Description |
1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Ch. 1. The innovation crisis -- ch. 2. Inside real innovation. A new model of the innovation process : The three basic elements. The iterative process. Two hypothetical cases. A diagrammatic view -- ch. 3. One person, one iteration at a time. A closer look at how the thinking works. Teams and environments -- ch. 4. Characteristics of fundamental innovation. The time-to-market delay. People and roles. The ecosystem -- ch. 5. The story of a fundamental innovation. Gene Fitzgerald's story : Strained silicon electronics -- ch. 6. The American innovation system. Early US innovation : The 'frontier'. Phases of the modern US innovation system : National focus on science and technology, circa 1930-1950. 'Innovation without competition' in the age of 'bureaucratic capitalism', circa 1950-1980. 'Innovation absorption' in the rise of 'entrepreneurial capitalism', circa 1980-2000. The breakdown of the US innovation system, circa 2000-present -- ch. 7. Building a new innovation system : The free market side. The free market side : Macro-requirements. The individual innovator. The free market investor. The corporation -- ch. 8. Building a new innovation system : The research and education side. Universities : The research mission. Universities : The education mission. The role of government |
Summary |
This break-through innovation book gives a 'ground-floor' view of the innovation process. It is written by practitioners of innovation, whose expertise scales from universities to start-ups to corporations and governments, allowing the authors to avoid the usual high-level-only descriptions of generic innovation. Organized in three parts, the first part develops the detailed iterative innovation process and debunks the widely held concept of linear innovation (research->development->product) as the actual innovation process. With the reader armed with the true innovation process, the second pa |
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Subject |
Technological innovations.
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Technological innovations -- United States
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology.
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Technological innovations
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United States
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Electronic book
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Author |
Wankerl, Andreas, 1973-
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Schramm, Carl J
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ISBN |
9789814327992 |
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9814327999 |
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9786613145239 |
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6613145238 |
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1283145235 |
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9781283145237 |
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