Sustainable innovation : a guide to harvesting the untapped riches of opposition, unlikely combinations, and a plan B /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool,
[2011]
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on technology, management, and entrepreneurship ;
#3. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Many of us wish we could design inventions and make decisions that were optimal and sustainable, but we do not know how to begin the approach. This book offers a guide to dramatically improve the quality of innovation and solution-making through the respectful use of existing and abundant, but often-ignored, resources. Sustainable innovation is about creative combination of ideas, materials, methods, and people, courage to derive value from opposition and diversity, integrative intelligence, virtuous planning, minimal consumption of resources, and definition of alternative plans. Using the method successfully requires that we are truly interested in the common good of humankind, that we care about our environment, and that we take time to think carefully about consequences before we act, invent, or make decisions. It is a call for a much-needed collaboration between people of different backgrounds, skills, and opinions with the intent to preserve individual and local integrity and adapt a win-win mindset. Try it, and partake in its positive and long-lasting effects! |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (Morgan & Claypool, viewed Aug 3, 2011). Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 75 pages) : illustrations Also available in print. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-58). |
| ISBN: | 9781608457472 (electronic bk.) 1608457478 (electronic bk.) 160845746X 9781608457465 |
| ISSN: | 1933-9798 ; |