What's the difference between invention and innovation?

What's the difference between invention and innovation? - Yahoo! Answers: "What's the difference between invention and innovation?

There is a distinct difference.

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The government requires that inventions meet the following criteria to be patentable:

1. It must be a process, machine, articles of manufacture, or composition of matter. Computer programs, music, literary works and forms of energy are not patentable.
2. It must be novel or new. That is not known to the public before it was "invented" by the individual seeking patent protection.
3. The subject matter must be useful.
4. It must also be a nonobvious improvement over the prior art "to one of ordinary skill in the art.

An innovation can be any sort of improvement or creation.

Source(s):
Engineer and inventor"

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Whereas innovation may be defined as “change that adds value”, invention may be perhaps best defined as something “new, novel and without precedent”.
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