Does America Need More Innovators?

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dc.contributor.editorWisnioski, Matthewen
dc.contributor.editorHintz, Eric S.en
dc.contributor.editorKleine, Marie Stettleren
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-19T14:58:54Zen
dc.date.available2019-09-19T14:58:54Zen
dc.date.issued2019-04en
dc.description.abstractCorporate 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.en
dc.description.notesIncludes bibliographical references and index.en
dc.format.extent410 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.isbn9780262536738en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/93777en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMIT Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation Seriesen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subject.lccT21 .D637 2019en
dc.subject.lcshEngineering and state - United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshTechnological innovations - United Statesen
dc.titleDoes America Need More Innovators?en
dc.typeBooken
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