• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
  by Clayton M. Christensen / Harvard Business School Press
• Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies by Day, Schoemaker, Gunther/ J. Wiley

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• Introduction to Disruptive Technology
• Schilling Ch 1 - Importance of Innovation
• Schilling Ch 2 - Sources of Innovation
• Schilling Ch 3 - Types of Innovation
• Schilling Ch 4 - Standards Battles
• Navigating the Technology Landscape of Innovation
• The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman Video lecture at MIT
• Schilling Ch 5- Timing of Entry
• Schilling Ch 6 - Organization's Strategic Direction
• The Innovation Economy: How Technology Is Transforming Existing Industries and Creating New Ones, Clayton Christensen Video lecture at MITWorld
• Schilling Ch 7 - Choosing Innovation Projects
• The Networked World: Are We Ready For It? Lou V. Gerstner Video lecture at MITWorld
• Schilling Ch 9 - Protecting Innovation
• Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law Video lecture at TED.com

• Swarm Intelligence - Stefan Rummel
• Biofuels - Arno Fortelny (pdf)
• Wireless Electricity - Gavriel Gavrilov & Aleksandr Zaltsman
• Personalized Medical Monitors - Dana Halwani
• MetaMaterials - Irina Dayanov
• BioEngineering - Naho Kaneko
• Vito Laudadio - Gene Programming

Assignments/Articles

1.	What is catalytic innovation?
2.	How does it differ from disruptive innovation? How is it similar? 
3.	Describe a catalytic innovation in health care and how it was successful. 
4.	What is microlending and what has been its impact on society? 
5.	How has microlending had a positive impact on KickStart?
6. Where do catalytic innovations fall on the technology S-curve? Would you say that they have the potential of "segment-zero" products?

• The Weird Rules of Creativity
• Dean Kamen
• The Mind of an Inventor Danny Hillis