Klaus Schwab and Pamela Hartigan - Social Innovators with a Business Case: Facing 21st Century Challenges One Market at a Time (2006)

 

Intro

 

If there is one thing about which public and corporate leaders around the world today can agree, it is the ever-growing importance of innovation. The search for innovative solutions to the world’s myriad local, national and global challenges has become a clarion call rallying people across multiple borders defined by nation, industry, and academic discipline. Yet policy making reflects deep ambivalence about innovation. The cheerleading over innovation exists in contrast to the myr- iad institutional, legal, regulatory, and educational impediments to the work of innovators.