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, Benoît 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
