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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 30 March 2010 and produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program, compares lone maverick inventors with corporate inventors working in large organizations. It focuses on unconventional energy and propulsion, including free energy and antigravity claims. It sorts inventors into five types. It concludes that trained maverick inventors (Types 3 and 4) are the most likely source of the next innovations, and that untrained inventors deserve only casual watching.
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UNCLASSIFIED/ fffHl 8PPitltllt tJ31! '51CE I Table 1. Types and Examples of Think Tanks Tvne Examoles Universities Radlab, MIT, Cambridae, MA Government Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY NASA (for example, Glenn Research Center Brook Park OH) Quasi-Government/Military DARPA, Arlinqton, VA Corporate GM Research Laboratory, Warren, MI Alcatel/Lucent - Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ Skunk Works, Palmdale, CA Privately Funded Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada Institute for Advanced Studies, Austin, TX SARA (Scientific Applications & Research Associates), Cvnress, CA Independent, Nonprofit Battelle, Columbus, OH SRI International, Menlo Park, CA EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), Palo Alto, CA Austrian Research Centers, Seibersdorf, Austria These entities typically arose in response to a particular need or crisis. Perhaps the most famous and effective think tank was the vast agency known as the Manhattan District. Less well known to the public was, for example, the RadLab at MIT. Except in the case of privately funded organizations, they all support many hundreds to thousands of researchers, of which a variable proportion could be termed "inventors." Even the smaller entities support a dozen or so highly motivated scientists and engineers easily classified as inventors. A benefit of being an inventor in a large organization is access to information. The corporate inventor can quickly determine whether a certain avenue of approach has 3 UNCLASSIFIED/ ,'FQII. QFFlliil,tik I lili O_,k¥
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