The role of creative ignorance : portraits of path finders and path creators

The Role of Creative Ignorance outlines the importance of creative ignorance using narrative examples of innovators and companies worldwide. Traditionally, company experts and outside collaborators innovate by developing the knowledge map. Success or failure of incremental innovation hinges on this path. The Role of Creative Ignorance suggests the knowledge map should be abandoned and replaced with a new methodology, that of creative ignorance. With over 30 years of experience in international economics and entrepreneurship, Piero Formica explores the concept of creative ignorance in combination with path creation and its disruptive effect on entrepreneurship. Using narrative examples of innovators and companies worldwide, he introduces the characteristics of successful path creators that overstep the boundaries set by knowledge maps to open up new, unprecedented routes and connect them each other. In doing so, path creators reveal latent, unexpressed needs of consumers and drive innovation forward Foreword by Professor Martin Curley Acknowledgements Note from the Author Introduction: Knowing and Not Knowing, by John Edmondson The Role of Creative Ignorance as a Willing Action 1. Why Is Creative Ignorance Important? 2. Introducing Path finders and Path Creators 3. The Embrace Between Science and Entrepreneurship 4. The Unity of Opposites 5. Ambitious Entrepreneurs 6. Creation out of Nothing The Portraits 7. Experimental Theatre: Path Finders and Path Creators Take To the Stage 8. Portrait of Path Finders 9. Path Finders of 'Made in Italy' 10. Portrait of Path Creators 11. Looking for Path Creators of the Grand Unification between Manufacture and Culture. The Opera Houses Case 12. Path Creators of the Third Millennium University Epilogue: Traveling to the No Comfort Zone and Reaching the Flow Zone Selected Bibliography Traditionally, company experts and outside collaborators innovate by developing the knowledge map. Success or failure of incremental innovation hinges on this path. The role of creative ignorance suggests the knowledge map should be abandoned and replaced with a new methodology, that of creative ignorance. Using narrative examples of innovators and companies worldwide, he introduces the charateristics of successful path creators that overstep the boundaries set by knowledge maps to open up new, unprecedented routes and connect them with each other. In doing so, path creators reveal latent, unexpressed needs of consumers and drive innovation forward