Every American an innovator : how innovation became a way of life.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wisnioski, Matthew H., 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2025

Summary:

A landmark cultural history that reveals how the relentless pursuit of innovation has transformed our society, our institutions, and our inner selves. For half a century, innovation served as a universal good in an age of fracture. That consensus is cracking. While the imperative to innovate for a better future continues to fuel systemic change around the world, critics now assail innovation culture as an engine of inequality or accuse its do-gooders of woke groupthink. What happened Drawing on a decade of research, Every American an Innovator by Matthew Wisnioski investigates how a once obscure academic term became ingrained in our institutions, our education, and our beliefs about ourselves. Wisnioski argues that innovation culture did not spring from the digital revolution, nor can it be boiled down to heroic entrepreneurs or villainous capitalists. Instead, he reveals the central role of a new class of experts in spreading toolkits and mindsets from the cornfields of 1940s Iowa to Silicon Valley tech giants today.

Contents:

Make Things Better

Part I: Seedlings and Incubators

When Innovation Was New

A Nation of Innovators

Be an Innovation Millionaire!

Incubating Entrepreneurs

Part II: Deficits and Dreams

Creative Class Consciousness

Empower Everything

Lifelong Kindergarten

Part III: Self Reckoning

Innovators on Trial

Expert Lessons.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262381079

0262381079

OCLC:

1467023834