Breakthrough

Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation

Mark Stefik, Barbara Stefik

304 pages, parution le 30/10/2004

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Résumé

Since the late 1990s, technology markets have declined dramatically. Responding to the changing business climate, companies use strategies of open innovation: acquiring technologies from outside, marketing their technologies to other companies, and outsourcing manufacturing. But open innovation is not enough; it is mainly a way to run a business to its endgame. By itself, open innovation results in razor-thin profits from products that compete as commodities. Businesses also need a path to renewal. No one ever achieved a breakthrough with open innovation.

A breakthrough creates something new or satisfies a previously undiscovered need. Radical breakthroughs often have uses and effects far beyond what their inventors had in mind. Breakthroughs can launch new industries or transform existing ones. Our capacity for creating breakthroughs depends on a combination of science, imagination, and business; the next great waves of innovation will come from organizations that get this combination right.

During periods of rapid economic growth, companies and investors focus on the short term and forget where breakthroughs come from. Without appropriate engagement and reinvestment, the innovation ecology breaks down. Today, universities, technology companies, government funding agencies, venture capitalists, and corporate research laboratories need to foster the conditions in which breakthroughs arise.

In Breakthrough, Mark and Barbara Stefik show us how innovation works. Drawing on stories from repeat inventors and managers of technology, they uncover the best practices for inventing the future. This book is for readers who want to know how inventors do their work, how people become inventors, and how businesses can create powerful cultures of innovation.

L'auteur - Mark Stefik

Mark Stefik in an inventor and Research Fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he directs the Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory.

L'auteur - Barbara Stefik

Barbara Stefik has a doctorate in transpersonal psychology. She is in private practice and helps people to overcome creative blocks.

Sommaire

Invention and Innovation
- The Breakthrough Dilemmas
- The Dance of the Two Questions
- Invention: Seeing Differently
- Innovation: The Long Road
Fostering Invention
- Mentoring and Apprenticeship
- The Prepared Mind and the Aha! Moment
- The Beginner's Mind and Play
- Walking in the Dark
Fostering Innovation
- Innovative Research Groups
- Obstacles to Radical Innovation
- Cultures of Innovation
- Innovation at the Crossroads

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Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Mark Stefik, Barbara Stefik
Parution	30/10/2004
Nb. de pages	304
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	540g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262195140