Does America need more innovators? / Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine. editors.
| Other author | Wisnioski, Matthew H., 1978- |
| Other author | Hintz, Eric S. |
| Other author | Kleine, Marie Stettler. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2019] |
| Description | vi, 399 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Series | Lemelson center studies in invention and innovation series |
| Incomplete content | The innovator imperative / Matthew Wisnioski -- An innovator's movement / Humera Fasihuddin and Leticia Britos Cavagnaro -- Building high-performance teams for collaborative innovation / Mickey Mcmanus and Dutch Macdonald. |
| Abstract | "This volume brings together policymakers, design executives, historians, ethnographers, social critics, and educators to have a conversation about this imperative, its history, its present, and its future. Contributions ask themselves and one another: Why did programs for making innovators emerge? How have they evolved? What is their track record? What are their collective assumptions and shortcomings? How might they be improved? And, what does the future hold for them? While numerous prior works have investigated innovation, this volume emphasizes innovators and how they are made. The focus on innovators is especially valuable because it is through the initiatives documented in this volume that the motivations, values, and best practices of innovation are crafted, adopted, and spread. The volume is organized into three sections according to the contributors' practices and commitments. To establish a common understanding of what drives their different perspectives on innovation, each section begins with a brief essay that introduces and analyzes the shared assumptions, strengths, and limitations of that section's contributors. Section I, Champions, is a tour of innovator training today. Section II, Critics, offers a primer on critical innovation studies. Section II, Reformers, is an introduction to initiatives that seek to reshape what it means to be an innovator, from programs for supporting children's self-directed discovery to organizations that target discrimination in high technology industries. The volume concludes with a call for reconsidering America's demand for more innovators. The US may be well aware of what is necessary to innovate, but this volume asks why, for what, and by whom, and demonstrates that the answers are neither simple nor uniform"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018034415 |
| ISBN | 9780262536738 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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