Why does scholarship on innovation fixate on certain classes of technology? Could our
research tools and techniques be concealing as much as they reveal? Ryan T. MacNeil …

Why does scholarship on innovation fixate on certain classes of technology? Could our
research tools and techniques be concealing as much as they reveal? Ryan MacNeil shows …

Key figures in the history of innovation studies–Christopher Freeman, Stephen Kline, Nathan
Rosenberg, and Eric von Hippel–all featured scientific instruments in their theory …

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 …

When running among fast runners, to slow down means to be left behind; when running on
thin ice, slowing down means the real threat of being drowned. Speed, therefore, climbs to …

The study of innovation has become an industry. Hundreds of studies on the subject have
been published in the last few decades. Theories, models, frameworks and narratives of …

Despite its complexity, innovation is often depicted within academic literature as a
phenomenon that is innately good and always necessary. This thought-provoking volume …

This timely book takes an insightful look at rethinking innovation and how lessons can be
learnt from what is a major turning point in our contemporary societies: the urgent need to …

Immediately in the introduction, editors Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck observe that the
study of innovation has become an industry, one that produces an abundance of literature …

This chapter engages in a Foucauldian genealogical trek (Foucault, 1980) to explore how
innovation has come to be understood as something that is both desirable and measurable …