05761nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-60649-6 DE-He213 20251030112303.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240607s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031606496 978-3-031-60649-6 10.1007/978-3-031-60649-6 doi HD45 KJD bicssc BUS041000 bisacsh KJD thema Prencipe, Andrea. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 78430 The Grammar of Innovation [electronic resource] : A Literary Exploration of Technological and Organizational Change / by Andrea Prencipe, Massimo Sideri. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 78 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1 – THE CALVINO’s METHOD AS GRAMMAR OF INNOVATION -- CHAPTER 2 – LIGHTNESS -- CHAPTER 3 – QUICKNESS -- CHAPTER 4 – EXACTITUDE -- CHAPTER 5 – VISIBILITY -- CHAPTER 6 – MULTIPLICITY -- CHAPTER 7 – CONSISTENCY -- POSTSCRIPT. "Andrea Prencipe and Massimo Sideri write with intelligence, originality, and verve, presenting the ideas of Italo Calvino in the context of the forces shaping our world. The Grammar of Innovation provides insights that are timely and timeless and are an important contribution to our understanding of innovation." Alec Ross, Nyt best-selling author, professor, entrepreneur and former senior advisor to Hillary Clinton "Tension, paradox, and oppositional forces have been a vital part of understanding innovation since the time when Joseph Schumpeter first coined the phrase "Creative Destruction". This book by Prencipe and Sideri more gracefully and elegantly explores these attributes than any book I've ever seen. Italo Calvino, the inspiration for this work, would have been pleased to see his ideas embraced and adapted for our time. The authors convincingly demonstrate the power of playing with ideas, and allowing tensions to have their day, so that new, generative possibilities might arise that otherwise would have been missed. Savor this book, yet drink deeply at the same time!" Henry Chesbrough, Maire Tecnimont Professor of Open Innovation and Sustainability, Luiss University, and author of Open Innovation In Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino elaborated on six concepts or memos to offer insights on the ‘shapes of things to come’, which were lightness, rapidity, exactness, visibility, multiplicity and consistency. To do so, the Italian writer embraced an interdisciplinary approach to describe each concept through juxtaposition of its antonyms, heaviness, slowness, indeterminacy, invisibility, uniqueness, and inconsistency. Inspired by Calvino’s intuition, this book puts forward the notion of the ‘Calvino Method’ to interpret the inner dynamics of innovation processes. Drawing on literature and cases from the fields of innovation, history of technology, organisation theory and corporate strategy, the book elaborates on each of the six concepts to offer a unique angle to understand innovation as technological, organisational and cultural change that generates value across a variety of domains. The linguistic juxtapositions at the root of the Calvino Method forms the framework of The Grammar of Innovation and the tension between opposites, which at first seems insoluble, emerges as the catalyst of future thought. This book will be of great interest to scholars of innovation, strategy, organisation studies, philosophy of business, and all those with an interest in the works of Italo Calvino. Andrea Prencipe is the Rector as well as Professor of Organisation and Innovation at Luiss University in Rome, Italy. His research focuses on innovation-related issues in organisations and higher education institutions and on project-based organising. His works have been published widely in books and journals and he sits on several editorial boards. His writings regularly appears in national and international newspapers. Massimo Sideri is a correspondent and columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera, writing on innovation, science and economics. He is the former Editor-in-Chief and founder of Corriere Innovazione, a monthly magazine focused on innovation. He is an Adjunct Professor of Socio-Economic History of Innovation at Luiss University. He has authored a variety of books and received several journalism awards. Technological innovations. 59244 Industrial organization. 57885 Technology. 58482 History. Literature Philosophy. 66322 Innovation and Technology Management. 66187 Organization. 59674 History of Technology. 66100 Literary Theory. 61787 Sideri, Massimo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 78431 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031606489 Printed edition: 9783031606502 Printed edition: 9783031606519 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60649-6 ZDB-2-BUM ZDB-2-SXBM 60597 60597