Organized Innovation: A Blueprint for Renewing America's Prosperity
"The authors' model of'Organized Innovation'is based on the remarkable success of the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Centers. This book offers a recipe for reversing worrisome trends in America's leadership in science and technology and the competitiveness of its industries through enhanced partnerships among universities, industry, and federal agencies. At a time when federal budgets are severely constrained, it is all the more important to insure those resources are well spent." --Neal Lane, physicist, former U.S. Presidential Science Adviser, former National Science Foundation director,  and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Rice University"Organized Innovationbusts myths. Experts often speak of disruption and chaos as the fuel for innovation. Here, the authors reveal that meaningful innovation requires orchestrated serendipity -- and an environment that strategically breeds such serendipity.  The authors have identified an innovation blueprint that can be of immense benefit to American industry, government, academia, and society as a whole." --C. L. Max Nikias, President and Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities, and former Founding Director of an NSF Engineering Research Center at the University of Southern California"This compelling book underscores the unique partnership in the United States between the government, universities, and the private sector and the specific actions each can take to drive technological breakthroughs and innovation." --William P. Sullivan, President and CEO, Agilent Technologies"Based on extensive case studies of the Engineering Research Centers of the National Science Foundation, the authors lay out a compelling blueprint for 'organized innovation,' a systematic method for the successful commercialization of scientific discoveries.  The book delineates the essential role of partnerships between the government, universities and the private sector in fostering the scientific research and teamwork on which innovation and economic progress depend." --Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Director, Institute for Business & Social Impact, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, former Chairperson of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers, former Dean of London Business School and the Haas School of Business"Organized Innovationblazes a new trail. It provides a novel framework that shows engineers, entrepreneurs, educators, and corporate R&D; leaders how to forge the organizational conditions that produce platform technologies, which spawn high-quality jobs and regional economic prosperity. You will be inspired to collaborate in new ways based on the ideas inOrganized Innovation." --Tom Byers, Director of the Engineering Pathways to Innovation Center and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Entrepreneurship Professorship in the School of Engineering, Stanford University"This book encourages creative and innovative thinking on how our nation can advance its technological and economic leadership in the world.Organized Innovationis a must read for today's-and tomorrow's-leaders in our country."  --Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui