Innovation Books

Books on Innovation and Creativity

Books to inspire, inform and guide you.


Patent Pending in 24 Hours (Paperback)

Patent Pending in 24 Hours (Paperback)

By Richard Stim, David Pressman
Take the first step to protecting your invention! Ready to stamp "patent pending" on your invention? Then you need to file a provisional patent application (PPA), an inexpensive way to claim your h...
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How to Make Patent Drawings: A Patent It Yourself Companion (Paperback)

How to Make Patent Drawings: A Patent It Yourself Companion (Paperback)

By Jack Lo, David Pressman
On the last couple of patent applications I submitted, I ended up doing 90% of the drawings myself because it turned out to be easier than continuously having to correct the mistakes of the draftsman....
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The Complete Guide to Securing Your Own U.S. Patent: A Step-by-Step Road Map to Protect Your Ideas and Inventions - With Companion CD-ROM

The Complete Guide to Securing Your Own U.S. Patent: A Step-by-Step Road Map to Protect Your Ideas and Inventions - With Companion CD-ROM

By Jamaine Burrell
What do all of these famous inventions have in common: air conditioning, airbags, bandages, barbed wire, blow dryers, can openers, cement, chewing gum, computers, credit cards, doughnuts, jeans, micro...
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A Sense of Urgency

A Sense of Urgency

By John P. Kotter
But now a distinguished author says that what so many of us really lack is a sense of urgency. Is this guy for real? He is. John Kotter, emeritus professor at Harvard Business School, has a clear and
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Leading Change

Leading Change

By John P. Kotter
Harvard Business School professor Kotter (A Force for Change) breaks from the mold of M.B.A. jargon-filled texts to produce a truly accessible, clear and visionary guide to the business world's buzzwo...
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Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

By John P. Kotter
John Kotter has been on the faculty at Harvard Business School since 1972. He is the author of eleven award-winning titles and frequently gives speeches and seminars at Harvard and around the world.
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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

By John P. Kotter
The Heart of Change is the follow-up to John Kotter's enormously popular book Leading Change, in which he outlines a framework for implementing change that sidesteps many of the pitfalls common to org...
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

By Peter F. Drucker
This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial...
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Creative Collaboration

Creative Collaboration

By Vera John-Steiner
"Vera John-Steiner contributes to this intellectual effort in Creative Collaboration. Her research attempts to deepen our understanding of creative achievement by exploring the relational contexts of
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A Technique for Producing Ideas

A Technique for Producing Ideas

By James Webb Young
This little book that can likely be read in about 30-45 minutes, is essentially a primer for how to go about generating ideas. Instead of handing you a fish, this book teaches you how to fish... to us...
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The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World

The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World

By Amar Bhidé
Bhidé makes a detailed argument that contradicts the prevailing view of expert panels and authors who contend that the nation's prosperity is threatened by the technological rise of China and India,
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Scamper On: More Creative Games and Activities for Imagination Development

Scamper On: More Creative Games and Activities for Imagination Development

By Bob Eberle
Scamper and Scamper On allow your students to develop their imaginations through a series of guided activities in which they imagine different events or things. "Scamper" is a creative thinking techni...
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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

By Denis Dutton
Denis Dutton considers art from a Darwinian perspective and presents a survey of the aesthetic debate. Where Steven Pinker helps us understand the origins of human language, Dutton offers insights int...
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The Power of Innovation: How to Make Innovation a Way of Life & How to Put Creative Solutions to Work

The Power of Innovation: How to Make Innovation a Way of Life & How to Put Creative Solutions to Work

By Min Basadur
This book offers a unified process for releasing creativity and innovation in individuals, groups, and organizations. A highly effective process that can leverage the creative thinking skills of e...
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Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures

Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures

By Robert B. Tucker
Business managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth. Greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Robert B. Tucker provides a practical method any business...
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New think: The use of lateral thinking in the generation of new ideas

New think: The use of lateral thinking in the generation of new ideas

By Edward de Bono
This 1967 seminal work defines the author's theory of lateral thinking as a method changing concepts and perception in order to happen upon novel and unexpected solutions to problems. The book offers
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Techniques of Structured Problems

Techniques of Structured Problems

By Arthur B. VanGundy
This is one of the most serious and definitive books on the subject of creative problem solving. It is full of thinking techniques for the specific steps of the creative problem solving process along
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Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future

Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future

By Andrew Razeghi
What are the connotations when you hear or see the word "Hope"? Is it an intangible concept? An esoteric notion? Razeghi, a writer, educator, and innovator demonstrates through illustrative storyt...
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Pretend You're Normal

Pretend You're Normal

By Ann Weimer Baumgardner
Pretend You're Normal was an Award-Winning Finalist in the humor category of the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards and several of Ann's stories have been printed in The Christian Science Moni...
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Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement

Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement

By Clint Swindall
There are two kinds of employees—engaged and disengaged. Engaged employees are those who are dedicated to the organization's vision and eager to contribute. They are productive and live by the organ...
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