Econovation [[electronic resource] ] : the red, white, and blue pill for arousing innovation / / Steve Faktor

• Autore: Faktor Steve <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4/063
• Soggetto topico: Technological innovations - Economic aspects - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Economic conditions 2009-; United States Economic policy 2009-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Micropreneurs ; CHAPTER 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Over 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 US
• Titolo autorizzato: Econovation
• ISBN: 1-118-18243-X; 1-283-33271-X; 9786613332714; 1-118-18244-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457703903321
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