Does America need more innovators? - Wisnioski, Matthew H. 1978-; Hintz, Eric S.; Kleine, Marie Stettler (Cambridge, MA The MIT Press, 2019)
The innovator imperative / Matthew Wisnioski -- An innovator's movement / Humera Fasihuddin and Leticia Britos Cavagnaro -- Building high-performance teams for collaborative innovation / Mickey Mcmanus and Dutch Macdonald -- Raising the NSF innovation corps -- Making innovators, building regions -- Innovation for every American -- Introduction: critics -- How innovation evolved from a heretical act to a heroic imperative -- Failed inventor initiatives, from the Franklin Institute to Quirky -- Building global innovation hubs: the MIT model in three start-up universities -- The innovation gap in pink and blank -- Make maintainers: engineering education and an ethics of care -- Introduction: reformers -- Designing learning environments that engage young people as creators -- Using the past to make innovators -- Confronting the absence of women in technology innovation -- Making responsible innovators -- Remaking the innovator imperative.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Engineering and state -- United States; Technological innovations -- United States; Electronic books