Does America Need More Innovators?

<b>A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate by champions critics and reformers of innovation.</b><p>Corporate executives politicians and school board leaders agree--Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices personal habits and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness the lack of diversity among innovators and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards. Meanwhile reformers work to make the training of innovators more inclusive and the outcomes of innovation more responsible. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation's champions critics and reformers in conversation. </p><p>The book presents an overview of innovator training exploring the history motivations and philosophies of programs in private industry universities and government; offers a primer on critical innovation studies with essays that historicize contextualize and problematize the drive to create innovators; and considers initiatives that seek to reform and reshape what it means to be an innovator.</p><p><b>Contributors<br></b>Errol Arkilic Catherine Ashcraft Leticia Britos Cavagnaro W. Bernard Carlson Lisa D. Cook Humera Fasihuddin Maryann Feldman Erik Fisher Benoît Godin Jenn Gustetic David Guston Eric S. Hintz Marie Stettler Kleine Dutch MacDonald Mickey McManus Sebastian Pfotenhauer Natalie Rusk Andrew L. Russell Lucinda M. Sanders Brenda Trinidad Lee Vinsel Matthew Wisnioski<br></p>