Consider the following stats offered by Tony Wagner in Creating Innovators : According to the 2010 Census, the percentage of Americans who now work has dropped to 58.2%
What does an innovator look like? Tony Wagner offers the following as some of the most essential qualities of a successful innovator in his book: curiosity, what is a habit of asking good questions and a desire to understand more deeply, collaboration, which begins with listening to and learning from others who have perspectives and expertise that are very different from your own, associative or integrative thinking, and a bias toward action and experimentation
In Creating Innovators , Tony Wagner offers some statistics that further reinforce our need to be concerned if the U.S. wants to remain the world’s creative leader: In 2009, 51 percent of U.S. patents were awarded to non-U.S. companies, According to a report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, “The United States has made the least progress of the 40 nations/regions in improvement in international competitiveness and innovation capacity over the last decade.”
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