Critical Studies of Innovation

Contents:

Innovation: From the Forbidden to a Cliche
Benoit Godin and Dominique Vinck

Part I Problematic frameworks and narratives of innovation
1. Why is Imitation not Innovation?
Benoit Godin

2. "Innovation fads" as an alternative research topic to pro-innovation bias. The examples of Jugaad and reverse innovation
Gerald Gaglio

3. 'Best practices' as mimesis? Innovation policies in peripheral countries
Tiago Brandao 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
Frederic Goulet and Dominique Vinck

6. Comparing two cases of outlaw innovation: file sharing and legal highs
Johan Soederberg

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 Canibano, Maria-Isabel Encinar and Felix-Fernando Munoz

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
Benoit Godin and Dominique Vinck

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• Impacto da ciência e da tecnologia na sociedade
• Financiamento e política da ciência

Innovation; pro-innovation bias; imitation; resistances; non-use; critical thought