Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation The Lynceus long view

The potential of storytelling as a research tool for enhancing the understanding of knowledge creation, acquisition and conversion into innovation and innovative business activities is the methodological underpinning of this book's narrative approach. The subtitle comes from Lynceus, one of the Argonauts who accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece, who was said to have excellent sight. Among the various interpretations of the meaning of the Fleece, one version highlights the importance of discovery to innovation by voyaging to 'terrae incognitae' (unknown lands). This book is a narrative of a fictional voyage to the 'terra incognita' of Innoland – the island of innovation and other mental travels that make sense of events and actions which spur innovation.

Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation is written for Millennials willing to assimilate and grow dynamic, innovation-driven capabilities which lead to the creation of high-impact startups.

Professor Piero Formica has over 30 years of experience in the fields of international economics and the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation, having worked with the OECD Economic Prospects Division in Paris, academic institutions, large corporations and small companies, governmental bodies, and the European Union. He founded the International Entrepreneurship Academy (www.intentac.org), he is Senior Research Fellow of the Innovation Value Institute (a consortium founded by Intel, National University of Ireland, and Boston Consulting Group) at the National University of Ireland, where he leads an international research team in experimentation and simulation of high-expectation start-ups. Formica is Guest Professor of Knowledge Economics, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and at the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Iran.

Foreword
Professor Martin Curley
Preface
Making Connections – Charles Dickens, 21st Century Innovation and the Magpie Tactic
John Edmondson
Acknowledgements
Introducing the Stories
Chapter 1: The Wonder Generation: Adolescent Entrepreneurs of Generation Y, New Stars of Innovation
Chapter 2: The Lynceus Long View
The Stories
Chapter 3: Self-portrait with Thoughts of a Millennial, Youthful Knowledge Nomad
Chapter 4: An Italian Millennial Fleeing His Country
Chapter 5: Innovation: a Disquieting Muse
Chapter 6: A Voyage to Innoland, Island of Innovation: Tales of a Modern Gulliver
Chapter 7: In Praise of the Black Sheep: the Country That I Would Like
Chapter 8: War and Peace: Destructive Creativity and Creative Destruction
Chapter 9: Three Visitors in the Emerald City
Chapter 10: The Expulsion of the Oblomovs: From the Cult of Concealment to the Practice of Innovation
Chapter 11: In the Kingdom of Zenda: Prisoners of Success
Stories from the 'Sea of Crises'
Chapter 12: Mr X; or, the Anxieties of the Forgotten Man
Chapter 13: Extracts of a Report of the Ambassador of ????µ?s to Oeconomicus
Chapter 14: 'On Beauty': Three Scherzos Played on the World Economy Stage
Chapter 15: The War of the Two 'F's and the Decisive Intervention of 'E'
Chapter 16: Autobiographical Sketches of Kidnapped Europa and Titanic Asia: a Tale of the Future Foreseen
Chapter 17: Innovation in the Academic World: a New Mission for University Old Stars
Chapter 18: A dialogue between start-up entrepreneurs Crusoe and Gulliver: Gulliver teaches Crusoe the physics of entrepreneurship
Chapter 19: The Spider's Webs of Mr F and Mr M
Chapter 20: The Red Thread of Coffee
Chapter 21: Subterranean Currents: Trade Relations Between the Middle Kingdom and Arabia Felix in the Digital Age
Chapter 22: An Interview with Maison Dubai's Style Director
Chapter 23: Letter to the Millennial Students of Tartu University: Back to the Future
Epilogue: Learning How Events Not Supposed to Happen, Happen
Bibliography (selected)