Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation: The Lynceus Long View

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Wonder Generation: Adolescent Entrepreneurs of Generation Y, New Stars of Innovation....Pages 2-5
The Lynceus Long View....Pages 6-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Self-Portrait with Thoughts of a Millennial, Youthful Knowledge Nomad....Pages 22-26
An Italian Millennial Fleeing His Country....Pages 27-31
Innovation: A Disquieting Muse....Pages 32-35
A Voyage to Innoland, Island of Innovation: Tales of a Modern Gulliver....Pages 36-47
In Praise of the Black Sheep: The Country that I Would Like....Pages 48-51
War and Peace: Destructive Creativity and Creative Destruction....Pages 52-56
Three Visitors in the Emerald City....Pages 57-65
The Expulsion of the Oblomovs: From the Cult of Concealment to the Practice of Innovation....Pages 66-69
In the Kingdom of Zenda: Prisoners of Success....Pages 70-75
Front Matter....Pages 76-76
Mr X, or, the Anxieties of the Forgotten Man....Pages 77-81
Extracts of a Report of the Ambassador of Αριθμóσ to Oeconomicus....Pages 82-85
‘On Beauty’: Three Scherzos Played on the World Economy Stage....Pages 86-88
The War of the Two ‘F’s and the Decisive Intervention of ‘E’....Pages 89-97
Autobiographical Sketches of Kidnapped Europe and Titanic Asia: A Tale of the Future Foreseen....Pages 98-102
Innovation in the Academic World: A New Mission for University Old Stars....Pages 103-107
A Dialogue Between Start-up Entrepreneurs Crusoe and Gulliver — Gulliver Teaches Crusoe the Physics of Entrepreneurship....Pages 108-114
The Spider’s Webs of Mr F and Mr M....Pages 115-119
The Red Thread of Coffee....Pages 120-126
Subterranean Currents: Trade Relations between the Middle Kingdom and Arabia Felix in the Digital Age....Pages 127-133
An Interview with Maison Dubai’s Style Director....Pages 134-138
Letter to the Millennial Students of Tartu University....Pages 139-141
Epilogue: Learning How Events Not Supposed to Happen, Happen....Pages 142-145
Back Matter....Pages 146-149