Product Description: In most discussions about the knowledge-based economy, innovation is associated or even equated with technology, while culture’s influence is ignored. Innovation is however embedded in cultural and social contexts, and neglecting these crucial contexts may impede an innovation’s diffusion―and eventual success...read more

Product Description: In her groundbreaking 1961 critique of midcentury American urban-renewal policies, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs wrote, "It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give...read more

Product Description: Many people equate innovation with technology, a dangerous half-truth and a serious underestimation of the tremendous variety of innovative thinking. Dutch strategy expert Dany Jacobs has devoted his professional life to the study of competition and innovation in a variety of industries--from dredging to horticulture, airplane manufacture, cocoa, steel and fashion...read more