 | The Art Of Innovation: Success Through Innovation the IDEO Way by Kelley & Litt.
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.91 Very accessible and easy to read book. Covers IDEO's approach to innovation and is a compelling read. Lots of ideas and stories that brings innovation to life. You get an insight into the passion!
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 | How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate by Andrew Hargadon
Buy new: £21.24 / Used from: £13.00 This book, for me, is one of the missing links in understanding how innovation works in practice. The main tenet of this book is that innovation results from recombining existing ideas.
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 | The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £6.00 Great book. Compelling and easy to read. Contains lots of thought provoking material. It is a good compliment to Andrew Hargadon's book above.
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 | Mastering the Hype Cycle: How to Choose the Right Innovation at the Right Time by Jackie Fenn
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £5.00 This book is slightly different and the others in this list and provides a process for assessing external innovations. Well written and practical.
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 | The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall E. Stross
Buy new: £6.84 / Used from: £9.55 In the context of this list, I would read some of the more theoretical books first, then this one. It provides insights into the trials and tribulations of a real innovators life! Compelling.
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 | The Truth About Innovation by Max Mckeown
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £4.42 Only came across this book recently and it is a great read. Lots of really useful reference material and well constructed and thoughtful.
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 | Did You Spot the Gorilla?: How to Recognise the Hidden Opportunities in Your Life by Richard Wiseman
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £1.26 A short, but really insightful book. Well worth reading and provides insight into those breakthrough observations.
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 | Making Innovation Work: How to Manage it, Measure it, and Profit from it by Tony Davila
Buy new: £12.58 / Used from: £9.30 This book focusses on the process of Innovation. The text is a bit dry, but the content is definitely worth persevering with. There are few books around that cover this area as well.
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 | They All Laughed by Ira Flatow
Buy used from: £1.09 Light-hearted look at how some of the world's most famous inventions came about. Look beneath the stories and you can start to see a set of patterns!
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 | Sticky Wisdom by Dave Allan
Buy new: £9.22 / Used from: £4.46 If you are looking for a book to help with the "idea generation" phase of your innovation project - this could well be the book for you! Very accessible and easy to read. Some great practical ideas.
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 | The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team by Paul Sloane
Buy new: £7.05 / Used from: £4.68 |
 | The Ten Faces of Innovation: Strategies for Heightening Creativity by Tom Kelley
Buy used from: £9.95 |
 | The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
Buy new: £14.73 / Used from: £1.77 |
 | The Oxford Handbook of Innovation (Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management)
Buy new: £24.31 / Used from: £24.81 |
 | Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £9.00 |
 | Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Buy used from: £8.50 |
 | Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius for Business and Beyond by Michael Michalko
Buy new: £9.85 / Used from: £7.26 |
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