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Innovation : a very short introduction /

"What is innovation? How important is innovation in business? How can we use it to succeed? In the last 150 years our world has been transformed - largely due to innovation. Our parents were born into a world where television had yet to be invented, and there was no penicillin or frozen food. O...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dodgson, Mark, 1957-
Other Authors: Gann, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Very short introductions.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Josiah Wedgwood: the world's greatest innovator
  • 2. Joseph Schumpeter's gales of creative destruction
  • 3. London's wobbly bridge: learning from failure
  • 4. Stephanie Kwolek's new polymer: from labs to riches
  • 5. Thomas Edison's organizational genius
  • 6. Building a smarter planet?