Innovation: A Very Short Introduction

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What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed?

Innovation - the ways ideas are made valuable - makes an important contribution to economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue.

Not so long ago, there were no information technologies, commercial airlines, or television companies. Our parents were born into a world very different to today's, where television had yet to be invented, and there was no penicillin or frozen food. When our grandparents were born there were no internal combustion engines, aeroplanes, cinemas, or radios. In the last 150 years our world has been transformed - largely in part due to innovation.

This Very Short Introduction looks at what innovation is and why it affects us so profoundly. It examines how it occurs, who stimulates it, how it is pursued, and what its outcomes are, both positive and negative. Innovation is hugely challenging and failure is common, yet it is essential to our social and economic progress.

Mark Dodgson and David Gann consider the extent to which our understanding of innovation developed over the past century and how it might be used to interpret the global economy we all face in the future.

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Very interesting. It's very agreably to read this book, and it's a excellent material for my classes Technologic Innovation, for civil Engeniering.

Innovation is a sprawling literature but this book brings together the key ideas very well. For practitioners, a highlight is the informative case studies that show how some aspects of innovation are timeless (e.g the entrepreneurialism of Josiah Wedgewood) but others are being transformed by technologies that allow rapid prototyping and virtual collaboration. A highly recommended book from renowned experts in the field.

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This short introduction, however well-written on some subjects, has a serious defect: With the exception of some declarative remarks made apropos in the last pagers, the serious dangers of innovation and ways to prevent them are ignored. This weakness starts with lack of attention to the critical importance of warfare and military establishments in pushing innovation and continues with absence of treatment at most of the dangers to the future of humanity posed by capabilities to destroy itself supplied by innovations, other than repeating the manta on greenhouse gas emissions and "sustainability".
There is a growing literature on the dangers of innovations in biotechnology, robotics, nanotechnologies and more. Thus, to give just one example, the debate is hot on human enhancement as increasingly enabled by science and technology innovations. Just imagine that a process costing, say, one million dollars will increase life expectancy to 120 years.
Humanity faces harsh issues of regulating innovation and its uses. These in turn lead to power aspects of innovation, ignored in the book. Trusting markets, self-regulation and "good will" to do the job is a dangerous illusion, new forms of rigorous controls becoming increasingly necessary.
All this problematic is not discussed in the book, seriously impairing its validity and usefulness.
Professor Yehezkel Dror
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

If you want to know about innovation, read this book! Full of insights and explanations, the perfect very short introduction....

Good general review of the subject

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