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 Errol Arkilic, Catherine Ashcraft,
Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, W. Bernard Carlson, Lisa D. Cook, Humera
Fasihuddin, Maryann Feldman, Erik Fisher, Benoit Godin, Jenn
Gustetic, David Guston, Eric S. Hintz, Marie Stettler Kleine, Dutch
MacDonald, Mickey McManus, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Natalie Rusk,
Andrew L. Russell, Lucinda M. Sanders, Brenda Trinidad, Lee Vinsel,
Matthew Wisnioski
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