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The Innovation Blind Spot: Why We Back the Wrong Ideas--and What to Do About It

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By (author): Ross Baird

Our innovation economy is broken. But there's good news: The ideas that will solve our problems are hiding in plain sight.  

While big companies in the American economy have never been more successful, entrepreneurial activity is near a 30-year low. More businesses are dying than starting every day. Investors continue to dump billions of dollars into photo-sharing apps and food-delivery services, solving problems for only a wealthy sliver of the world's population, while challenges in health, food security, and education grow more serious. 

In The Innovation Blind Spot, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ross Baird argues that the innovations that truly matter don't see the light of dayfor reasons entirely of our own making. A handful of people in a handful of cities are deciding, behind closed doors, which entrepreneurs get a shot to succeed. And most investors are what Baird calls two-pocket thinkersartificially separating their charitable work from their day job of making a profit. 

The resulting system creates rising income inequality, stifled entrepreneurial ambition, social distrust, and political uncertainty. Our innovation problem makes all our other problems harder to solve. In this book, Baird demonstrates how and where to find better ideas by lifting up people, places, and industries that are often overlooked. What's more, Baird ultimately outlines how to create long-term success through one-pocket thinkingeliminating the blind spot that separates what we do for a living and what we really care about. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 237g
  • Dimensions: 131 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Oct 2018
  • Publisher: BenBella Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781946885555

About Ross Baird

Ross Baird is an entrepreneur and investor who is best known for finding developing and investing in entrepreneurs in places and industries where most people aren't looking. He founded Village Capital in 2009 and has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs in over fifty countries since then. He has visited over a hundred cities worldwide by train plane and bus in an effort to find new entrepreneurs and help people supporting them and he and Village Capital have partnered with over twenty Fortune 500 companies to help large institutions uncover new innovations. Before joining Village Capital Ross worked for a venture capital firm and was on the founding team of four different startups.  Ross and his work have been featured by more than fifty media outlets including the New York Times Bloomberg Business Week Inc. and FastCompany. He has also lectured in entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia since 2012. He has a MPhil from the University of Oxford where he was a Marshall Scholar and a BA from the University of Virginia where he was a Truman Scholar and a Jefferson Scholar.

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