Inside real innovation how the right approach can move ideas from R&D to market - and get the economy moving /

• Main Author: Fitzgerald, Eugene.
• Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
• Other Authors: Wankerl, Andreas, 1973-, Schramm, Carl.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2011.
• Subjects: Technological innovations.; Technological innovations > United States.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7985#t=toc

This breakthrough book gives a ground-floor view of the innovation process, showing how fundamental innovators really work. Then, it connects that knowledge to the bigger picture, explaining why the "innovation system" in the United States is failing to work as it once did, and what all pa...

Table of Contents:

• ch. 1. The innovation crisis
• ch. 2. Inside real innovation. A new model of the innovation process : The three basic elements. The iterative process. Two hypothetical cases. A diagrammatic view
• ch. 3. One person, one iteration at a time. A closer look at how the thinking works. Teams and environments
• ch. 4. Characteristics of fundamental innovation. The time-to-market delay. People and roles. The ecosystem
• ch. 5. The story of a fundamental innovation. Gene Fitzgerald's story : Strained silicon electronics
• ch. 6. The American innovation system. Early US innovation : The 'frontier'. Phases of the modern US innovation system : National focus on science and technology, circa 1930-1950. 'Innovation without competition' in the age of 'bureaucratic capitalism', circa 1950-1980. 'Innovation absorption' in the rise of 'entrepreneurial capitalism', circa 1980-2000. The breakdown of the US innovation system, circa 2000-present
• ch. 7. Building a new innovation system : The free market side. The free market side : Macro-requirements. The individual innovator. The free market investor. The corporation
• ch. 8. Building a new innovation system : The research and education side. Universities : The research mission. Universities : The education mission. The role of government.