Innovation

Pick one example of innovation (any example that quickly comes to mind) and break it down into its attributes. To the best of your ability, describe the nature, type, social context, means and aim of the innovation. We’ll leave the stages of innovation out for this question as you might need to do some research to figure that out.

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In Cooking Under Fire, the authors compared chefs from two different countries – Germany and Britain. What two differences did the authors observe between chefs in the two countries? Do these differences make chefs from one country more equipped to manage the tensions between creativity and innovation that are discussed in the paper? If so, why?

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Cooking Under Fire focuses on the relationship between creativity and innovation the role of the chef in being both the artist and the implementer of innovation. What other profession falls into a similar situation – the tensions between the identify of artist and implementer exist within one role? In what way are the tensions identical to those experienced by chefs and in what ways are they different? This wasn’t covered in the article – I’m looking for your own assessment.

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