The concept of 'open innovation'introduced back in 2003 has received a remarkable,
somewhat viral popularity. It got spread way beyond academic circles and has been widely …

Innovation has during the last decades become a buzzword in academia as well as in
politics and business. The contemporary imperative is almost: innovate or perish. This also …

The present chapter draws its inspiration from two sources. The first is the series of critical
works on 'management fads' launched by E. Abrahamson (Collins, 2000; Newell et al …

Adopting a Schumpeterian perspective, this article reports a survey on contemporary
innovation literature from the 1950s to the present. By sorting innovation research into three …

Today, innovation as 'creative destruction'(Schumpeter 2003: 83) is becoming a social
imperative that increasingly characterizes innovation societies far beyond their economies …

A comprehensive collection of research illustrating advances in innovation over the past
century, this unique anthology equips its readers with the knowledge and tools to construct a …

This chapter considers common innovation. The following definition captures the essence of
this (Swann 2014, p. 3): Common innovation is carried out by 'the common man and …

In a short article published in 1950, Robert Redfield, an American anthropologist, described
the place of social science in American society as “ambiguous, precarious and critically …

This paper argues that responsible innovation discourses must consider the changing
nature of digital innovation, if they are to stand a chance of steering the development of …