Breakthrough! : stories and strategies of radical innovation
- Title
- Breakthrough! : stories and strategies of radical innovation / Mark Stefik and Barbara Stefik.
- Published by
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
- Author
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- Description
- xiii, 294 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Stefik and Stefik decry the recent reliance on open innovation, where businesses purchase technologies from outside, market their technologies to other companies, and subsequently outsource manufacturing. They claim that it leads to a breakdown in the innovation ecology, creating fewer true transformations and razor-thin profit margins. Instead they advocate innovations that depend on a combination of science, imagination, and business.
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. The breakthrough dilemmas -- 2. The dance of the two questions -- 3. Invention : seeing differently -- 4. Innovation : the long road -- 5. Mentoring and apprenticeship -- 6. The prepared mind and the aha! moment -- 7. The beginner's mind and play -- 8. Walking in the dark -- 9. Innovative research groups -- 10. Obstacles to radical innovation -- 11. Cultures of innovation -- 12. Innovation at the crossroads.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-290) and index.