Creating Innovation Leaders: A Global Perspective

✍ Scribed by Banny Banerjee, Stefano Ceri (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Series: Understanding Innovation
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the process of creating and educating innovation leaders through specialized programs, which are offered by leading academic schools. Accordingly, the book is divided into two parts. While the first part provides the theoretical foundations of why and how innovation leaders should be created, the second part presents evidence that these foundations can already be found in the programs of ten top-level universities.

Part one consists of six chapters following a rigorous plan of content development, addressing topics ranging from (1) innovation, to (2) the settings where innovation occurs, (3) innovation leadership, (4) the need to change education, (5) a taxonomy of advanced educational experiences, and (6) cases of positive vs negative innovation leadership in the context of complex problems. Here the authors show that a new kind of innovation leadership is urgently needed, how it can be created, and how it is put into action. The second part is a collection of invited chapters that describe in detail ten leading academic programs: their objectives, curricular organization, enrollment procedures, and impact on students. Selected programs include four North American institutions (Stanford’s d.school, Harvard’s Multidisciplinary Engineering Faculty, Philadelphia University, OCAD’s Master of Design on Strategic Foresight & Innovation), five European institutions (Alta Scuola Politecnica of Milano and Torino, the EIT Master Program, Paris’ d.school, Brighton’s Interdisciplinary Design Program, Aalto University) and the Mission D program at Tongji University in China.

The book is dedicated to all those who recognize the need to provide stimuli regarding innovation and innovation leadership, primarily but not exclusively in academia. These include, but are not limited to, professors, deans and provosts of academic institutions, managers at private organizations and government policy-makers – in short, anyone who

is engaged in promoting innovation within their own organization, and who feels the need to expand the intellectual and practical toolbox they use in this demanding and exciting endeavor.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Why Innovate?....Pages 3-24
The Innovation Ecosystem....Pages 25-51
Innovation Leadership: A New Kind of Leadership....Pages 53-80
A New Kind of University....Pages 81-103
Charting Interdisciplinary Innovation Programs: Map of Experiences....Pages 105-123
Innovation Leadership in Action –Today and in the Future....Pages 125-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Best Practices in Higher Education: An Introduction....Pages 145-148
Embedding Design Thinking in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Curriculum at Harvard University....Pages 149-162
Teaching the Innovation Methodology at the Stanford d.school....Pages 163-174
Reimagining a University for the 21st Century: The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering, and Commerce....Pages 175-186
The Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI) at OCAD University....Pages 187-200
Mission D, an Interdisciplinary Innovation and Venture Program at Tongji University....Pages 201-213
Alta Scuola Politecnica: Innovation, Multi-disciplinarity and Passion....Pages 215-225
The Paris d.school....Pages 227-237
Interdisciplinary Design in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Brighton....Pages 239-254
The EIT Digital Master School: A Program to Foster the Education of Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Creative Students....Pages 255-266
Making an Interdisciplinary Difference: Twenty Years of Design, Business and Technology at Aalto....Pages 267-277

✦ Subjects

Innovation/Technology Management; Curriculum Studies; Computers and Education; Business Strategy/Leadership; Entrepreneurship