Inventions have foundered because the social sources vital for their realization—the capital, materials, and skilled personnel—were not obtainable. The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci are stuffed with ideas for helicopters, submarines, and airplanes, but few of those reached even the model stage as a outcome of sources of 1 type or another were lacking. The resource of capital includes the existence of surplus productiveness and an organization able to directing the available wealth into channels during which the inventor can use it.
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