Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation: The Lynceus Long View

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 Arithmos 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)

"Formica's attempt to shed substantive light on these connections will strongly help the trans-culturation and co-evolution of ideas among scholars, practitioners, students and, more widely, all those interested in innovation and entrepreneurship." - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation