Annotated Bibliography
“Cardiac Pacemakers,” animalresearch.com
https://www.animalresearch.info/en/medical-advances/medical-discovery-timeline/cardiac-pacemakers/
This website explores the history of the cardiac pacemaker with a brief video and brief explanations of two engineers who were working on them in two different countries around the same time.
Bhattacharya, Rohit, “11 of the Most Famous Accidental Inventions Ever,” https://www.scoopwhoop.com/inothernews/invented-by-accident/
This article is about eleven famous accidental inventions.
Daugherty, Greg, “Who Invented the Potato Chip?” History, February 3, 2021,
https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-potato-chip-saratoga
This article sheds more light on the conflicting stories about several people who claimed credit for inventing the potato chip.
Durst, Carolin, “How Failure Impacts Innovation,” Innovation Culture (blog), May 14, 2018, https://www.itonics-innovation.com/blog/how-failure-does-or-does-not-impact-innovation/
This blog encourages people to stop making excuses for failure and find a way to innovate.
Dweck, Carol, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (New York: Ballantine Books, 2008), 6, 66.
This book explains the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset and encourages a move toward the growth mindset.
Greenwald, Morgan “30 Life-Changing Inventions That Were Totally Accidental,” BestLife,
September 25, 2018, https://bestlifeonline.com/accidental-inventions/
This article lists 30 accidental inventions and how they were created.
Hess, Edward, “Creating an Innovation Culture: Accepting Failure as Necessary,” Forbes, June 20, 2012, https://www.forbes.com/sites/darden/2012/06/20/creating-an-innovation-culture-accepting-failure-is-necessary/?sh=5ade9210754e
This is a brief article that supports the fact that entrepreneurs and technology-disrupting companies recognize the necessity of failure in coming up with novel ideas.
Johnson, Steven, Where Good Ideas Come From (New York: Riverhead Books, 2010), 25-42.
This book provided the introduction to innovative thinking for the course I took at Yale, “Human-Centered Design of Biotechnology” taught by Professor Anjelica Gonzales.
Juliani, A.J., “10 Design Thinking Activities to Get Your Group Creating,” http://ajjuliani.com/design-thinking-activities/
This website provides design thinking activities that can be used in the classroom.
Krueger, Alyson, “15 Life-Changing Inventions That Were Created by Mistake,” Insider, November 16, 2010, https://www.businessinsider.com/these-10-inventions-were-made-by-mistake-2010-11
This article provided more examples of inventions that were created by mistake.
Liedtka, Jeanne, “Why Design Thinking Works,” Harvard Business Review (2018), 72.
This article explains why design thinking works.
McDuffee, Samantha, “Innovation in Companies: Reward Failure & Get Results,” TeamBonding (blog), September 13, 2019.
https://www.teambonding.com/innovation-in-companies-reward-failure/
This article provides a different perspective on how companies should respond to failure by suggesting that they should reward failure. It increases the sharing of ideas and speeds up the process of innovation.
Mehta, Kumar, “How to Turn an Innovation Failure into a Success,” Forbes, March 11, 2019,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kmehta/2019/03/11/how-to-turn-an-innovation-failure-into-success/?sh=5a19e39f3fc7
This article gives advice about how to convert an innovation failure into a success.
Pferdt, Frederik G., “Design thinking in 3 steps: How to build a culture of innovation,” Think with Google, October 2019,
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/future-of-marketing/creativity/design-thinking-principles/
Google provides a tutorial on how to increase the capacity to innovate from a business perspective by focusing on 3 design thinking principles-empathy, expansive thinking, and experimentation.
Roberson, Sam, “Developing Student Success Through Persistence: Teaching More Than Content,” Education.141, no. 2 (2020):83+ Gale in Context: Biography (accessed July 14, 2021). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A664798150/BIC?u=upenn_main&sid=summon&xid=9bff7919
This article stresses the importance of helping to change student mindsets so that they can persevere, which is as important as learning content.
Shoemaker, Paul, “Why Failure is the Foundation of Innovation,” Inc, May 13, 2012,
https://www.inc.com/paul-schoemaker/brilliant-failures/why-failure-is-the-foundation-of-innovation.html
This article re-iterates the need to welcome and learn from mistakes.
Sloane, Paul, “Failure is the Mother of Invention,” Innovation Management, October 13, 2004
https://innovationmanagement.se/2004/10/13/failure-is-the-mother-of-innovation/
This editorial demonstrates how failures can actually lead to new innovations.
Wardle, Duncan, “Fail, Fail, and Fail Again—The Secret to Innovation,” January 3, 2020, https://duncanwardle.com/why-failure-is-the-secret-to-innovation/
This article provides more support for why making mistakes often leads to new discoveries.
White, Kevin, “Innovation and Failure: Learning the Route to Success,” IDEASCALE (blog), https://ideascale.com/learning-from-failure/
This is one final article which states what we have been saying all along about the relationship between failure and innovation.
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