Every American an innovator : how innovation became a way of life.
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- Language:
- English
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- OCLC:
- 1467023834
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