Title: Uniting the Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise
Author: Karen Sobel Lojeski, Presidential Fellow; Richard R. Reilly
Publication Date: 2008
"Uniting the Virtual Workforce charts the course for competing in the twenty-first century by tapping into the powers of virtual work…Karen and Dick have tapped into a key ingredient in the recipe for global growth."
– Jerry Hultin, Polytechnic President
Title: Igniting Innovation – Through the Power of Creative Thinking
Author: David Tanner, Polytechnic Alumnus
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher’s note: [Igniting Innovation] describes six essential components in building a more creative, innovative organization. The book draws from Dr. Tanner's experience gained at DuPont and lecturing and consulting with many organizations.
Title: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Author: Paul Collier
Publication Date: 2007
Available at Dibner; Call# HC79.P6 C634 2007
"The best book on international affairs so far this year." – Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times
Title: Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, And What We Can Do to Get It Back
Author: John Kao
Publication Date: 2007
Available at Dibner; Call# HD45 .K337 2007
"An insightful, and scary, account of the innovation challenges faced by the U.S... A very useful book that punctures America's complacency about innovation." – Business Week
Title: Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Author: Architecture for Humanity
Publication Date: 2006
Available at Dibner; Call# NA2543.S6 D397 2006
“Design Like You Give A Damn screams its message in its title. Good design is not a luxury, but a necessity.” – The Scotsman
Title: The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
Author: Frans Johansson
Publication Date: 2006
Available at Dibner; Call# HC79.T4 J625 2006
“Johansson…argues that innovations occur when people see beyond their expertise and approach situations actively, with an eye toward putting available materials together in new combinations.” – Publisher’s Weekly
Title: The Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America’s Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World
Author: Carl J. Schramm
Publication Date: 2006
Available at Dibner; Call# HB615 .S37 2006
Publisher’s note: As Schramm compellingly shows in this sweeping manifesto, entrepreneurship alone—not anything else—can give America the necessary leverage to remain an economic superpower.
Title:Innovation – The Missing Dimension
Authors: Richard K. Lester, Michael J. Piore
Publication Date: 2004
“The authors lead us to the conclusion that you have to go beyond just listening to the customer, you have to observe them and anticipate what they themselves never imagined they would want.” – Patrick le Quément, Chief Designer, Renault
Title: Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation
Author: Donald E. Stokes
Publication Date: 1997
Available at Dibner; Call# Q127.U6 S757 1997
Publisher’s note: Stokes builds a convincing case that by recognizing the importance of use-inspired basic research we can frame a new compact between science and government.
