Enabling Innovation: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Fostering Technological ChangeZed Books, 2002 - 266 pages "Enabling Innovation is an engrossing look at some of the disaster--and success--stories surrounding technological development and diffusion in industrialized and developing countries. The book tells the story of widely divergent technologies--agricultural appliances, wind turbines, Green Revolution high yielding seeds, the Linux computer operating system, and Local Economic Trading Systems. Boru Douthwaite has constructed a "how to do it" guide to innovation management that runs counter to so many current "top-down," "big is good," and "private sector is best" assumptions. |
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Why innovation approaches matter I | 1 |
Lessons on success | 14 |
Modelling early adoption | 44 |
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