Innovation a very short introduction looks at what innovation is and how it affects us it examines how it occurs who stimulates it how it is pursued and what its outcomes are both positive and negative innovation is challenging and failure is common yet it is essential to our social and economic progress innovation is used to create wealth productivity growth and improved quality of life this vsi considers the extent to which our understanding of innovation developed over the . Innovation a very short introduction looks at what innovation is and why it affects us so profoundly it examines how it occurs who stimulates it how it is pursued its outcomes both positive and negative and how it plays an essential role in economic and social development. This very short introduction looks at what innovation is and why it affects us so profoundly it examines how it occurs who stimulates it how it is pursued and what its outcomes are both positive and negative considering innovation today and discussing future disruptive technologies such as ai which have important implications for work and employment mark dodgson and david gann consider the extent to which our understanding of innovation has developed over the past century and how it . Very short introductions demonstrates how innovation is used to create wealth productivity growth and improved quality of life considers future disruptive technologies such as ai discussing their implications for work and employment looks at the process of innovation the ways organizations use their resources to innovate and the eventual outcomes of innovation