Our founder Mickey McManus and Dutch MacDonald of MAYA (now BCG X) contributed section 4 about the value of diverse high-performance teams to this debate and engaged in the live discussion hosted by the Lemelson Center on this critical topic.
It is available as open access. It is an exploration about innovation and invention in America is a part of the Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series. Edited by Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz and Marie Stettler Kleine
Americans must innovate.
Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation’s burdens and rewards. Meanwhile, reformers work to make the training of innovators more inclusive and the outcomes of innovation more responsible. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today’s global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation’s champions, critics, and reformers in conversation.
Contributors
Errol Arkilic, Catherine Ashcraft, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, W. Bernard Carlson, Lisa D. Cook, Humera Fasihuddin, Maryann Feldman, Erik Fisher, Benoît Godin, Jenn Gustetic, David Guston, Eric S. Hintz, Marie Stettler Kleine, Dutch MacDonald, Mickey McManus, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Natalie Rusk, Andrew L. Russell, Lucinda M. Sanders, Brenda Trinidad, Lee Vinsel, Matthew Wisnioski
https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/does-america-need-more-innovators