Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs

Innovation Bibliography

Scores of books about innovation are published every year (or does it only feel that way?). Some of them are even worth reading. Here are some of our favorites from over the years. The ones marked with stars should be in the personal library of any serious innovator.

Innovation Classics: Useful Basics

• Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press, 1962) http://tentyp.es/PZHbre
• Everett M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations (Free Press of Glencoe, 1962) http://tentyp.es/T6MMjx

Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Harper & Row, 1985) http://tentyp.es/Rgnfjx

• Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)http://tentyp.es/RgmLdb

Harvard Business Review on Innovation (Harvard Business School Publishing, 2001) http://tentyp.es/VBiYL6

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, The Innovator’s Solution (Harvard Business School Press, 2003) http://tentyp.es/PZHxhL

Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2003) http://tentyp.es/WqOyut

• Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) http://tentyp.es/TG9BJj

Roger L. Martin, The Design of Business (Harvard Business School Press, 2009) http://tentyp.es/RgnoTW

• Steven B. Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From (Riverhead, 2010) http://tentyp.es/OG7MNj

Innovation Strategy: Framing, Patterns, and Choices

• James M. Utterback, Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation (Harvard Business ...