Inventing the Future: What Would Thomas Edison Be Doing Today?
- ISBN-10
- 1118219864
- ISBN-13
- 9781118219867
- Series
- Inventing the Future
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-10-14
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Sarah Miller Caldicott
Description
Thomas Edison holds over a thousand patents in his name, includingthe electric light bulb, the phonograph, and motion picture camera.He is considered among the world's most prolific inventors, with awork ethic and vision for the future that helped change the modernworld. And with all of the advances in current technology that hehelped to invent, just imagine: What Would Thomas Edison Be DoingToday? Author Sarah Miller Caldicott, a great-grandniece of Edison andexpert in his methods, sets out to answer just that. Inventingthe Future is a well-researched, intriguing look at how Edisonwould innovate today using new technology, and how modern daythinkers can adapt his proven innovation methods to theiradvantage. It also includes 7 steps anyone can take to startthinking like an innovator, and offers a hands-on view of howcreativity and risk-taking come together to design powerfulconcepts that create new markets. Learn the strategies needed to remove innovation barriers, begindriving the breakthroughs of the future, and change the way you dobusiness. Stimulate your ability to imagine what's possible.
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- 2011-11-23
- 35 pages
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- 2018-09-17
- 72 pages
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- 2015-11-17
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