1st Edition
Innovation Contested The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries
Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1: The Emergence of a Concept 1. Kainotomia and Conceptual Innovation in Ancient Greece 2. Innovo: On the Vicissitudes and Varieties of a Concept 3. Innovation, or, How to Stabilize a Changing World Part 2. Use of the Concept: The Prohibition Episteme 4. ‘Meddle Not With Them That Are Given to Change’: Innovation as Evil 5. Republicanism as Innovation … or Not Innovation 6. Social Innovation: From Scheme to Utopia Part 3. Transformation of the Concept: The Instrument Episteme 7. Re-imagining Innovation: A Semantic Rehabilitation 8. Innovation Transformed: From Word to Concept 9. When Science Had Nothing to Do with Innovation, and Vice-Versa Part 4. Diffusion of the Concept: The Value Episteme 10. The Vocabulary of Innovation: A Lexicon 11. Appropriating Innovation: For What Purpose? 12. "Innovation Studies": The Invention of a Specialty. Conclusion. Appendices. Sources and References. Index
Biography
Benoît Godin is a professor at INRS in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Dphil in science policy from Sussex (UK) University and has written extensively on science policy, research evaluation and science indicators.
