Edison And The Business Of Innovation

Author : André Millard
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801847301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edison and the Business of Innovation written by André Millard and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison—not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision. From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues.

Author : Michael Gelb
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780525950318
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovate Like Edison written by Michael Gelb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a guide to the creative strategies used by Thomas Edison, counseling inventors and entrepreneurs on how to use these steps to find success in the modern business market.

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780470231395
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edison on Innovation written by Alan Axelrod and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating exploration of one of the most celebrated and innovative minds, best-selling author Alan Axelrod cuts through the myths and reverence surrounding Edison’s “genius” to show how the inventor was, in fact, an ordinary man who created extraordinary work. While many of us believe that creativity, like genius, is something that just happens by chance or destiny, Edison’s life demonstrates that creativity of the very highest order can indeed be summoned up at will, and even reduced to a reliable working method and set of principles.

Author : Leonard DeGraaf
Publisher : Sterling Signature
ISBN 13 : 9781402767364
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edison and the Rise of Innovation written by Leonard DeGraaf and published by Sterling Signature. This book was released on 2013 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and work of the inventor through primary and previously unseen sources, including personal and business correspondence, photographs, drawings, advertising materials, and lab notebooks.

Author : A. J. Millard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edison and the Business of Innovation written by A. J. Millard and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Edison, the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories.

Author : Ian Wills
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030299406
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure written by Ian Wills and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison's active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to his success. From this the author argues that not only should we expect innovations to fail but that there are good reasons to want them to fail. Using Edison's laboratory notebooks, written as he worked and before he knew the outcome we see the many false starts, wrong directions and failures that he worked through on his way to producing revolutionary inventions. While Edison's strengths in exploiting failure made him the icon of American inventors, they could also be liabilities when he moved from one field to another. Not only is this book of value to readers with an interest in the history of technology and American invention, its insights are important to those who seek to innovate and to those who employ and finance them.

Author : Mark Dodgson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199568901
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation: A Very Short Introduction written by Mark Dodgson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how innovation is used to create wealth, productivity growth, and improved quality of life

Author : Jeff Dyer
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1633696537
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation Capital written by Jeff Dyer and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn from the Best Great leaders of innovation know that creativity is not enough. They succeed not only on the basis of their ideas, but because they have the vision, reputation, and networks to win the backing needed to commercialize them. It turns out that this quality--called "innovation capital"--is measurably more important for innovation than just being creative. The authors have spent decades studying how people get great ideas (the subject of The Innovator's DNA) and how people test and develop those ideas (explored in The Innovator's Method). Now they share what they've learned from a multipronged research program designed to determine how people compete for, and obtain, resources to launch new ideas: How you can build a personal reputation for innovation What techniques you can use to amplify your innovation capital How you can garner attention for your ideas and projects and persuade audiences to support them What it means to provide visionary leadership and how you can achieve it Featuring interviews with the superstars of innovation--individuals like Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Elon Musk (Tesla), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo), and Shantanu Narayen (Adobe)--this book will help you position yourself and your ideas to compete for attention and resources so that you can launch innovations with impact.

Author : Andrew Hargadon
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 9781578519040
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Breakthroughs Happen written by Andrew Hargadon and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling the myth that innovation is invention & revolution, this text argues that innovators past & present have employed a strategy of technology brokering to source, develop & exploit new ideas. It provides a clear set of recommendations for managing the innovation process in organizations.

Author : Michael J. Gelb
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101213809
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovate Like Edison written by Michael J. Gelb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Sarah Miller Caldicott's posts on the Penguin Blog. Michael J. Gelb, author of the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, and Sarah Miller Caldicott, a descendant of Thomas Edison, introduce a revolutionary new system for successful innovation. Bestselling author Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott introduce a carefully researched, easy-to-apply system of the five success secrets inspired by the creative methods of Thomas Alva Edison. The greatest innovator in American history, Edison set the stage for America’s global leadership in innovation by his focus on practical accomplishment. Now Gelb and Caldicott apply the best practices of this American genius to contemporary business situations to help today’s leaders harness their own innovative potential. Innovate Like Edison is a blueprint for success that will enable executives and entrepreneurs to revitalize their own ingenuity and thrive in today’s culture of innovation.