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| Closed-Loop Recycling | Recycling a material back to the same type. |
| Copyright | Exclusive legal rights to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work). |
| Downcycling | Recycling of a material to a lower grade of physical or commercial value. |
| Ecological Design | A method of design that is environmentally benign and economically viable. |
| Engineering Design Process | A decision making process (often iterative) in which the basic sciences, mathematics, and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. |
| Entrepreneur | A person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit. |
| Innovation | An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something. |
| Intellectual Property | Any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value, especially copyrighted material, patents, and trademarks. |
| Intrapreneur | A person in a corporation who is given the freedom and resources to initiate products, business ventures, etc. |
| Invention | A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation. |
| Licensing | The granting of permission to use intellectual property rights, such as trademarks, patents, or technology, under defined conditions. |
| Patent | A grant made by a government that gives an individual or a body the sole right to make, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time. |
| Provisional Patent | A less expensive and detailed application that allows one year’s protection to provide time to further investigate or pursue licensing before filing a regular patent application. |
| Royalties | A share of the proceeds or product paid to the owner of a right, as a patent, for permission to use it or operate under it. |
| Sustainable Design | Design that is environmentally benign, economically viable, and socially equitable. |
| Trade Secret | Any device, method, formula, etc. known to the manufacturer who uses it but not to competitors. |
| Trademark | A symbol, design, word, letter, etc. used by a manufacturer or dealer to distinguish a product or products from those of competitors. |
