Creating Innovation Leaders

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Theoretical Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Why Innovate?

      • Banny Banerjee

      Pages 3-24

   3. The Innovation Ecosystem

      • John Body, Fawwaz Habbal

      Pages 25-51

   4. Innovation Leadership: A New Kind of Leadership

      • Banny Banerjee, Stefano Ceri, Chiara Leonardi

      Pages 53-80

   5. A New Kind of University

      • Randy Swearer, Véronique Hillen, Paola Bertola

      Pages 81-103

   6. Charting Interdisciplinary Innovation Programs: Map of Experiences

      • Paola Bertola, Nabil Harfoush, Federica Vacca

      Pages 105-123

   7. Innovation Leadership in Action –Today and in the Future

      • John Body, Stefano Ceri

      Pages 125-141

3. Best Practices in Higher Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Best Practices in Higher Education: An Introduction

      • Chiara Leonardi, Federica Vacca

      Pages 145-148

   3. Embedding Design Thinking in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Curriculum at Harvard University

      • Fawwaz Habbal

      Pages 149-162

   4. Teaching the Innovation Methodology at the Stanford d.school

      • Banny Banerjee, Theo Gibbs

      Pages 163-174

   5. Reimagining a University for the 21st Century: The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering, and Commerce

      • Randy Swearer

      Pages 175-186

   6. The Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI) at OCAD University

      • Lenore Richards, Nabil Harfoush

      Pages 187-200

   7. Mission D, an Interdisciplinary Innovation and Venture Program at Tongji University

      • Lou Yongqi, Fan Fei, M. A. Jin

      Pages 201-213

   8. Alta Scuola Politecnica: Innovation, Multi-disciplinarity and Passion

      • Marco Ajmone Marsan, Stefano Ceri, Roberto Verganti, Roberto Zanino

      Pages 215-225

   9. The Paris d.school

      • Veronique Hillen

      Pages 227-237

   10. Interdisciplinary Design in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Brighton

       • Anne Boddington, Jyri Kermik, Tom Ainsworth

       Pages 239-254

   11. The EIT Digital Master School: A Program to Foster the Education of Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Creative Students

       • Maurizio Marchese, Lena Adamson, Carl-Gustaf Jansson, Anders Flodström

       Pages 255-266

   12. Making an Interdisciplinary Difference: Twenty Years of Design, Business and Technology at Aalto

       • Mikko Koria

       Pages 267-277

This book focuses on the process of creating and educating innovation leaders through specialized programs, which are offered by leading academic schools. Accordingly, the book is divided into two parts. While the first part provides the theoretical foundations of why and how innovation leaders should be created, the second part presents evidence that these foundations can already be found in the programs of ten top-level universities.

Part one consists of six chapters following a rigorous plan of content development, addressing topics ranging from (1) innovation, to (2) the settings where innovation occurs, (3) innovation leadership, (4) the need to change education, (5) a taxonomy of advanced educational experiences, and (6) cases of positive vs negative innovation leadership in the context of complex problems. Here the authors show that a new kind of innovation leadership is urgently needed, how it can be created, and how it is put into action. The second part is a collection of invited chapters that describe in detail ten leading academic programs: their objectives, curricular organization, enrollment procedures, and impact on students. Selected programs include four North American institutions (Stanford’s d.school, Harvard’s Multidisciplinary Engineering Faculty, Philadelphia University, OCAD’s Master of Design on Strategic Foresight & Innovation), five European institutions (Alta Scuola Politecnica of Milano and Torino, the EIT Master Program, Paris’ d.school, Brighton’s Interdisciplinary Design Program, Aalto University) and the Mission D program at Tongji University in China.

The book is dedicated to all those who recognize the need to provide stimuli regarding innovation and innovation leadership, primarily but not exclusively in academia. These include, but are not limited to, professors, deans and provosts of academic institutions, managers at private organizations and government policy-makers – in short, anyone who

is engaged in promoting innovation within their own organization, and who feels the need to expand the intellectual and practical toolbox they use in this demanding and exciting endeavor.

• Curriculum Studies
• Design Thinking
• Entrepreneurship
• Information Technology Education
• Innovation Management
• Leadership

• Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Banny Banerjee

• Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  Stefano Ceri

Banny Banerjee is the founder and Director of the Stanford ChangeLabs, which has been conducting research to develop the theoretical underpinnings and new models towards an advanced innovation methodology. His area of expertise is innovation methodology for large-scale transformations in the context of complex multi-dimensional challenges. Banny teaches innovation, strategy, and leadership at Stanford University’s d.school.

Stefano Ceri is Professor of Database Systems at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. He was Director of Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) of Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino (2010-2013). His research work is generally concerned with extending database technology. He is the recipient of the ACM-SIGMOD "Edward T. Codd Innovation Award" (2013), an ACM Fellow, and member of the Academia Europaea.

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