{"product_id":"on-the-brink-of-utopia-reinventing-innovation-to-solve-the-worlds-largest-problems-paperback","title":"On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Ramge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRafael Laguna de la Vera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStefan Hell\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved challenges. A radical shift in the culture of innovation is needed. \u003ci\u003eOn the Brink of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e, by authors Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, and with a foreword written by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell, offers just that--a new and coherent framework for fostering breakthrough innovations for human progress. In their \"Innovation Leap Paradigm,\" they present seven steps in seven chapters and answer three simple questions: What great challenges need to be tackled? Who makes tech leaps? And finally, what political, economic, and cultural environments foster radical innovation? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors sketch out a future in which technology will solve real problems, anywhere from climate change and hunger to obesity and menstrual pain. They envision a future in which biotechnologists work from a platform that enables them to develop effective drugs within months for any emerging virus, where green energy will be too cheap to meter and aerial carbon can be transmuted into a valuable commodity at scale. Offering a new perspective on innovation that centers not just American readers but also readers from all over the world, \u003ci\u003eOn the Brink of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e is a hopeful and visionary book that reimagines the roles of innovators, citizens, governments, and financial markets to foster innovation leaps that maximize the well-being of the greatest number of people.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Ramge has published about twenty books on technology, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. His essays and long-reads have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMIT Sloan Management Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He is an associated member of the Einstein Center for Digital Future and Alumni Senior Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRafael Laguna de la Vera is the founding director of the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND). At sixteen, he founded his first start-up, Elephant Software. Laguna is a visiting professor at several universities and is a cofounding partner of CODE University of Applied Sciences.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765423014176,"sku":"9780262546485","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f1fcb9f601a9171bc7b6083f63dae2f0.webp?v=1780269197","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/on-the-brink-of-utopia-reinventing-innovation-to-solve-the-worlds-largest-problems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}