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🏭 Industrial Innovation

Accounts of the breakthroughs — mechanical, chemical, organizational — that revolutionized how things are made, and the visionaries and tinkerers who drove them.
The Entrepreneurial State
by Mariana Mazzucato • 2011
The state funded the tech inside every iPhone. The private sector took the credit.
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3k+
🏛️ Innovation Policy🧬 Technology History💰 Public Funding
The Entrepreneurial State Summary
The Entrepreneurial State 92%
The state funded the tech inside every iPhone. The private sector took the credit.
by Mariana Mazzucato 2011
3.94
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Innovation Policy🧬 Technology History💰 Public Funding
Entrepreneurial Nation
by Ro Khanna • 2012
Six times more productive: America's factory floor still beats China's, but policy hasn't caught up.
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30
🏭 American Manufacturing🏛️ Industrial Policy⚙️ Innovation Policy
Entrepreneurial Nation Summary
Entrepreneurial Nation 91%
Six times more productive: America's factory floor still beats China's, but policy hasn't caught up.
by Ro Khanna 2012
3.73
30 ratings
🏭 American Manufacturing🏛️ Industrial Policy⚙️ Innovation Policy
Democratizing Innovation
by Eric von Hippel • 2005
Innovation's hidden engine isn't corporate R&D. It's users, and companies that ignore them lose out.
3.62
617
👥 User Innovation🔓 Open Innovation📈 Innovation Economics
Democratizing Innovation Summary
Democratizing Innovation 91%
Innovation's hidden engine isn't corporate R&D. It's users, and companies that ignore them lose out.
by Eric von Hippel 2005
3.62
617 ratings
👥 User Innovation🔓 Open Innovation📈 Innovation Economics
Strategic Management of Technological Innovation
by Melissa A. Schilling • 2000
Where breakthroughs originate, when to jump in, and why sharing tech sometimes beats protecting it.
3.83
236
🔄 Innovation Management📊 Technology Adoption🔬 R&D Management
Strategic Management of Technological Innovation Summary
Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 91%
Where breakthroughs originate, when to jump in, and why sharing tech sometimes beats protecting it.
by Melissa A. Schilling 2000
3.83
236 ratings
🔄 Innovation Management📊 Technology Adoption🔬 R&D Management
How Innovation Works
by Matt Ridley • 2020
Not lone geniuses but slow, collective tinkering, freedom, and accident drive real innovation.
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4k+
🧬 Evolutionary Economics🔧 History Of Technology🧪 Trial And Error
How Innovation Works Summary
How Innovation Works 91%
Not lone geniuses but slow, collective tinkering, freedom, and accident drive real innovation.
by Matt Ridley 2020
4.11
4k+ ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Economics🔧 History Of Technology🧪 Trial And Error
The Idea Factory
by Jon Gertner • 2012
A phone monopoly's lab produced the transistor, the laser, and the digital age. How it worked.
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🏭 Innovation History🏢 Corporate History💡 Invention Stories
The Idea Factory Summary
The Idea Factory 91%
A phone monopoly's lab produced the transistor, the laser, and the digital age. How it worked.
by Jon Gertner 2012
4.21
9k+ ratings
🏭 Innovation History🏢 Corporate History💡 Invention Stories
The Innovator's Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen • 1997
Good management blinds firms to the cheaper, simpler technologies that eventually replace them.
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🖥️ Technology Strategy🏢 Corporate Innovation🔄 Industry Evolution
The Innovator's Dilemma Summary
The Innovator's Dilemma 91%
Good management blinds firms to the cheaper, simpler technologies that eventually replace them.
by Clayton M. Christensen 1997
4.04
61k+ ratings
🖥️ Technology Strategy🏢 Corporate Innovation🔄 Industry Evolution
The Nature of Technology
by W. Brian Arthur • 2009
Technology is nature harnessed, then endlessly recombined. Each invention fuels the next.
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858
🏛️ Philosophy Of Technology💡 Innovation Theory🌀 Complexity Science
The Nature of Technology Summary
The Nature of Technology 91%
Technology is nature harnessed, then endlessly recombined. Each invention fuels the next.
by W. Brian Arthur 2009
3.95
858 ratings
🏛️ Philosophy Of Technology💡 Innovation Theory🌀 Complexity Science
The Gifts of Athena
by Joel Mokyr • 2002
The modern economy runs on a feedback loop between understanding nature and manipulating it.
4.02
136
📈 Economic History🔧 History Of Technology🧠 Knowledge Economies
The Gifts of Athena Summary
The Gifts of Athena 91%
The modern economy runs on a feedback loop between understanding nature and manipulating it.
by Joel Mokyr 2002
4.02
136 ratings
📈 Economic History🔧 History Of Technology🧠 Knowledge Economies
Open Innovation
by Henry Chesbrough • 2003
The old R&D model is dead. Ideas come from everywhere. Companies that don't open won't survive.
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🔧 Innovation Management🧩 Business Model Design📜 Intellectual Property Strategy
Open Innovation Summary
Open Innovation 91%
The old R&D model is dead. Ideas come from everywhere. Companies that don't open won't survive.
by Henry Chesbrough 2003
3.87
303 ratings
🔧 Innovation Management🧩 Business Model Design📜 Intellectual Property Strategy
The Perfectionists
by Simon Winchester • 2018
From cylinders to microchips: the hidden pursuit of perfect smoothness that built the modern world.
4.15
7k+
🔧 History Of Technology🏭 Industrial Revolution🔍 Microhistory
The Perfectionists Summary
The Perfectionists 91%
From cylinders to microchips: the hidden pursuit of perfect smoothness that built the modern world.
by Simon Winchester 2018
4.15
7k+ ratings
🔧 History Of Technology🏭 Industrial Revolution🔍 Microhistory
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
by Tim Harford • 2017
Fifty inventions, from barbed wire to infant formula, and the economic ripples nobody saw coming.
4.06
4k+
📜 Economic History💡 Innovation Economics🔧 Technological History
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy Summary
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy 91%
Fifty inventions, from barbed wire to infant formula, and the economic ripples nobody saw coming.
by Tim Harford 2017
4.06
4k+ ratings
📜 Economic History💡 Innovation Economics🔧 Technological History
Open Innovation Results
by Henry Chesbrough • 2019
Breakthrough tech, stalled productivity. Open innovation's architect explains what must change.
4.09
46
🌀 Open Innovation📉 Productivity Paradox🏢 Corporate Innovation
Open Innovation Results Summary
Open Innovation Results 91%
Breakthrough tech, stalled productivity. Open innovation's architect explains what must change.
by Henry Chesbrough 2019
4.09
46 ratings
🌀 Open Innovation📉 Productivity Paradox🏢 Corporate Innovation
What To Do When Machines Do Everything
by Malcolm Frank • 2017
12% of jobs vanish, 75% transform. AI's future is a build-out, not a takeover.
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509
⚙️ Digital Transformation🏭 Industry 4.0🤖 Ai In Business
What To Do When Machines Do Everything Summary
What To Do When Machines Do Everything 91%
12% of jobs vanish, 75% transform. AI's future is a build-out, not a takeover.
by Malcolm Frank 2017
3.56
509 ratings
⚙️ Digital Transformation🏭 Industry 4.0🤖 Ai In Business
The Evolution of Useful Things
by Henry Petroski • 1994
Annoyance, not function, gave us forks, zippers, paper clips. The real driver of everyday design.
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🏭 Industrial Design🥄 Everyday Objects🔄 Design Evolution
The Evolution of Useful Things Summary
The Evolution of Useful Things 91%
Annoyance, not function, gave us forks, zippers, paper clips. The real driver of everyday design.
by Henry Petroski 1994
3.52
1k+ ratings
🏭 Industrial Design🥄 Everyday Objects🔄 Design Evolution
Mapping Innovation
by Greg Satell • 2017
Not every innovation problem needs disruption. The map for picking the strategy yours does.
3.90
240
🏢 Corporate Innovation🗺️ Innovation Strategy💥 Disruptive Innovation
Mapping Innovation Summary
Mapping Innovation 91%
Not every innovation problem needs disruption. The map for picking the strategy yours does.
by Greg Satell 2017
3.90
240 ratings
🏢 Corporate Innovation🗺️ Innovation Strategy💥 Disruptive Innovation
The Business Model Navigator
by Oliver Gassmann • 2013
Nearly every breakthrough business model remixes the same 55 patterns. A method for finding yours.
4.10
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🏗️ Business Model Innovation🏢 Corporate Innovation🔧 Innovation Frameworks
The Business Model Navigator Summary
The Business Model Navigator 90%
Nearly every breakthrough business model remixes the same 55 patterns. A method for finding yours.
by Oliver Gassmann 2013
4.10
455 ratings
🏗️ Business Model Innovation🏢 Corporate Innovation🔧 Innovation Frameworks
Mission Economy
by Mariana Mazzucato • 2020
State-led missions built the internet and GPS; now turn that force on climate and inequality.
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3k+
💡 Innovation Economics🏛️ Public Sector Reform🏭 Industrial Policy
Mission Economy Summary
Mission Economy 90%
State-led missions built the internet and GPS; now turn that force on climate and inequality.
by Mariana Mazzucato 2020
3.85
3k+ ratings
💡 Innovation Economics🏛️ Public Sector Reform🏭 Industrial Policy
Jump-Starting America
by Jonathan Gruber • 2019
Public science built the middle class. We cut R&D by two-thirds. China noticed.
4.07
334
🔬 Science Policy💡 Innovation Economics🏙️ Technology Hubs
Jump-Starting America Summary
Jump-Starting America 90%
Public science built the middle class. We cut R&D by two-thirds. China noticed.
by Jonathan Gruber 2019
4.07
334 ratings
🔬 Science Policy💡 Innovation Economics🏙️ Technology Hubs
Innovation
by Mark Dodgson • 2010
Most innovations fail, and the pattern of those failures is not a bug but a design feature.
3.28
190
📚 Innovation Studies🔄 Organizational Change🤖 Technology And Society
Innovation Summary
Innovation 90%
Most innovations fail, and the pattern of those failures is not a bug but a design feature.
by Mark Dodgson 2010
3.28
190 ratings
📚 Innovation Studies🔄 Organizational Change🤖 Technology And Society
The Innovator's Solut!on
by Clayton M. Christensen • 2003
The exact playbook for making your next growth initiative a 37% winner, not a 6% also-ran.
4.06
14k+
🌀 Disruptive Innovation🧭 Innovation Strategy👁️ Customer Insight
The Innovator's Solut!on Summary
The Innovator's Solut!on 90%
The exact playbook for making your next growth initiative a 37% winner, not a 6% also-ran.
by Clayton M. Christensen 2003
4.06
14k+ ratings
🌀 Disruptive Innovation🧭 Innovation Strategy👁️ Customer Insight
The Pencil
by Henry Petroski • 1992
A pencil hides centuries of engineering failures, global trade, and the secret to good design.
3.80
657
🏭 History Of Technology🏺 Material Culture⚙️ Engineering Design
The Pencil Summary
The Pencil 90%
A pencil hides centuries of engineering failures, global trade, and the secret to good design.
by Henry Petroski 1992
3.80
657 ratings
🏭 History Of Technology🏺 Material Culture⚙️ Engineering Design
Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson • 2010
Breakthroughs come from networks, borrowed parts, and gradual insights, not lone geniuses.
3.99
16k+
🧩 Innovation Theory🕸️ Network Theory🍀 Serendipity
Where Good Ideas Come From Summary
Where Good Ideas Come From 90%
Breakthroughs come from networks, borrowed parts, and gradual insights, not lone geniuses.
by Steven Johnson 2010
3.99
16k+ ratings
🧩 Innovation Theory🕸️ Network Theory🍀 Serendipity
Disruptive Innovation
by Clayton M. Christensen • 2011
Leaders fall not to better products, but to simpler, cheaper ones their best customers rejected.
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🏢 Corporate Innovation🎯 Innovation Strategy🔒 Organizational Inertia
Disruptive Innovation Summary
Disruptive Innovation 90%
Leaders fall not to better products, but to simpler, cheaper ones their best customers rejected.
by Clayton M. Christensen 2011
4.46
67 ratings
🏢 Corporate Innovation🎯 Innovation Strategy🔒 Organizational Inertia
Digital to the Core
by Mark Raskino • 2015
Every industry is becoming a tech industry. The C-suite playbook just expired.
3.81
242
🖥️ Digital Transformation🔄 Organizational Change🧭 Digital Leadership
Digital to the Core Summary
Digital to the Core 90%
Every industry is becoming a tech industry. The C-suite playbook just expired.
by Mark Raskino 2015
3.81
242 ratings
🖥️ Digital Transformation🔄 Organizational Change🧭 Digital Leadership
ColdFusion Presents
by Dagogo Altraide • 2019
From steam to AI: the chain of breakthroughs that built the modern world, every link essential.
4.17
780
🏭 History Of Technology🔬 History Of Science💡 History Of Innovation
ColdFusion Presents Summary
ColdFusion Presents 90%
From steam to AI: the chain of breakthroughs that built the modern world, every link essential.
by Dagogo Altraide 2019
4.17
780 ratings
🏭 History Of Technology🔬 History Of Science💡 History Of Innovation
How Progress Ends
by Carl Benedikt Frey • 2025
Progress doesn't stall from a lack of ideas but from institutions that protect yesterday's winners.
4.19
202
📈 Economic History💡 Innovation Economics💥 Creative Destruction
How Progress Ends Summary
How Progress Ends 90%
Progress doesn't stall from a lack of ideas but from institutions that protect yesterday's winners.
by Carl Benedikt Frey 2025
4.19
202 ratings
📈 Economic History💡 Innovation Economics💥 Creative Destruction
Big Bang Disruption
by Larry Downes • 2014
When a product beats yours on every dimension, your industry doesn't just shrink. It disappears.
3.59
245
🧨 Disruptive Innovation📈 Exponential Technologies🔄 Innovation Lifecycles
Big Bang Disruption Summary
Big Bang Disruption 90%
When a product beats yours on every dimension, your industry doesn't just shrink. It disappears.
by Larry Downes 2014
3.59
245 ratings
🧨 Disruptive Innovation📈 Exponential Technologies🔄 Innovation Lifecycles
The Lever of Riches
by Joel Mokyr • 1990
Europe didn't out-invent Asia by chance. Culture, not geography, explains who industrializes first.
4.05
326
🏛️ Economic History🔧 History Of Technology🏭 Industrial Revolution
The Lever of Riches Summary
The Lever of Riches 90%
Europe didn't out-invent Asia by chance. Culture, not geography, explains who industrializes first.
by Joel Mokyr 1990
4.05
326 ratings
🏛️ Economic History🔧 History Of Technology🏭 Industrial Revolution
The Things We Make
by Bill Hammack • 2023
Engineering isn't applied science: it's the art of solving problems before anyone understands them.
3.75
1k+
🛠️ History Of Technology🏗️ Engineering Culture💡 Design Thinking
The Things We Make Summary
The Things We Make 90%
Engineering isn't applied science: it's the art of solving problems before anyone understands them.
by Bill Hammack 2023
3.75
1k+ ratings
🛠️ History Of Technology🏗️ Engineering Culture💡 Design Thinking
TRIZ For Dummies
by Lilly Haines-Gadd • 2016
Turn impossible trade-offs into breakthroughs. A patent-proven method for systematic innovation.
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🧠 Systematic Innovation📦 Product Development💡 Creative Problem Solving
TRIZ For Dummies Summary
TRIZ For Dummies 90%
Turn impossible trade-offs into breakthroughs. A patent-proven method for systematic innovation.
by Lilly Haines-Gadd 2016
4.07
54 ratings
🧠 Systematic Innovation📦 Product Development💡 Creative Problem Solving
How We Got to Now
by Steven Johnson • 2014
Six ordinary breakthroughs built the modern world; their biggest consequences were never planned.
4.12
16k+
🕰️ History Of Technology💡 Everyday Inventions🦋 Ripple Effects
How We Got to Now Summary
How We Got to Now 90%
Six ordinary breakthroughs built the modern world; their biggest consequences were never planned.
by Steven Johnson 2014
4.12
16k+ ratings
🕰️ History Of Technology💡 Everyday Inventions🦋 Ripple Effects
Design Driven Innovation
by Roberto Verganti • 2009
User research cannot reveal the next breakthrough. Radical innovation is a proposal, not a response.
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498
🧠 Innovation Strategy🎨 Design Management⚡ Radical Innovation
Design Driven Innovation Summary
Design Driven Innovation 90%
User research cannot reveal the next breakthrough. Radical innovation is a proposal, not a response.
by Roberto Verganti 2009
4.00
498 ratings
🧠 Innovation Strategy🎨 Design Management⚡ Radical Innovation
The Innovation Stack
by Jim McKelvey • 2020
Great companies don't disrupt. They layer innovations into interlocking systems no rival can copy.
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🏗️ Business Innovation🏰 Competitive Moats🌊 Market Creation
The Innovation Stack Summary
The Innovation Stack 90%
Great companies don't disrupt. They layer innovations into interlocking systems no rival can copy.
by Jim McKelvey 2020
4.22
2k+ ratings
🏗️ Business Innovation🏰 Competitive Moats🌊 Market Creation
Start-up Nation
by Dan Senor • 2009
Surrounded and resource-poor, Israel became a startup superpower. The counterintuitive playbook.
4.11
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🏢 Startup Ecosystems🔒 Constraint Innovation🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Start-up Nation Summary
Start-up Nation 90%
Surrounded and resource-poor, Israel became a startup superpower. The counterintuitive playbook.
by Dan Senor 2009
4.11
13k+ ratings
🏢 Startup Ecosystems🔒 Constraint Innovation🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin • 2008
Patents and copyrights were meant to fuel invention. The evidence shows they mostly slow it down.
4.02
395
🧠 Intellectual Property💡 Innovation Economics💸 Rent-Seeking
Against Intellectual Monopoly Summary
Against Intellectual Monopoly 90%
Patents and copyrights were meant to fuel invention. The evidence shows they mostly slow it down.
by Michele Boldrin 2008
4.02
395 ratings
🧠 Intellectual Property💡 Innovation Economics💸 Rent-Seeking
Dual Transformation
by Scott D. Anthony • 2017
Disruption demands two transformations: save the core, build the future, and the bridge between.
4.06
254
🏢 Corporate Innovation🔄 Business Transformation📉 Disruptive Innovation
Dual Transformation Summary
Dual Transformation 90%
Disruption demands two transformations: save the core, build the future, and the bridge between.
by Scott D. Anthony 2017
4.06
254 ratings
🏢 Corporate Innovation🔄 Business Transformation📉 Disruptive Innovation
Creative Construction
by Gary P. Pisano • 2019
Large companies fail at innovation not because of size, but because they lack an innovation system.
4.02
128
🏢 Corporate Innovation🗺️ Innovation Strategy🌱 Innovation Culture
Creative Construction Summary
Creative Construction 90%
Large companies fail at innovation not because of size, but because they lack an innovation system.
by Gary P. Pisano 2019
4.02
128 ratings
🏢 Corporate Innovation🗺️ Innovation Strategy🌱 Innovation Culture
Epic Disruptions
by Scott D. Anthony • 2025
Gunpowder and the iPhone follow the same disruption rules. Eleven case studies trace them.
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🌪️ Disruption Theory💡 Innovation History📊 Business Model Design
Epic Disruptions Summary
Epic Disruptions 90%
Gunpowder and the iPhone follow the same disruption rules. Eleven case studies trace them.
by Scott D. Anthony 2025
3.90
109 ratings
🌪️ Disruption Theory💡 Innovation History📊 Business Model Design
The Lean Machine
by Dantar P. Oosterwal • 2010
The lean product development playbook behind Harley-Davidson's turnaround, and how to use it.
3.83
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🛠️ Product Development📊 Visual Management🔄 Business Transformation
The Lean Machine Summary
The Lean Machine 90%
The lean product development playbook behind Harley-Davidson's turnaround, and how to use it.
by Dantar P. Oosterwal 2010
3.83
137 ratings
🛠️ Product Development📊 Visual Management🔄 Business Transformation
The Startup Way
by Eric Ries • 2017
Startup speed inside slow giants: turning divisions into labs and failure into fuel.
3.98
4k+
🏢 Intrapreneurship🔄 Lean Startup Methods🏗️ Organizational Transformation
The Startup Way Summary
The Startup Way 90%
Startup speed inside slow giants: turning divisions into labs and failure into fuel.
by Eric Ries 2017
3.98
4k+ ratings
🏢 Intrapreneurship🔄 Lean Startup Methods🏗️ Organizational Transformation
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
by Robert C. Allen • 2009
Britain's Industrial Revolution was an accident of wages and coal prices, not genius or empire.
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🕰️ Economic History🏭 Industrial Revolution⚙️ Technological Change
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective Summary
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective 90%
Britain's Industrial Revolution was an accident of wages and coal prices, not genius or empire.
by Robert C. Allen 2009
4.00
264 ratings
🕰️ Economic History🏭 Industrial Revolution⚙️ Technological Change
IoT Inc
by Bruce Sinclair • 2017
Sensors turn products into services. Here's how to sell outcomes, not hardware.
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🌐 IoT Strategy🔄 Business Model Innovation💰 Data Monetization
IoT Inc Summary
IoT Inc 90%
Sensors turn products into services. Here's how to sell outcomes, not hardware.
by Bruce Sinclair 2017
3.92
144 ratings
🌐 IoT Strategy🔄 Business Model Innovation💰 Data Monetization
Exponential Organizations
by Salim Ismail • 2014
New organizations achieve 10x more with 10x less. The architecture is knowable and borrowable.
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🏗️ Organizational Design📱 Digital Transformation💥 Disruptive Innovation
Exponential Organizations Summary
Exponential Organizations 90%
New organizations achieve 10x more with 10x less. The architecture is knowable and borrowable.
by Salim Ismail 2014
4.07
5k+ ratings
🏗️ Organizational Design📱 Digital Transformation💥 Disruptive Innovation
Seeing What's Next
by Clayton M. Christensen • 2004
Disruption does not strike at random. The patterns that predict the next upheaval in any industry.
3.94
5k+
💡 Disruptive Innovation🧩 Innovation Strategy🔮 Strategic Foresight
Seeing What's Next Summary
Seeing What's Next 90%
Disruption does not strike at random. The patterns that predict the next upheaval in any industry.
by Clayton M. Christensen 2004
3.94
5k+ ratings
💡 Disruptive Innovation🧩 Innovation Strategy🔮 Strategic Foresight
The Story of Technology
by Daniel M. Gerstein • 2019
Technology lurches, converges, and reshapes us. The patterns for reading the next disruption.
3.50
16
🏛️ Technology History📋 Innovation Policy🔄 Systems Thinking
The Story of Technology Summary
The Story of Technology 90%
Technology lurches, converges, and reshapes us. The patterns for reading the next disruption.
by Daniel M. Gerstein 2019
3.50
16 ratings
🏛️ Technology History📋 Innovation Policy🔄 Systems Thinking
Eat People
by Andy Kessler • 2011
Find what gets cheaper every year, waste it prodigiously, and let the market eat the rest.
3.63
393
🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship💥 Creative Destruction🏛️ Austrian Economics
Eat People Summary
Eat People 90%
Find what gets cheaper every year, waste it prodigiously, and let the market eat the rest.
by Andy Kessler 2011
3.63
393 ratings
🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship💥 Creative Destruction🏛️ Austrian Economics
The Mesh
by Lisa Gansky • 2010
Selling access beats selling ownership. One product, dozens of transactions, and the customers stay.
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1k+
🤝 Sharing Economy💡 Business Model Innovation♻️ Circular Economy
The Mesh Summary
The Mesh 90%
Selling access beats selling ownership. One product, dozens of transactions, and the customers stay.
by Lisa Gansky 2010
3.66
1k+ ratings
🤝 Sharing Economy💡 Business Model Innovation♻️ Circular Economy
Brick by Brick
by David C. Robertson • 2013
Innovation nearly killed LEGO. The rules it wrote to survive rewrote the playbook.
3.85
2k+
🔄 Corporate Turnarounds💡 Innovation Strategy👥 Fan Co-Creation
Brick by Brick Summary
Brick by Brick 90%
Innovation nearly killed LEGO. The rules it wrote to survive rewrote the playbook.
by David C. Robertson 2013
3.85
2k+ ratings
🔄 Corporate Turnarounds💡 Innovation Strategy👥 Fan Co-Creation
Winning At New Products
by Robert G. Cooper • 2011
One in seven product ideas succeeds. A disciplined, gated system for flipping those odds.
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🛠️ Product Development💡 Innovation Management🏢 Corporate Innovation
Winning At New Products Summary
Winning At New Products 90%
One in seven product ideas succeeds. A disciplined, gated system for flipping those odds.
by Robert G. Cooper 2011
3.75
154 ratings
🛠️ Product Development💡 Innovation Management🏢 Corporate Innovation
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