How Breakthroughs Happen

Name: How Breakthroughs Happen
Brand: Harvard Business Review Press
SKU: 9781578519040-G
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By Andrew Hargadon

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WE'VE ALL READ about the "lone geniuses" of invention: Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford. But while this heroic notion of innovation is alluring, is it true? Not according to Andrew Hargadon. He argues that breakthroughs are the result of occupying a unique position in a networked landscape across which ideas, people, and artifacts travel and recombine in new ways. Inventors "borrow" existing ideas from an arena, and then bring together the physical artifacts and the people necessary to apply those ideas elsewhere. This process, which Hargadon calls "technology brokering, " has been the force behind numerous celebrated inventions. He takes readers behind the scenes--from Edison's Menlo Park lab to IDEO--to illustrate strategies for sourcing, nurturing, and exploiting ideas in new ways for new markets.

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Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

320

Release Date:

2003-07-10

Publication Date:

2003-07-10

Publisher:

Harvard Business Review Press

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1578519047

ISBN13:

9781578519040

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Weight:

562 g

Height:

162 cm

Width:

239 cm

Thickness:

25 cm

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