Does America need more innovators? / edited by Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine.
2019
T21 .D637 2019eb
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Title
Does America need more innovators? / edited by Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine.
ISBN
9780262352598 (electronic bk.)
0262352591 (electronic bk.)
9780262536738
0262536730
0262352591 (electronic bk.)
9780262536738
0262536730
Published
Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (410 pages).
Call Number
T21 .D637 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.973/06
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.
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Added Author
Wisnioski, Matthew H., 1978- editor.
Hintz, Eric S., editor.
Kleine, Marie Stettler, editor.
Hintz, Eric S., editor.
Kleine, Marie Stettler, editor.
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