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	Not Invented Here - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Not Invented Here (NIH) is a pejorative term used to describe a persistent corporate or institutional culture that either intentionally or unintentionally avoids using previously performed research or knowledge because the research and developed knowledge was not originally executed in-house.
		While the etymology is perhaps apocryphal, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is said either to be the direct inspiration for the term -- as a play on its acronym -- or simply as one of the examples of the culture of "Not Invented Here" where the phenomenon occurs most often.
		The concepts of NIH should be contrasted with the opposite: the Invented Here philosophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Not_Invented_Here (2823 words)

	NIH - Not Invented Here
		NIH is part of the PHS, which is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, US agency and a subpart of both P.H.S. and D.H.H.S. National Institutes of Health.
		National Institutes of Health NIH is one of eight health agencies of the Public Health Service which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
		The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
	www.auditmypc.com /acronym/NIH.asp (485 words)

	Not Invented Here: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Not Invented Here (NIH) is a term used to describe a persistent corporate Organizational culture quick summary:
		The national institutes of health is an institution of the united states government which focuses on medical research....
		[For more, click on this link] (NIH) is said either to be the direct inspiration for the term -- as a play on its acronym -- or simply as one of the worst examples of the culture of "Not Invented Here".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/not_invented_here.htm (1316 words)

	speedx weblog: NIH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Not Invented Here (NIH) is a term used to describe a persistent corporate or institutional culture that either intentionally or unintentionally avoids using previously performed research or knowledge because the research and developed knowledge was not originally executed in-house.
		While the etymology is perhaps apocryphal, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is said either to be the direct inspiration for the term -- as a play on its acronym -- or simply as one of the worst examples of the culture of "Not Invented Here".
		In many cases NIH occurs as a result of simple ignorance, as many companies simply never do the research to know whether a solution already exists.
	speedx.geekbunker.org /archives/002316.html (190 words)

	Overcoming "Not Invented Here" Syndrome
		NIHS can be defined as a situation where an external solution is rejected only because it was not internally developed - in other words, there are no other factors that dictate an internally developed solution would be superior.
		The primary symptom of NIHS is a rash of re-inventing wheels.
		NIHS is often found in organizations where no experience exists with component-oriented development, and where re-use is not regularly practiced.
	www.developer.com /design/article.php/3338791 (1114 words)

	Not Invented Here at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Not Invented Here (or NIH) refers to the problem when people in companies continue to ignore existing solutions to problems because it was not created in-house.
		In many cases NIH occurs as a result of simple ignorance, as many companies simply never do the research to know if a solution already exists.
		Original research about the NIH syndrome was by Katz & Allen, 1982, Investigating the Not Invented Here (NIH) Syndrome: a look at the perforomance, tenure and communication patterns of 50 R&D project groups.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Not_Invented_Here.html (169 words)

	aseigo: not invented here
		NIH is that state of mind where you do not accept anything that you didn't create, no matter how good or sensible the decision to use it would be.
		Many people throw the 'Not Invented Syndrome' thing at you as a form of pshychological pressure so that you start thinking 'Oh, we should be adopting more of other people's software and technology then', even if that technology or software doesn't make sense.
		NIH is also a cover for people who know they haven't actually adopted enough technology, software or ideas going in the other direction!
	aseigo.blogspot.com /2005/05/not-invented-here.html (1495 words)

	Not Invented Here
		Yet, as we participate with client companies of every size, whether they are manufacturers, dealers or printers, we run into a very major roadblock to change called "Not Invented Here!" (NIH).
		We hear talk of not taking orders that don’t supply sufficient margin, moving into packaging where there is reported growth and increased selling of private labels as the kinds of big ideas that are going to keep factories full and businesses profitable over the next year.
		The clear message here is that great technology can now be found in companies of all sizes.
	www.digitaloutput.net /content/ContentCT.asp?P=414 (1133 words)

	Shawn Burke - Not Invented Here is Everywhere.
		At MS (and I think other places too), we have a saying called "Not Invented Here" (NIH), which basically means people don't like anything that they didn't build themselves.
		In some cases it's due to the difficulty of what us geeks call "reuse-in-the-large" but usually it's because people tend to think everyone outside their group/team/country/town/clique/tribe is stupid and that they can do whatever better.
		The point is chiropractic medicine is NIH as far as doctors are concerned, and same goes for acupuncture and alternative-medicine in general, and in most cases they have little actual data about effectivness, or lack thereof.
	www.shawnburke.com /Default.aspx?document=212 (727 words)

	OnTheCommons.org \| The Genome, Discovered Not Invented (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sulston is a “commoner,” as his title indicates, and his book provides a nuanced defense of treating knowledge of the genome as a commons.
		There is an analogy here to the protocols by which the World Wide Web operates: where the protocols are common knowledge and cannot be taken private, commerce flourishes; were they are proprietary, commerce hesitates.
		Two earlier posts (here and here) described the useful detail that Nobel laureate John Sulston has brought to the intuition that we should treat the human gen
	onthecommons.org /node/612 (795 words)

	Not invented here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It's main strength he says is that it's an internal DSL (domain specific language) which means it combines the declarative form of traditional build tools like ANT and make, but can lean on the procedural power of ruby when it has to.
		Based on Fowler's trivially simple example here is a makefile using my own Aardvark perl module...
		Fowler's article is well worth reading if you're even slightly interested in how software gets built.
	www.xanadb.com /archive/perl/20050810 (735 words)

	Not Invented Here
		But even away from the path of the scummy rainwater, it was still dirty and fl because the drainage is terrible and it rains a fair bit here in winter.
		It would also be illegal for somebody to run a private commuter bus service up and down the major highway here, and the public systems haven't integrated their services enough to do so (or perhaps have decided not to offer a more attractive option, so as to push people towards public commuter trains).
		It would be hard to change the status quo although some people are thinking about it.
	nih.blogspot.com (2700 words)

	Who Invented The Incandescent Light Bulb Find it Here Who Invented The Incandescent Light Bulb
		Incandescent lamps make light by using electricity New York, invented the tungsten filament, which further improved the longevity of the light bulb.
		Edward Shepard invented an electrical incandescent arc lamp using a Herman Sprengel invented the mercury vacuum pump making it possible to develop a practical electric light bulb
		If you think that Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb then you'd certainly The First True Incandescent Light Bulb.
	www.light--bulbs.com /Who-Invented-The-Incandescent-Light-Bulb.html (316 words)

	Not Invented Here
		We need people simply to pay attention to the work being done and provide their experience, or simply opinions, to bring issues to resolution.
		Here's where to start -- two new mailing lists, one to take iCalendar to draft standard, one to develop and standardize CalDAV.
		We've got good work to do and good people to do it but we need your help.
	nih.blogspot.com /2004/08/if-this-background-material-is.html (523 words)

	Shelter.nu : Libraries : culture by proxy, epistomological musings and perceived freedom from technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		FRBR is cute and smells of semantic modelling, but soaked in 'Not invented here'.
		Or a (I would think) obviously invented narrative of how Alexander The Great felt as he retired to his tent after a battle, experiencing the lowest point in his career...blah, blah.
		One recent public television program (here in the U.S.), advertised as a documentary, broke new ground by being a 100% dramatization.
	shelter.nu /blog-159.html (1815 words)

	Random Walk in E-Learning: Not Invented Here
		Here at my uni, we seem to operate under a “not invented here” motif, i.e., if it wasn’t created by me, I’m not going to use it in my class.
		In my humble opinion, it is the first step of further innovation and discovery.
		Argubly, NIH may as well explain why people cannot agree on a common understanding of "learning object" - everyone wants to put a spin on it.
	elearningrandomwalk.blogspot.com /2006/01/not-invented-here.html (375 words)

	Department: Not Invented Here
		Stepping back for a moment to take in the broader view, we must ask ourselves just how much innovation the company has contributed to the technological commonweal.
		One well known fact: Microsoft has invented essentially none of the fundamental technologies underlying the computing revolution -- quite a remarkable feat for company of its size, wealth and influence.
		Another salient feature of this list is the number of times these acquisitions were colored with hostile overtones.
	www.vcnet.com /bms/departments/notinvented.html (495 words)

	In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome - Joel on Software
		Both are excellent ways to catch up on years of the drivel that appears here without going blind reading it on a tiny screen.
		The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome is considered a classic management pathology, in which a team refuses to use a technology that they didn't create themselves.
		People with NIH syndrome are obviously just being petty, refusing to do what's in the best interest of the overall organization because they can't find a way to take credit.
	www.joelonsoftware.com /articles/fog0000000007.html (1427 words)

	Articles - Not invented here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Apple´s long held single button mouse philosophy is arguably one example.
		Silicon Graphics was also heavily critized in the late 1990s for sticking with their proprietary operating system and CPUs when it was becoming clear that commodity x86 hardware had a better price-to-performance ratio.
		Many in the open source community have been accused of demonstrating the NIH syndrome as well.
	www.hailstone.biz /articles/Not_invented_here (478 words)

	Not Invented Here \| 2004-06-07 \| BitWorking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Here is a short form of Mark Pilgrim's Atom feed, and here is the same information with as many of the elements moved into equivalent namespaces for as many equivalents as I could find.
		I wish WebDAV had a core profile we could use directly in Atom, without inventing our own API.
		E.g., the core of WebDAV should be something like what the Atom API looks like at the moment, so we could just use it and easilly apply the other ornaments of WebDAV in the future.
	bitworking.org /news/Not_Invented_Here (1393 words)

	Apple Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The iPod, shown here, is one of Apple's most successful products.
		From a technical standpoint, Apple was also criticized for having a closed and proprietary architecture with the original Macintosh and refusing to adopt open standards; for many years a "Not Invented Here" (NIH) culture seemed to prevail.
		The iTunes Music Store continues this trend, utilizing a proprietary digital rights management system called FairPlay that requires burning and re-ripping a CD to place purchased songs on any digital audio player besides the iPod.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apple_Computer (6390 words)

	LASIK was not invented in Santa Monica
		This claim may be equated to a former presidential candidate claiming to have invented the internet.
		They could not let the dorks win so they came up with LASEK, then epi Lasik (soon there will be underlasik, then behind LASIK and then wonderLASIK).
		Perhaps we should say LASEK / LASIK surgery was invented right here in Santa Monica...
	www.khannainstitute.com /lasik_resources_invented.html (216 words)

	Definition: 'Not Invented Here' ?? - Ecademy
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	Not Invented Here (NIH) - popcorn.cx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		Today I came to the realisation that I am currently afflicted by NIH syndrome with respect to this very blog.
		Yesterday I was talking about how I was planning to modify this hacked together blog system in order to have more transparent URLs.
	popcorn.cx /blog/2005/03/11/not-invented-here-nih (131 words)

	Filtered: Microsoft's RSS dilemma: Not invented here
		But in reading this InfoWorld article by former CRN US journo Elizabeth Montalbano, reading between the lines you can almost hear Microsoft wrestling with its conscience.
		To paraphrase and put words in Microsoft's mouth: "RSS is great, but the trouble is we didn't invent it.
		Mark, I've been reading several blog posts relating to this and it seems Microsoft is using the term "Web Feeds" because they are referring to both RSS and Atom in IE7.
	filtered.typepad.com /markjones/2005/08/microsofts_rss_.html (328 words)

	Not Invented Here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A lot of companies want a creative culture, but not all of them want to do what it takes to have one.
		Naturally they don't lead the world when it comes to inventing successful, new-to-the-world products.
		So when they absolutely have to have new ideas, they panic.
	www.gocreate.com /Workouts/wx044.htm (284 words)

	Baseball Emerged Not Invented - NetShrine Discussion Forum
		Abner Doubleday, a West Point cadet, is largely credited with inventing the game in 1839 on a dirt field in Cooperstown, N.Y., now the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
		Historians recently have credited Alexander Cartwright, a New York bank clerk, and the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club with inventing many of the rules and using them for the first time in a game played at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, N.J., in 1846.
		The longer of the two articles discovered by Thompson appeared in The National Advocate, one of about eight daily newspapers in New York in 1823, the Times said.
	www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/showthread.php?t=471 (486 words)

	Lars Wirzenius: January, 2004
		Since I'm lazy, the gym will have to be close to where I live, and there are two near here.
		One is crowded by women in tights, sweating, and the other has a sales person who does MLM stuff on the side.
		The need to say thanks goes both ways here: if someone reports a bug, they should be credited in the ChangeLog (or other relevant place).
	liw.iki.fi /liw/log/2004-01.html (7480 words)

	Future Present » Not Invented Here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Posted in Emerging Ideas and Issues, Not Invented Here
		The current issue of Technology Review has a really solid discussion of the potential impact of Google’s Print Project on libraries, and frames it by looking at the role and purpose of libraries at great insitutions like Oxford’s Bodleian Library.
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	edcommunity.apple.com /adc/futurepresent?cat=6 (152 words)

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