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2015 | Book

Introduction: Knowing and Not Knowing Read chapter Read first chapter

The Role of Creative Ignorance: Portraits of Path Finders and Path Creators

Author: Piero Formica

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

The Role of Creative Ignorance outlines the importance of creative ignorance using narrative examples of innovators and companies worldwide.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction: Knowing and Not Knowing

Introduction: Knowing and Not Knowing
Abstract
In 1843, as he worked on his novel Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens wrote to his friend John Forster about the process of creativity:
As to the way in which these characters have opened out, that is, to me, one of the most surprising processes of the mind in this sort of invention. Given what one knows, what one does not know springs up; and I am as absolutely certain of its being true, as I am of the law of gravitation….1
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The Role of Creative Ignorance as a Willing Action

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1. Why Is Creative Ignorance Important?
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2. Introducing Path Finders and Path Creators
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3. The Embrace between Science and Entrepreneurship
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4. The Unity of Opposites
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5. Ambitious Entrepreneurs
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6. Creation Out of Nothing
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The Portraits

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7. Experimental Theatre: Path Finders and Path Creators Take to the Stage
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8. Portrait of Path Finders
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9. Path Finders of ‘Made in Italy’
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10. Portrait of Path Creators
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11. Looking for Path Creators of the Grand Unification between Manufacturing and Culture: The Case of the Opera Houses
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12. Path Creators of the Third Millennium University
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Epilogue: Traveling to the No Comfort Zone and Reaching the Flow Zone

Epilogue: Traveling to the No Comfort Zone and Reaching the Flow Zone
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Backmatter
Metadata
Title
The Role of Creative Ignorance: Portraits of Path Finders and Path Creators
Author
Piero Formica
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Electronic ISBN
978-1-137-49247-0
Print ISBN
978-1-349-50422-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492470

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