TY - BOOK AU - Howkins, John TI - Creative ecologies : : where thinking is a proper job SN - 9781412814287 AV - 650.13 H84c PY - 2010/// CY - New Brunswick PB - Transaction Publishers KW - Creative ability in business KW - Economics KW - Success in business N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The challenge -- First ideas -- Scope and scale -- The adaptive mind -- Creative places -- Negotiating uncertainty -- The way forward -- New places, new policies -- Three steps to growth -- The new billion N2 - In this book, the author identifies an ecology of thinking and learning based on how people create, develop and share ideas. It shows the conditions for successful thinking and learning, as well how we handle ideas and knowledge, both our own and other people's, and how this affects networks and markets. ER -