Patricia Carter Sluby

The Entrepreneurial Spirit of African American Inventors (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts these achievements into context of the obstacles these innovators faced because of their race.

Successful entrepreneurs and inventors share valuable characteristics like self-confidence, perseverance, and the ability to conceptualize unrealized solutions or opportunities. However, another personality trait has been required for African Americans wishing to become business owners, creative thinkers, or patent holders: a willingness to overcome the additional barriers placed before them because of their race, especially in the era before civil rights.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit of African American Inventors provides historical accounts of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship among black Americans, from the 19th century to the present day. The author examines how these individuals stimulated industry, business activity, and research, helping shape the world as we know it and setting the precedent for the minority business tradition in the United States. This book also sheds light on fascinating advances made in metallurgy, medicine, architecture, and other fields that supply further examples of scientific inquiry and business acumen among African Americans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313363368
• Artikelnr.: 37835825

Autorenporträt

Patricia Carter Sluby is a Registered Patent Agent and a former United States primary patent examiner. She is also a lecturer and freelance writer who has appeared on television and radio shows to discuss minority inventors. She is the past president of the National Intellectual Property Law Association. Her book Creativity and Inventions: The Genius of Afro-Americans and Women in the United States and Their Patents (1987) details the inventive nature of minorities in America.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Setting the Stage: Early Inventive
Spirit 2. Self-Help-a Beginning: Business in the Making 3. Following Their
Passion-in the Marketplace 4. Commercialized Concepts: Capital and
Enterprises of Today 5. Epilogue Appendix: Roster of African American
Patentees: Utility and Design Grants from 1821 Notes Bibliography Index