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Critical Studies of Innovation

Author : Benoît Godin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785366963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Critical Studies of Innovation written by Benoît Godin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. The chapters provide a different viewpoint on innovation by exploring what has been omitted from traditional innovation studies. The book examines imitation, non-innovative roles, resistance to innovation, slow innovation, the rationale of non-users, failure, withdrawal, collateral impacts and alternative models. Calling for new definitions and frameworks, the editors have created a critical program for innovation studies with new avenues for future research. Offering state-of-the-art discussion of theories, models, narratives and ideologies of innovation and alternative approaches, this book will be an essential resource for scholars in technology and innovation, management, engineering, political and social sciences. It will also appeal to policy-makers in the science and technology sector. Contributors include: C. Bagattolli, M.W. Bauer, L. Becerra, K. Berglund, T. Brandão, C. Cañibano, M.I. Encinar, G. Gaglio, S. Garrido, B. Godin, F. Goulet, J. Juhl, J. Langrish, K.-H. Leitner, F.-F. Muñoz, S.M. Pfotenhauer, B. Segercrantz, J. Söderberg, K.-E. Sveiby, H. Thomas, D. Vinck, L. Vinsel

Critical Studies of Innovation

Author : Benoît Godin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785367226
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Critical Studies of Innovation written by Benoît Godin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Critical Perspectives on Innovation Management

Author : Patryk Dziurski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000484262
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Innovation Management written by Patryk Dziurski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most firms perceive innovation as the best way to grow. However, how it can best be managed is still unclear. While the number of publications on innovation has skyrocketed over the past two decades, it is still increasingly difficult to gain an overview of its most critical aspects. Much has been written about the possible benefits of innovation, but there is still a lack of understanding of its downsides at the innovative firm level. This can lead to detrimental effects, such as a lower commitment to innovation, a lack of effective innovation strategy, inappropriate organizational design that does not enhance innovation, and either a too cautious or too risky approach to innovation. Thus, the book aims to explore the concept of innovation management as well as to identify the bright and dark sides of innovation in innovative firms. A better understanding of the positive and negative effects of product and process innovation expands the knowledge base on innovation management and allows managers to manage innovation in a more efficient and effective manner. This book will be valuable to researchers, academics, managers, and advanced students in the fields of management studies, strategy, and organizational studies.

Innovation in Environmental Leadership

Author : Benjamin W. Redekop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351795384
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Innovation in Environmental Leadership written by Benjamin W. Redekop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and practitioners of environmental leadership from around the globe, and are informed by a variety of critical perspectives, including post-heroic approaches, systems thinking, and the emerging insights of Critical Leadership Studies (CLS). By taking the natural environment seriously as a foundational context for leadership, Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers fresh insights and compelling visions of leadership pertinent to 21st century environmental and social challenges. Concepts and understandings of leadership emerged as part of an extractive industrial system; this work asks its readers to re-think what leadership looks like in an ecologically sustainable biological system. This book provides fresh insights and critical perspectives on the vibrant and growing field of environmental leadership. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to leadership theory and environmental leadership and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of sustainability, environmental ethics, natural resource management, environmental studies, business management, public policy, and environmental management.

Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Author : H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : M & M Scrivener Press
ISBN 13 : 0980209471
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry written by H. Tristram Engelhardt and published by M & M Scrivener Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Critical Reflections on the Virtues of Profit examines the central role of profit in the development of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and health care generally. Recent efforts to understand this role have often underestimated and even dismissed its importance, arguing for its replacement by other means and mechanisms. However, as the essays in this volume attest, it would be impossible to account adequately for the range of pharmaceuticals and medical devices that have become part of everyday medicine without recognizing that the depth and scope of innovations are tied not simply to altruism, a concern for the common good, or the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, but crucially to the pursuit of private good and of individual profit. Balancing a concern for theory and practice, the analyses and evaluations provided in these essays touch directly on many of the most heated and important debates in pharmaceutical ethics, such as profit margins, corporate social responsibility, drug advertising, litigation, patents, and parallel trade. Reflecting critically on the problems and prospects of medical innovation, they invite a rethinking of the foundations of the bioethics and business ethics of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries by focusing on the long-term impact of policy decisions for human health and well-being.

Challenging the Innovation Paradigm

Author : Karl-Erik Sveiby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136324526
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Innovation Paradigm written by Karl-Erik Sveiby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation

Author : Godin, Benoît
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789902304
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation written by Godin, Benoît and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Knowledge Integration and Innovation

Author : Christian Berggren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199693927
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Integration and Innovation written by Christian Berggren and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks

Author : Landry, Julien
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789909236
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks written by Landry, Julien and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Driving Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy

Author : Oncioiu, Ionica
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522517804
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Driving Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy written by Oncioiu, Ionica and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancements in the digital world are bringing about rapid waves of change in organizational management. As such, it is increasingly imperative to discover ways for businesses to adapt to changes in the markets and seize various digital market opportunities. Driving Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy is an essential reference source for the latest research on the impact of digital computing and emerging technological innovations in the realm of business success. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as IT outsourcing, sustainable development and online advertising, this publication is ideally designed for researchers, professionals and students seeking current research on the complex scope of the new economy.

Co-creation for Responsible Research and Innovation

Author : Alessandro Deserti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030787338
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Co-creation for Responsible Research and Innovation written by Alessandro Deserti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the SISCODE (Society in Innovation and Science through CO-DEsign) project, funded by the EU under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to set up an analytical, reflective and learning framework to explore the transformations in initiatives and policies emerging from the interaction between citizens and stakeholders. The book provides a critical analysis of the co-design processes activated in 10 co-creation labs addressing societal challenges across Europe. Each lab as a case study of real-life experimentation is described through its journey, starting from the purpose on the ground of the experimentation and the challenge addressed. Specific attention is then drawn on the role of policies and policy maker engagement. Finally, the experimentation is enquired in terms of its output, transformations triggered within the organization and the overall ecosystem, and its outcomes, opening the reasoning towards the lessons learnt and reflections that the entire co-creation journey brought.

Socially Responsible Innovation in Security

Author : J. Peter Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351246887
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Socially Responsible Innovation in Security written by J. Peter Burgess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the possibility of socially responsible innovation in security, using an interdisciplinary approach. Responsible innovation in security refers to a comprehensive approach that aims to integrate knowledge related to stakeholders operating at both the demand and the supply side of security – technologists, citizens, policymakers and ethicists. Security innovations can only be successful in the long term if all the social, ethical and ecological impacts, and threats and opportunities, both short term and long term, are assessed and prioritized alongside technical and commercial impacts. The first part of this volume focuses on security technology innovation and its perception and acceptance by the public, while the second part delves deeper into the processes of decision-making and democratic control, raising questions about the ethical implications of security ruling. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, sociology, technology studies and IR in general.

Socio-gerontechnology

Author : Alexander Peine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000317536
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Socio-gerontechnology written by Alexander Peine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social change in the twenty-first century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field, Socio-gerontechnology, this book explores common conceptual, theoretical and methodological ideas that become visible in the critical scholarship on ageing and technology at the intersection of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Comprised of 15 original chapters, three commentaries and an afterword, the book explores how ageing and technology are already interconnected and constantly being intertwined in Western societies. Topics addressed cover a broad variety of socio-material domains, including care robots, the use of social media, ageing-in-place technologies, the performativity of user involvement and public consultations, dementia care and many others. Together, they provide a unique understanding of ageing and technology from a social sciences and humanities perspective and contribute to the development of new ontologies, methodologies and theories that might serve as both critique of and inspiration for policy and design. International in scope, including contributions from the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, Socio-gerontechnology is an agenda-setting text that will provide an introduction for students and early career researchers as well as for more established scholars who are interested in ageing and technology.

The Two Faces of Institutional Innovation

Author : Leonardo Avritzer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786436655
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Two Faces of Institutional Innovation written by Leonardo Avritzer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates democratic innovations to allow a full analysis of the different practices that have emerged recently in Latin America. These innovations, often viewed in a positive light by a large section of democratic theorists, engendered the idea that all innovations are democratic and all democratic innovations are able to foster citizenship – a view challenged by this work. The book also evaluates the expansion of innovation to the field of judicial institutions. It will benefit democratic theorists by presenting a realistic analysis of the positive and negative aspects of democratic innovation.

Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies

Author : Stefan Kuhlmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783471913
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies written by Stefan Kuhlmann and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although in recent years some emerging economies have improved their performance in terms of R&D investment, outputs and innovative capacity, these countries are still blighted by extreme poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Hence, emerging countries are exposed to conditions which differ quite substantially from the dominant OECD model of innovation policy for development and welfare. This Research Handbook contributes to the debate by looking at how innovation theory, policy and practice interact, and explains different types of configurations in countries that are characterized by two contrasting but mutually reinforcing features: systemic failure and resourcefulness. Focusing on innovation governance and public policies, it aims to understand related governance failures and to explore options for alternative, more efficient approaches.

Principle Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management: Critical Research Models

Author : Friedman, Robert S.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1605660396
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Principle Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management: Critical Research Models written by Friedman, Robert S. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a reference guide to the theory and research supporting the field of Technology and Innovation Management"--Provided by publisher.

Innovation, Ethics and our Common Futures

Author : Rafael Ziegler
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789904544
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Innovation, Ethics and our Common Futures written by Rafael Ziegler and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The important yet contradictory role of innovation in society calls for a philosophy of innovation. Critically exploring innovation in relation to values, the economy and social change, Rafael Ziegler proposes a collaborative theory and practice of innovation that aims to liberate possibilities for our common futures.