Economics of Innovation
Lerner, J. (2012). The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN: 978-1422143636 (Selected Chapters)
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Dobbs, R., Manyika, J., and Woetzel, J. (2015). No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking all the Trends. Public Affairs. ISBN: 978-1610395793 (Selected Chapters)
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Christensen, C. (2016). The Innovator's Dilemma. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN: 978-1633691780
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Seelig, T. (2015). InsightOut: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World. Harper One. ISBN: 978-0062301277 (Selected Chapters)
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Isaacson, Walter (2015). The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon and Schuster. (Selected Chapters)
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Isaacson, Walter (2015). Steve Jobs. Simon and Schuster. (Selected Chapters)
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Podcasts
The EntreLeadership Podcast (Link)
Hosted by Ken Coleman, the EntreLeadership Podcast features lively discussions and tips on leadership and business by some of the top minds in the business, like Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Jim Collins and Simon Sinek.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (Link)
The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering.
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman (Link)
How do companies grow from zero to a gazillion? Legendary Silicon Valley investor / entrepreneur Reid Hoffman tests his theories with famous founders. Guests include Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg, Netflix’s Reed Hastings, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Spanx's Sara Blakely. With original music and hilariously honest stories, the show sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard. Masters of Scale is a WaitWhat original series in association with Stitcher.
Hosted by Ken Coleman, the EntreLeadership Podcast features lively discussions and tips on leadership and business by some of the top minds in the business, like Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Jim Collins and Simon Sinek.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (Link)
The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering.
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman (Link)
How do companies grow from zero to a gazillion? Legendary Silicon Valley investor / entrepreneur Reid Hoffman tests his theories with famous founders. Guests include Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg, Netflix’s Reed Hastings, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Spanx's Sara Blakely. With original music and hilariously honest stories, the show sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard. Masters of Scale is a WaitWhat original series in association with Stitcher.
Topic 1: The Intersection of Economics and Innovation
- Schumpeter, Joseph (2005). "Development." Journal of Economic Literature, 43 (1): 108-120.
- Kline, S. J. and N. Rosenberg (1986). "An Overview of Innovation". In The Positive Sum Strategy: Harnassing Technology for Economic Growth, edited by R. Landau and N.Rosenberg. Washington DC, National Academic Press.
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Topic 2: The Skills of Innovation, Invention, and Entrepreneurship
- Seelig, T. (2015). InsightOut: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World. Harper One. (Selected Chapters)
Topic 3: The Micro View - Innovation, R&D, and Firm Productivity
- Lerner, J. (2012). The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press (Selected Chapters).
- Jones, C. and Vollrath, D. (2013). Introduction to Economic Growth (Chapters 4 and 5). W.W. Norton and Company.
Topic 4: The Macro View - Transformative Innovation in the Global Economy
- Dobbs, R., Manyika, J., and Woetzel, J. (2015). No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking all the Trends. Public Affairs. (Selected Chapters)
- Das, G.G. (2015). “Why Some Countries are Slow in Acquiring New Technologies: A model of trade-led diffusion and absorption,” Journal of Policy Modeling, 37, 65-91.
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Topic 5: Case Studies in Innovation
- Isaacson, Walter (2015). Steve Jobs. Simon and Schuster. (Selected Chapters)
- Isaacson, Walter (2015). The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon and Schuster. (Selected Chapters)