Innovation Government

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    • The Economic Developer's Guide to Our Future
    • By: Petra Soderling
    • Narrated by: Petra Soderling
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-24
    • Language: English
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    • A book that looks at how local, regional, and national governments can use existing instruments to steer their economies to include more innovative industries that provide a higher economic value-add.

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists
    • By: Audrey Kurth Cronin
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state....

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    • How Front-Line Leaders Are Transforming Public-Sector Organizations
    • By: Alan G. Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants an efficient government. Traditional thinking is that this requires a government to be run more like a business. But a government is not a business, and this approach merely replaces old problems with new ones....

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    • Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,868 ratings
    • How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life....

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    • Healthcare and Innovation
    • By: James B. Rebitzer, Robert S. Rebitzer
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper? In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question....

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    • Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time
    • By: Jim McKelvey
    • Narrated by: Jim McKelvey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 989 ratings
    • From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company....

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    • How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
    • By: David Owen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about being green is wrong....

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    • How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
    • By: Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century....

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    • How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy
    • By: Neil Lee
    • Narrated by: Keval Shah
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Economist Neil Lee draws on case studies of Taiwan, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland to set out how innovation can be successfully balanced toward equity....

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    • How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
    • By: Benjamin Shestakofsky
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
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    • Behind the Startup focuses on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on 19 months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.

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    • Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences
    • By: M. Watkins, H. Shulman
    • Narrated by: Claire Simon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology....

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    • Inside DARPA, the Path-Breaking Government Agency You've Never Heard Of
    • By: Michael Belfiore
    • Narrated by: Michael Belfiore
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • The first-ever inside look at DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications....

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    • Elemental Gatherers, Book 8
    • By: Chris Vines
    • Narrated by: Kristian Eros
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Chaos looms over the beloved realm of Zemia. As Darkness and Light confront their greatest challenge, the Chosen – Aiden, Anthony, and Julia – wield newfound powers to combat the encroaching forces.

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    • The History of England from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Series: The History of England, Book 6
    • Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd’s magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millenium Dome....

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    • How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
    • By: Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges....

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    • How Play Made the Modern World
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • This history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change....

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    • How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
    • By: Edmund Phelps
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper....

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    • Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
    • By: Varun Sivaram
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Solar energy has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless. But in Taming the Sun, energy expert Varun Sivaram warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs....

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