Inventing the Almost Impossible: Creating, Teaching, Funding, and Leading Radical Innovation
暫譯: 發明幾乎不可能的事：創造、教學、資助與引領激進創新

尋求開創科學和技術突破，創造全新產業嗎？這本書將成為您的指導。它超越了專利，深入探討前瞻性、工程和商業的交集。探索像 ARPA-E、IKEA 和 H2 Green Steel 等知名組織的團隊如何創造激進的創新。通過關鍵分析、行業案例研究和教學範例，一群國際和跨學科的學者、實踐者和特立獨行者提供了實用的建議，以實現願景發展。無論您是尋求發明看似不可能的事物，還是解決尚未存在市場的問題，這本書都將為有意識的發明研究更新議程。它將激勵並挑戰您擴展思維，突破界限。

Tamara Carleton, PhD, is is an international expert in radical innovation. She is the CEO of Innovation Leadership Group, teaches at several top-ranked business schools and technical universities around the world, and is the lead author of Building Moonshots: 50+ Ways to Turn Radical Ideas into Reality and the Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation, which has been used by hundreds of teams to be more innovative.

Shaun West gained a PhD from Imperial College in London, Shaun worked for over 25 years in several businesses related to industrial services. He started his industrial career with AEA Technology before moving to National Power, where he developed and sold services to external businesses. After an MBA at HEC (Paris), he moved to GE Energy Services, modeling and negotiating long-term service agreements. At Sulzer, he drafted the strategy that led to the service division tripling in size over ten years and executed part of the strategy by acquiring a 220M CHF service business. Now at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, he is the Professor of Product-Service System Innovation. He focuses his research on supporting industrial firms to develop and deliver new services and service-friendly business models. He is passionate with exploring complex systems to understand the problems better and to build better solutions faster. He is a member of the advisory board for ASAP Service Management Forum and a member of the Swiss Alliance of Data-Intensives Services. Shaun lives close to Zurich with his wife and two children. He climbs, skis and runs.

William Cockayne, PhD, is a techno-optimistic leader with a passion for transforming science fiction into reality. For twenty years, he taught students at Stanford University how teams imagine, invent, and ship the future. Cockayne has been at the forefront of emerging technologies for decades, notably virtual reality. He founded and ran an early VR sites list in the mid-1990s and was part of a ground-breaking, DARPA-funded biomedical research program at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He has founded multiple startups, directed Kodak's venture incubator in Silicon Valley, was a researcher at the Mercedes-Benz R&D center in North America, and worked as an engineer at Apple in his early days.

博士，是一位國際知名的激進創新專家。她是創新領導集團的首席執行官，並在全球多所頂尖商學院和技術大學任教，同時也是《Building Moonshots: 50+ Ways to Turn Radical Ideas into Reality》和《Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation》的主要作者，這些書籍已被數百個團隊用來提升創新能力。

在倫敦的帝國學院獲得博士學位，Shaun在多個與工業服務相關的企業工作了超過25年。他的工業生涯始於AEA Technology，隨後轉至National Power，在那裡他開發並銷售服務給外部企業。在HEC（巴黎）獲得MBA後，他轉至GE Energy Services，負責建模和談判長期服務協議。在Sulzer，他起草了使服務部門在十年間規模增長三倍的策略，並通過收購一個價值2.2億瑞士法郎的服務業務來執行部分策略。現在在盧塞恩應用科學與藝術大學擔任產品服務系統創新教授。他的研究重點是支持工業公司開發和提供新服務及服務友好的商業模式。他熱衷於探索複雜系統，以更好地理解問題並更快地構建更好的解決方案。他是ASAP服務管理論壇的顧問委員會成員，也是瑞士數據密集型服務聯盟的成員。Shaun與妻子和兩個孩子住在蘇黎世附近，喜歡攀岩、滑雪和跑步。

，博士，是一位對將科幻變為現實充滿熱情的科技樂觀主義者。在過去的二十年中，他在斯坦福大學教授學生如何讓團隊想像、發明和實現未來。Cockayne在新興技術的前沿工作了幾十年，特別是在虛擬現實領域。他在1990年代中期創立並運營了一個早期的虛擬現實網站列表，並參與了美國海軍研究生院的一個開創性、由DARPA資助的生物醫學研究計劃。他創立了多家初創公司，曾在硅谷負責Kodak的風險投資孵化器，並在北美的梅賽德斯-奔馳研發中心擔任研究員，早期在Apple擔任工程師。