Critical Studies Of Innovation
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| Author | : Benoît Godin |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2017-05-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1785367226 |
Different 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 looks at innovation from a different perspective and 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.
| Author | : Godin, Benoît |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2021-10-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1789902304 |
This insightful Handbook scrutinizes alternative concepts and approaches to the dominant economic or industrial theories of innovation. Providing an assessment of these alternatives, it questions the absence of these neglected types of innovation and suggests diverse theories.
| Author | : Christian Berggren |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2011-08-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0191619620 |
Technology-based firms continue to compete primarily on innovation, and one continuously required to present new solutions to an exacting market. As technological complexity and specialization intensifies, firms increasingly need to integrate and co-ordinate knowledge by means of project groups, diversified organizations, inter-organizational partnerships, and strategic alliances. Innovation processes have progressively become interdisciplinary, collaborative, inter-organizational, and international, and a firm's ability to synthesize knowledge across disciplines, organizations, and geographical locations has a major influence on its viability and success. This book demonstrates how knowledge integration is crucial in facilitating innovation within modern firms. This book provides original, detailed empirical studies of prerequisites, mechanisms, and outcomes of knowledge integration processes on several organizational levels, from key individuals, projects, and internal organizations, to collaboration between firms. It stresses the need to understand knowledge integration as a multi-level phenomenon, which requires a broad repertoire of organizational and technical means. It further clarifies the need for strong internal capabilities for exploiting external knowledge, reveals how costs of knowledge integration affect outcomes and strategic decisions, and discusses the managerial implications of fostering knowledge integration, providing practical guidance and support for managers of knowledge integration in high technology enterprises.
| Author | : Landry, Julien |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2021-07-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1789909236 |
This innovative book explores think tanks from the perspective of critical policy studies, showcasing how knowledge, power and politics intersect with the ways in which think tanks intervene in public policy.
| Author | : Friedman, Robert S. |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2008-09-30 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1605660396 |
"This book is a reference guide to the theory and research supporting the field of Technology and Innovation Management"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Karl-Erik Sveiby |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2012-05-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136324526 |
Innovation is almost always seen as a "good thing". Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemporary innovation research. The one-sided focus on desirable effects of innovation misses many opportunities to reduce the undesirable consequences. Authors in this book show how systemic effects outside the innovating firms reduce the net benefits of innovation for individual employees, customers, as well as for society as a whole - also the innovators' own organizations. This book analyzes the dominant discourses that construct and reconstruct the assumptions and one-sidedness of contemporary innovation research (generally known as the pro-innovation bias) by focusing on consequences of innovation, distinguishing between intended and unintended as well as desirable and undesirable consequences. Contributors illustrate how both the discourses of innovation and the consequences of innovation permeate all levels of society: in policy discourse, in academic discourse, in research funding, in national innovation systems, in the financial sector, in organizational and work contexts, and in environmental pollution. The volume offers a critical, multidisciplinary, and multinational perspective on the topic, with authors from diverse academic fields examining and making comparisons between a variety of national contexts.
| Author | : Matthew Wisnioski |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2019-04-09 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0262352605 |
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation. Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards. Meanwhile, reformers work to make the training of innovators more inclusive and the outcomes of innovation more responsible. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation's champions, critics, and reformers in conversation. The book presents an overview of innovator training, exploring the history, motivations, and philosophies of programs in private industry, universities, and government; offers a primer on critical innovation studies, with essays that historicize, contextualize, and problematize the drive to create innovators; and considers initiatives that seek to reform and reshape what it means to be an innovator. Contributors Errol Arkilic, Catherine Ashcraft, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, W. Bernard Carlson, Lisa D. Cook, Humera Fasihuddin, Maryann Feldman, Erik Fisher, Benoît Godin, Jenn Gustetic, David Guston, Eric S. Hintz, Marie Stettler Kleine, Dutch MacDonald, Mickey McManus, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Natalie Rusk, Andrew L. Russell, Lucinda M. Sanders, Brenda Trinidad, Lee Vinsel, Matthew Wisnioski
| Author | : Nathan Rosenberg |
| Publisher | : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9789814273589 |
Science and technology have become increasingly intertwined in the twentieth century. However, little attention has been paid to the forces that have brought about this phenomena. Indeed, many writers have taken it for granted that causality always runs from science to technology. In this ground-breaking book, Rosenberg's research suggests that history and empirical evidence lead to a reality that is far more complex and interesting. Here, Rosenberg's papers cover a wide range of topics, especially those connected with the innovative process, including electric power, electronics, medicine, chemistry, engineering disciplines, scientific instrumentation, industrial research, and universities considered as economic institutions.
| Author | : Klaus Beekman |
| Publisher | : Brill Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 1994-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9789051835472 |
| Author | : Christopher Ansell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-04 |
| Genre | : Organizational change |
| ISBN | : 9781138666528 |
This book provides a better specification of the institutional and political requirements for sustaining a robust vision of public innovation, through the key dimensions of collaboration, creative problem-solving, and design, via a collection of empirical studies drawn from Europe, the United States of America and the antipodes.
