| Does America Need More Innovators? Contributor(s): Wisnioski, Matthew (Editor), Hintz, Eric S. (Editor), Kleine, Marie Stettler (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262536730 ISBN-13: 9780262536738 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| Dewey: 338.973 |
| LCCN: 2018034415 |
| Series: Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.25 lbs) 410 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Contributors |
Contributor Bio(s): Godin, Benoit: - Benoît Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.Guston, David H.: - David Guston is Professor and Founding Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, where he also serves as Codirector of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes..Bedi, Joyce: - Joyce Bedi is Senior Historian at the Smithsonian Institution's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.Hintz, Eric S.: - Eric S. Hintz is Historian at the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History.Kleine, Marie Stettler: - Marie Stettler Kleine is a PhD candidate in Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.Wisnioski, Matthew: - Matthew Wisnioski is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (MIT Press).Wisnioski, Matthew: - Matthew Wisnioski is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (MIT Press).Molella, Arthur P.: - Arthur P. Molella is Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center. He is the co-editor (with Joyce Bedi) of Inventing for the Environment (2003, MIT Press). |