Activist and Invention.
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