Teaching innovation to technologists (non-business people) and non-technologists (business people): Scotch Whisky as an exemplar of process changing product an alternative to traditional lectures

Jonathan D. Linton

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2015, vol. 100, issue C, 39-43

Abstract: Technologists and non-technologists have different perspectives that complicate their understanding of innovation. The taste and smell of Scotch Whisky is offered as a sensual experience (smell and/or taste) to assist people in gaining an understanding and appreciation of how process innovation leads to and is intertwined with product innovation for foods, chemical and engineered materials. The contribution of this paper is to demonstrate how to enhance learning and understanding about innovation through a straightforward exercise in experiential learning.

Keywords: Pedagogy; Case; Demonstration; Process innovation; Whisky (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.05.001

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