03799nam 2200601Ia 450 991078144670332120230802004257.01-118-18243-X1-283-33271-X97866133327141-118-18244-8(CKB)2550000000064778(EBL)817506(OCoLC)767953034(SSID)ssj0000536100(PQKBManifestationID)11375578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536100(PQKBWorkID)10546735(PQKB)11231181(MiAaPQ)EBC817506(Au-PeEL)EBL817506(CaPaEBR)ebr10510680(CaONFJC)MIL333271(EXLCZ)99255000000006477820110902d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEconovation[electronic resource] the red, white, and blue pill for arousing innovation /Steve FaktorHoboken, N.J. Wileyc20121 online resource (226 p.)Includes index.1-118-05400-8 Econovation; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: What Is Econovation?; Why Me? Why Now?; The Next 100 Years; Coming Up in Econovation; CHAPTER 1: Indulgence in an Age of Constraint; The Way We Were; Right Now; CHAPTER 2: Tawdry Tales of a Service Economy; Botox and Other Services; Haves versus Have-Nots; Fossils and Fledglings; The Power of Intangibles; CHAPTER 3: The Next Decade; A Rebalancing: What's Likely, Possible, and Remote; A Shift in Power, Capital, and Priorities; CHAPTER 4: Sell Actualization; The Seven Economic Identities; Get Your Free Labor Here!What Minimum Wage? Tiny Jobs for Tiny Pay Social Identity as Economic Leverage; Secure Future; CHAPTER 5: Build a Capital Magnet; Sell to China, India, and Brazil; Change the Model; Become a Foreign Capital Magnet; What U.S. Companies Can Make in the Next Decade; CHAPTER 6: Make Makers; Education Complications; Fix the Core; Automate: Rise of the Machines; Repair School Financing; Empower Makers; CHAPTER 7: Liberate Micropreneurs; Splice Entrepreneurship into Education; Gain Access to Capital; Close the Confidence and Knowledge Gaps; Disneyfication for MicropreneursCHAPTER 8: Build an "Incentive Nation"Touched by the Hand of Go . . . vernment; Price, Love, and Understanding; Pricing and Incentive Models with a Future; The End of Money; CHAPTER 9: Unfinished Business; The Missing Link; Nobody's Bitch; APPENDIX: Applying Econovation; Approach; Hindsight to Foresight; All Together Now; About the Author; IndexOver the last 20 years, China fed our zombie-like appetite for iPhones, Prada and Snuggies. At the same time, its biggest customer, the US, found itself in debt, under-educated, and covered with recreational tattoos. So now what? Will America wallow in mediocrity like Greece or some C-list celebrity? Or, will our legendary ingenuity save us from Tweeting...and eating our way to irrelevance? Econovation is a bold, witty response to those questions that doesn't rely on miracles or government for answers. It challenges business leaders to think differently about the next decade of the USTechnological innovationsEconomic aspectsUnited StatesUnited StatesEconomic conditions2009-United StatesEconomic policy2009-Technological innovationsEconomic aspects658.4/063BUS000000bisacshFaktor Steve1973-1526888MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781446703321Econovation3769277UNINA