Innovation Ecosystems: How Driving Forces and Success Factors Affect Opportunities for Business Innovation

This book is about geography, economics, society, and innovation. Why did different regions evolve in different ways? The author believes that happenstance played a relatively minor role in this process.

William B. Rouse, Ph.D., is a Research Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has served on the facul7es of Tuon (Routledge, 2023), Transforming Public-Private Ecosystems (Oxford, 2022), Failure Management (Oxford, 2021), and Compu>ng Possible Futures (Oxford, 2019).

Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the committee on Human Factors (now Board on Human Systems Integra7on) of the Na7onal Academies, a member of the advisory committee for the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the Na7onal Academies, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scien7fic Advisory Board, and a member of the DoD
Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation. He has been designated a life7me Na7onal Associate of the Na7onal Research Council and National Academies.

Rouse is an elected member of the Na7onal Academy of Engineering and has been elected a fellow of four professional societies -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Institute for Opera7ons Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). He received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.