New Issue of Innovations Journal

The Spring 2009 issue is out. It is focused on "Resilience in a Turbulent World." You'll find it here, and several articles are online for free.

Table of Contents: Resilience in a Turbulent World

Lead Essays

• The Upside of the Downturn: How Sustainable Banking Can Deliver a Better Future, by Peter Blom


• Collective Leadership and Overlapping Vital Interests: The Unrealized Power of Megacommunities, by Reginald Van Lee, Mark J. Gerencser, Chris Kelly, Robin Portman

Cases Authored by Innovators

• Changing the Landscape of Power (Innovations Case Narrative: Amazon Conservation Team), by Mark J. Plotkin


• A Conservation Ethic in Practice: Preserving Cultural and Biodiversity by Bridging the Generational Knowledge Base (Innovations Case Discussion: Amazon Conservation Team), by Norka Ruiz Bravo


• Kiva at Four (Innovations Case Narrative: Kiva), by Matt Flannery


• Building on Kiva's Success: Can Kiva Lenders Influence U.S. Foreign Aid Policy? (Innovations Case Discussion: Kiva), by Sam Daley-Harris

Analysis

• The Economics of Branchless Banking, by Ignacio Mas


• Designing Mobile Money Services Lessons from M-PESA, by Ignacio Mas and Olga Morawczynski


• Best Responders: Post-Katrina Innovation and Improvisation by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Coast Guard, by Steven Horwitz


• Identifying Disruptive Innovation: Innovation Theory and the Defense Industry, by Peter Dombrowski, Eugene Gholz

Perspectives on Policy

• Creative Discovery: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Innovation, by Dane Stangler


• Insure to Assure: A New Paradigm for Nuclear Nonproliferation and International Security, by Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, Debra K. Decker