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Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-58).

1. Innovation attitudes -- "Best in the world" -- Current innovation incentives and barriers -- The rise of severe crises: too big and quick to not fail -- Mindless innovation and consumption -- Defining the need -- Towards sustainable innovation --

2. Inspiration from the natural and behavioral sciences -- "Extreme innovation" -- Natural superior innovation -- Synthetic superior innovation -- Superior behavioral scenarios and the "plurosis" principle --

3. Untapped sustainable innovation potential -- Sustainability -- Responsibility -- Superiority -- Peace -- Before you begin: sustainable innovation requirements checklist --

4. Step-by-step guide to sustainable innovation -- A word about interaction dynamics -- Before you begin: sustainable innovation attitudes checklist -- Overview of steps I - IX -- Steps I - IX: questions section --

5. Notes on the application to 21st century challenges -- Sustainable energy production and consumption (steps I - III) -- Environmentally-friendly, abundant food production (steps III - V) -- Control of emerging diseases (steps VI - VIII) -- Verbal disputes and constructive freedom of speech (steps IV - V, IX) --

6. Personal step-by-step work section --

7. Looking to the future -- Impact of sustainable innovation -- Consequences of global competition -- A global win-win scenario -- Inspirational reading --

A. Notes on teaching sustainable innovation -- B. Examples of unlikely combinations parameters -- C. Sustainable innovation requirements checklist -- D. Sustainable innovation attitudes checklist -- E. Examples of drivers and barriers to sustainable innovation --

Other books by the author -- Secrets to success in industry careers: essential skills for science and business -- Industry immersion learning: real-life case studies in biotechnology and business -- Out of the comfort zone: new ways to teach, learn, and assess essential professional skills -- Author's biography.

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Many of us wish we could design inventions and make decisions that were optimal and sustainable, but we do not know how to begin the approach. This book offers a guide to dramatically improve the quality of innovation and solution-making through the respectful use of existing and abundant, but often-ignored, resources. Sustainable innovation is about creative combination of ideas, materials, methods, and people, courage to derive value from opposition and diversity, integrative intelligence, virtuous planning, minimal consumption of resources, and definition of alternative plans. Using the method successfully requires that we are truly interested in the common good of humankind, that we care about our environment, and that we take time to think carefully about consequences before we act, invent, or make decisions. It is a call for a much-needed collaboration between people of different backgrounds, skills, and opinions with the intent to preserve individual and local integrity and adapt a win-win mindset. Try it, and partake in its positive and long-lasting effects!

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