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Chapter 2
Why Innovation Matters
Even More Today
Innovation and Women
When innovations are examined with a gender lens to determine implications on women's
well-being, empowerment and gender equality, a powerful, untapped strategy emerges to
transform women's lives and gender relations.
Malhotra A. et al. (2009)
Chapter Outline
The Relationship between
Leadership and Innovation
Personal Innovation
27
21
Who Are the Innovators?
28
What Innovation Is Not
22
Keys to Personal Innovation
29
Personal Innovation Vs
Organizational Innovation
How Do We Innovate?
29
23
Innovation and Women
30
Personal Innovation
24
Models of Innovation
31
Organizational Innovation
25
Creating Your Own
Micro-Innovation Ecosystem
Product and Service
Innovation
32
25
Summary
33
Operational Innovation
25
Business Model Innovation
25
The innovation needs of both the United States and the global community have
generated a public plea for STEM professionals to turn their ideas, research,
and knowledge into innovative products and services like never before. In
fact, the current innovation crisis may be the most exciting thing that ever
happened to STEM careers. Exciting new innovations - like Apple products, the
Nintendo Wii, new gas-saving, battery-using automobiles - have placed innova-
tion in vogue alongside the floral prints of fashion week, low-cal FroYo, and the
Kardashians. It's suddenly trendy for young people to be interested in what
were previously considered geeky gadgets.
How does this need for innovation apply to you? How does it apply to
students, educators, and current STEM professionals? Also, what does it mean
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