Consumer Product Modifications
Existing businesses working in existing markets are the most obvious sources for technical change. There are few consumer who have not struggled with a candy wrapper that refused to easily peel off who didn’t think about an improvement that would make it easier to get at the sweet. There are thousands of kitchen laboratoties that have prototypes of one form or another in some stage of development. The patent office spends over 60 percent of its time processing applications for fishing lures and breadmakers and the balance on reasonably serious intellectual property.