X-Innovation: Re-Inventing Innovation Again and Again

Gaglio, Gerald; Godin, Benoît et Pfotenhauer, Sebastian (2019). X-Innovation: Re-Inventing Innovation Again and Again Novation: Critical Studies of Innovation , nº 1. pp. 1-16.

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Innovation is an old word, of Greek origin, that came into the Latin vocabulary at around the fourth century and into our everyday vocabulary with the Reformation. However, it is only during the second half of the twentieth century that innovation became a fashionable concept and turned into a buzzword. It gave rise to a plethora of terms like technological innovation, organizational innovation, industrial innovation and, more recently, social innovation, open innovation, sustainable innovation, responsible innovation and the like. We may call these terms X-innovation. How can we make sense of this semantic extension? Why do these terms come into being? What drives people to coin new terms? What effects do the terms have on thought, on culture and scholarship and on policy and politics? In this article we offer a conceptual historical analysis of the semantic field of innovation.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	innovation; science; technologie; histoire conceptuelle; histoire intellectuelle
Centre:	Centre Urbanisation Culture Société
Date de dépôt:	02 déc. 2019 16:57
Dernière modification:	16 déc. 2019 14:09
URI:	https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/8862

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