| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 399 pages) |
| Series |
Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation |
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Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
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| Contents |
The innovator imperative / Matthew Wisnioski -- Introduction -- An innovators' movement / Humera Fasihuddin and Leticia Britos Cavagnaro -- Building high-performance teams for collaborative innovation / Mickey McManus and Dutch MacDonald -- Raising the NSF innovation corps / Errol Arkilic -- Making innovators, building regions / Maryann Feldman -- Innovation for every American / Jenn Gustetic -- Introduction -- How innovation evolved from a heretical act to a heroic imperative / Benoît Godin -- Failed inventor initiatives, from the Franklin institute to quirky / Eric S. Hintz -- Building global innovation hubs: The MIT model in three start-up universities / Sebastian Pfotenhauer -- The innovation gap in pink and black / Lisa D. Cook -- Make maintainers: engineering education and an ethics of care / Andrew L. Russell and Lee Vinsel -- Introduction -- Designing learning environments that engage young people as creators / Natalie Rusk -- Using the past to make innovators / W. Bernard Carlson -- Confronting the absence of women in technology innovation / Lucinda M. Sanders and Catherine Ashcraft -- Making responsible innovators / Erik Fisher, David Guston, and Brenda Trinidad -- Remaking the innovator imperative / Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine |
| Summary |
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation. Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree--Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards. Meanwhile, reformers work to make the training of innovators more inclusive and the outcomes of innovation more responsible. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation's champions, critics, and reformers in conversation. The book presents an overview of innovator training, exploring the history, motivations, and philosophies of programs in private industry, universities, and government; offers a primer on critical innovation studies, with essays that historicize, contextualize, and problematize the drive to create innovators; and considers initiatives that seek to reform and reshape what it means to be an innovator |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Engineering and state -- United States
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Technological innovations -- United States
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Engineering and state
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Technological innovations
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wisnioski, Matthew H., 1978- editor.
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Hintz, Eric S., editor.
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Kleine, Marie Stettler, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780262352598 |
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0262352591 |
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