Handbook on alternative theories of innovation / edited by Benoît Godin, Gérald Gaglio, Dominique Vinck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Godin, Benoit, editor.

Gaglio, Gérald, editor.

Vinck, Dominique, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

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.This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

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Introduction to the Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation

PART I VISIONS OF INNOVATION

1. Innovation theology

2. Imaginaries of innovation

PART II THEORIZING INNOVATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE FOUNDATIONS

3. Theories of innovation

4. Economic approaches to industrial technological innovation

PART III ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO INNOVATION

5. Mapping innovation diversity

6. Social innovation: contested understandings of social change

7. Sustainable innovation: analysing literature lineages

8. Challenges for responsible innovation

PART IV ALTERNATIVE TYPES OF INNOVATION

9. User-centred innovation: from innovative users to user centred programmes

10. Open innovation: the open society and its entrepreneurial bias

11. Disruptive innovation: an organizational strategy and a technological concept

12. Common innovation: the oldest species of innovation?

13. Grassroots innovation: mainstreaming the discourse of informal sector

14. Frugal innovation: reaching an 'empowered' developing-countries end-user

PART V SUPPORTING INNOVATION: REFRAMING THE INSTRUMENTS

15. X-innovation and international organizations narratives

16. Transformative innovation policy: a novel approach?

17. Business innovation measurement: history and evolution

PART VI IMMUNE DISCIPLINES AND FORGOTTEN THEORIZATIONS

18. Religion and innovation: charting the territory

19. Anthropology of and for innovation

20. Philosophical reflections on the concept of innovation

PART VII THEORIZING THE THEORIES

21. Ideology, engine or regime. Styles of critique and theories of innovation

22. Collateral innovation: renewing theory from case-studies.

Conclusion to the Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781789902303

1789902304

OCLC:

1285169135