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Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation: The Lynceus Long View

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  1. Piero Formica
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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introducing the Stories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Wonder Generation: Adolescent Entrepreneurs of Generation Y, New Stars of Innovation

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 2-5

    3. The Lynceus Long View

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 6-20

  3. The Stories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Self-Portrait with Thoughts of a Millennial, Youthful Knowledge Nomad

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 22-26

    3. An Italian Millennial Fleeing His Country

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 27-31

    4. Innovation: A Disquieting Muse

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 32-35

    5. A Voyage to Innoland, Island of Innovation: Tales of a Modern Gulliver

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 36-47

    6. In Praise of the Black Sheep: The Country that I Would Like

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 48-51

    7. War and Peace: Destructive Creativity and Creative Destruction

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 52-56

    8. Three Visitors in the Emerald City

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 57-65

    9. The Expulsion of the Oblomovs: From the Cult of Concealment to the Practice of Innovation

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 66-69

    10. In the Kingdom of Zenda: Prisoners of Success

      • Piero Formica
      Pages 70-75
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The potential of storytelling as a research tool for enhancing the understanding of knowledge creation, acquisition and conversion into innovation and innovative business activities is the methodological underpinning of this book's narrative approach. The subtitle comes from Lynceus, one of the Argonauts who accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece, who was said to have excellent sight. Among the various interpretations of the meaning of the Fleece, one version highlights the importance of discovery to innovation by voyaging to 'terrae incognitae' (unknown lands). This book is a narrative of a fictional voyage to the 'terra incognita' of Innoland the island of innovation and other mental travels that make sense of events and actions which spur innovation. Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation is written for Millennials willing to assimilate and grow dynamic, innovation-driven capabilities which lead to the creation of high-impact startups.

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"Formica's attempt to shed substantive light on these connections will strongly help the trans-culturation and co-evolution of ideas among scholars, practitioners, students and, more widely, all those interested in innovation and entrepreneurship." - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

About the author

Professor Piero Formica has over 30 years of experience in the fields of international economics and the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation, having worked with the OECD Economic Prospects Division in Paris, academic institutions, large corporations and small companies, governmental bodies, and the European Union. He founded the International Entrepreneurship Academy (www.intentac.org), he is Senior Research Fellow of the Innovation Value Institute (a consortium founded by Intel, National University of Ireland, and Boston Consulting Group) at the National University of Ireland, where he leads an international research team in experimentation and simulation of high-expectation start-ups. Formica is Guest Professor of Knowledge Economics, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and at the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Iran.

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