The Role of Creative Ignorance Portraits of Pathfinders and Path Creators

by Formica, Piero

• ISBN13: 9781137489623
• ISBN10: 1137489626
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot

Summary

Traditionally, company experts and outside collaborators innovate by developing the knowledge map. Success or failure of incremental innovation hinges on this path. The Role of Creative Ignorance suggests the knowledge map should be abandoned and replaced with a new methodology, that of creative ignorance. With over 30 years of experience in international economics and entrepreneurship, Piero Formica explores the concept of creative ignorance in combination with path creation and its disruptive effect on entrepreneurship. Using narrative examples of innovators and companies worldwide, he introduces the characteristics of successful path creators that overstep the boundaries set by knowledge maps to open up new, unprecedented routes and connect them each other. In doing so, path creators reveal latent, unexpressed needs of consumers and drive innovation forward.

Author Biography

Dr. Piero Formica is Founder of the International Entrepreneurship Academy and holds the Chair of Human Resources and Entrepreneurship Research at the King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). He is also Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland and Intel Innovation Value Institute consortium and was Professor of Economics from August 2006 and December 2009 at the Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor Martin Curley
Acknowledgements
Note from the Author
Introduction: Knowing and Not Knowing, by John Edmondson
The Role of Creative Ignorance as a Willing Action
1.Why Is Creative Ignorance Important?
2.Introducing Path finders and Path Creators
3.The Embrace Between Science and Entrepreneurship
4.The Unity of Opposites
5.Ambitious Entrepreneurs
6.Creation out of Nothing
The Portraits
7.Experimental Theatre: Path Finders and Path Creators Take To the Stage
8.Portrait of Path Finders
9.Path Finders of 'Made in Italy'
10.Portrait of Path Creators
11.Looking for Path Creators of the Grand Unification between Manufacture and Culture. The Opera Houses Case
12.Path Creators of the Third Millennium University
Epilogue: Traveling to the No Comfort Zone and Reaching the Flow Zone
Selected Bibliography