We live in the Age of Knowledge but we are heading towards the Age of Imagination. However, our current education systems still divide arts and business, juxtaposing them as different worlds, apparently ignoring the essential truth that imagination is the springboard of innovation. For business to continue to evolve, the barriers to creativity and innovation must be lowered.

In Innovation and the Arts: The Value of Humanities Studies for Business, editors Piero Formica and John Edmondson bring together a cast of expert contributors to explore how arts education can transform future business and social endeavours by developing empathy and enhancing skills frequently identified as lacking in graduates entering the workplace. Looking at arts and humanities across the broad spectrum of business and social innovation, and in the context of business education, examples of entrepreneurial and innovative developments, and the nature of the innovative mind, the contributors show how underdeveloped empathy and creativity constrain innovation. Art is disruptive, and innovation requires disruption to thrive.

By dwelling on the need for the convergence of business, innovation and the arts, Innovation and the Arts highlights the inestimable value of lowering the psychological, organizational and institutional barriers that keep them apart. For educators and practitioners, this is an in-depth discussion designed to stimulate awareness of the issues facing business education.

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Innovation and the Arts
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Contributors
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Business, Innovation and the Arts: The Golden Encounter
Chapter 2: The Golden Path Towards the Arts In/With Business
Chapter 3: Teaching Intangibles: Uncertainty and Imperfection and the Institutional Challenge of the Unmeasurable
Chapter 4: On Regarding the Value of Aesthetics for Entrepreneurship
Chapter 5: The True Value of ‘Doing Well’ Economically
Chapter 6: Beyond the ‘Great Derangement’: Will the Humanities Lead Ecological Transition?
Chapter 7: Move Slow and Nurture Things: Wise Creativity and Human-Centred Values in a World that Idolizes Disruption
Chapter 8: How Businesses Can Benefit from Collaborating with the Arts
Chapter 9: The Arts as an Economic Driver in an Era of Exponential Technologies: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur’s Perspective
Chapter 10: Leadership in Business, Innovation and Art: Lessons Learnt from an Orchestra Conductor
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