Creating innovators / Wagner, Tony

Reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they have succeeded through the unconventional methods of parents, teachers, and mentors.

Examines the backgrounds of young innovators to see how they developed the creative minds to produce those innovations and examines what teachers, parents, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. Includes QR Codes within the text that can be accessed using a smart phone, linking the reader to videos and other information that expands on key ideas in the book.