@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2016.0106, TITLE={The inventor, the innovator and the engineer}, AUTHOR={Pierre Saulais, }, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={1}, NUMBER={Issue 2}, YEAR={2016}, URL={https://www.openscience.fr/The-inventor-the-innovator-and-the-engineer}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2016.0106}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={This paper aims at showing how the different contributions to this special issue are connected to the topic of the links between invention, innovation and intellectual property rights. First of all, this topic is introduced as a statement according to which impassioned individuals are inhabited by the sacred fire for one or more of these components. Readers are finally invited to identify themselves with one or the other among these actors.}}