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Book SynopsisDifferent theories, models and narratives of innovation compete for both legitimacy and authority. However, despite the variations, they all offer a consistent pro-innovation bias, dismissing resistance as irrational, and overlooking the value of non-users and collateral impacts. This book asks, what has been left out? It offers a reflexive view and invites researchers to consider new avenues of research, through a critique of current representations of innovation.
The chapters provide a different viewpoint on innovation by exploring what has been omitted from traditional innovation studies. The book examines imitation, non-innovative roles, resistance to innovation, slow innovation, the rationale of non-users, failure, withdrawal, collateral impacts and alternative models. Calling for new definitions and frameworks, the editors have created a critical program for innovation studies with new avenues for future research.
Offering state-of-the-art discussion of theories, models, narratives and ideologies of innovation and alternative approaches, this book will be an essential resource for scholars in technology and innovation, management, engineering, political and social sciences. It will also appeal to policy-makers in the science and technology sector.
Contributors include: C. Bagattolli, M.W. Bauer, L. Becerra, K. Berglund, T. Brandão, C. Cañibano, M.I. Encinar, G. Gaglio, S. Garrido, B. Godin, F. Goulet, J. Juhl, J. Langrish, K.-H. Leitner, F.-F. Muñoz, S.M. Pfotenhauer, B. Segercrantz, J. Söderberg, K.-E. Sveiby, H. Thomas, D. Vinck, L. Vinsel
Trade Review‘There is much to explore in this volume, and much to look forward to as future scholars build upon it.. . . An interdisciplinary book such as Critical Studies of Innovation is a treasure because wrestling with these unique, and varying, perspectives can yield new insights to the -- curious and patient reader.’– Logan D. A. Williams, Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
‘Critical Studies of Innovation is a critically important and seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended for both college and university library collections and supplemental studies reading lists.’ -- Midwest Book Review
‘This book provides an indispensable collection of insights into the world outside the nimbus of superiority that surrounds innovation to this day. The book is a treasure trove for any student and scholar and a must-have for any library!' -- Foresight
Table of ContentsContents: Innovation: From the Forbidden to a Cliché Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck Part I Problematic frameworks and narratives of innovation 1. Why is Imitation not Innovation? Benoît Godin 2. “Innovation fads” as an alternative research topic to pro-innovation bias. The examples of Jugaad and reverse innovation Gérald Gaglio 3. ‘Best practices’ as mimesis? Innovation policies in peripheral countries Tiago Brandão and Carolina Bagattolli 4. Innovation and the political state: Beyond the myth of technology and markets Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer and Joakim Juhl Part II What is left with the pro-innovation bias 5. Moving towards innovation through withdrawal: the neglect of destruction Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck 6. Comparing two cases of outlaw innovation: file sharing and legal highs Johan Söderberg 7. Unattended consequences of innovation Karl-Erik Sveiby Part III Reactions to innovation 8. Resistance as a latent factor of innovation Martin W. Bauer 9. Socio-technical dynamics of counter-hegemony and resistance Hernan Thomas, Lucas Becerra and Santiago Garrido 10. “No” and “slow” innovation strategies as a response to increased innovation speed Karl-Heinz Leitner Part IV Alternatives frameworks 11. Learning thanks to innovation failure Dominique Vinck 12. The economic rationality of NOvative behavior Carolina Cañibano, María-Isabel Encinar and Félix-Fernando Muñoz 13. Regulatory enforcement as sociotechnical systems maintenance Lee Vinsel 14. A discourse analysis of innovation in academic management literature Beata Segercrantz, Karl-Erik Sveiby and Karin Berglund 15. Physics or biology as models for the study of innovation John Langrish Conclusion: Toward Critical Studies of Innovation Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck Index
