HOW MIGHT THE TEMPLE OF THE MUSE BECOME A NEXUS FOR INNOVATION? EXPLORING CREATIVE WORK PRACTICES FOR INNOVATION IN THE MUSEUM
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Authors
Young, Ivy Valérianne
Issue Date
2013
Type
Capstone
Language
en
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Abstract
Innovation is a hot topic. It permeates our culture and our lives on a daily basis; online, it pops up in seemingly incessant articles in any number of news, business, and design sites. In line at the grocery store, we are flooded with magazine titles that boast of each year's lists of top innovations, innovative companies, and innovators. Advertising renders all the latest technological innovations to be the most desirable consumer products on the market. A simple search on Amazon under the word innovation al one yields tens of thousands of books— from .such thrilling new titles as Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the Worlds Most Successful Businesses (Shapiro, 2013) to From Gutenberg to Zuckerbe;g: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet (Naughton, 2014) yet to be released in early 2014. Even our government is beginning to explore and invest in the promise of innovation for our civic experiences and the outcomes of a more robust workforce for the future— evidenced by the recent Creativity Conference 2013, held at the end of April on the Eve of the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C. (Florida, 2013b). Today, the city San Francisco employs Jay Nath as the Mayor's Chief Innovation Officer (Nath, n.d.).