Creating Innovators

IN THIS GROUNDBREAKING BOOK, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develo

A Harvard Graduate School education expert reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they

Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators is a collection of informative, and sometimes quirky, stories about Lone Star innovators, inventors and inventions. Each story emphasizes

In presenting case studies of past and present innovators and his own computer industry experience of the non-textbook reality of creating new ideas, Hargadon (technology management, U. of California,

With numerous illustrations, this volume guides readers through both the components and the overall process of Innovators’ Marketplace, a game-based business innovation learning tool that allows playe

Moving, funny, and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell stories from the early years of a diverse group of innovators like Grace Hopper, Reshma Saujani, Jacques Coustea

An inspiring children’s biography collection, Immigrant Innovators: 30 Entrepreneurs Who Made a Difference highlights the stories of 30 immigrant entrepreneurs who have made it big in America, in fiel

Today's workplace demands creative thinking and innovative solutions. Organizational Creativity: A Practical Guide for Innovators and Entrepreneurs by Gerard J. Puccio, John F. Cabra, and Nathan Schwa

This book features twenty in-depth, candid interviews with notable female tech innovators and entrepreneurs. Interviewees include female CEOs, founders, pioneers, and inventors from a wide spectrum o

Creative Space looks at 30 homes, from New York to Tokyo, via London and Paris, of the designers, directors, stylists, artists, graffiti writers, curators, novelists, and innovators who are pushing t

Want to know how creative people innovate? This book gives you models and practices that you can use with your team to help you be the innovators of your organisation.Organisations are growing in a co

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimedThe Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atla

Small Firms as Innovators: From Innovation to Sustainable Growth provides a rich empirical analysis of innovation in the context of small business. The book first introduces the general innovation pat

Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators is a resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and program developers that illuminates creative, cutting edge ways to ins

Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators is a resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and program developers that illuminates creative, cutting edge ways to ins

Tomorrow’s Innovators: Essential Skills For A Changing World focuses on approaches and methods to help teachers infuse their basic subject matter lessons with creativity, innovation, and adaptability.

Tomorrow’s Innovators: Essential Skills For A Changing World focuses on approaches and methods to help teachers infuse their basic subject matter lessons with creativity, innovation, and adaptability.

Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms zeros in on the cutting-edge thinkers who repeatedly create and deliver breakthrough innovations and new

Profiles in Operations Research: Pioneers and Innovators recounts the development of the field of Operations Research (OR), the science of decision making. The book traces the development of OR from i

Focusing on music innovators, this book contains interviews with 41 jazz artists who discuss their ideas about music, gender, audiences, composition and inspiration, musical and social influences, phi

How do technology innovators, business executives, and venture capitalists manage thetechnical elements of business risk when developing and launching new products? Overcoming technicalrisks requires

Seven business innovators and the empires they built. The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and

The American museum was not born, but made. Visionary museum innovators transformed the private curiosity collections of the 19th century into today's public institutions of education. The Museum in

Look no further than this collection of the biggest, oldest, most amazing artworks throughout history. All over the world, since Prehistoric times, human beings have been creating works of art that defy the imagination. Join countless painters, sculptors, and other artistic innovators in their quest for grandeur and beauty, and embark on a global journey to discover their most awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Amazing Art Records is an original and fun way to explore the history of art and human creative expression.

This book is aimed at the innovators who drive the advances from which we all benefit. This includes scientists, engineers, technicians, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to financially benef

Creating Stylized Characters gives readers a valuable insight into the popular art of character design. Professional illustrators, animators and cartoonists, well versed in creating characters for vid

From historical figures such as Marie Curie to contemporaries such as Steve Jobs, a handful of innovators have changed the world. What made them so spectacularly inventive?

This indispensable guide brings together an eclectic mix of industry innovators and experts to show how you can bring the world of coding to your primary school practice. Just like learning to play an

This indispensable guide brings together an eclectic mix of industry innovators and experts to show how you can bring the world of coding to your primary school practice. Just like learning to play an

Innovation can take you from failure to success, but if you need a helping hand then Think Like An Innovator can help you. With over 70 different leaders, innovators and business people, each covere

Inspired by Ayn Rand's characters in Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, penetrating profiles of both the innovators who move our world forward and those who seek to destroy the achievement of others

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histor

This insightful book looks at the phenomenon of low-cost innovation and explores what we can learn from the innovators in developing nations who are making amazing technical and social advances with s

A fascinating exploration of America’s food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan’s bestselling Omnivore’s DilemmaChange C

Practical guidance on how to empower people to do their best. Filled with stories by and fascinating interviews with human capital innovators, Making a Difference Through People provides practical gu

Creating Outdoor Rooms shares ideas for creating comfortable, yet elegant, Southern-influenced garden rooms anywhere in the world. In her first book, Marting reveals how to use today's broad range of

How the global financial services sector has been transformed by artificial intelligence, data science, and blockchain. Artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, and other new technologies have upended the global financial services sector, creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. Venture capitalists have helped to fund this disruption, pouring nearly $500 billion into fintech over the last five years. This book offers global perspectives on technology-fueled transformations in financial services, with contributions from a wide-ranging group of academics, industry professionals, former government officials, and current government advisors. They examine not only the struggles of rich countries to bring the old analog world into the new digital one but also the opportunities for developing countries to “leapfrog” directly into digital. The book offers accessible explanations of blockchain and distributed ledger technology and explores big data analytics

An entertaining, eye-opening account of the extraordinary team of innovators who discovered the laws of thermodynamics essential to understanding the world todayfrom refrigeration and jet engines to c

For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression – but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative

For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression – but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative