Debating Innovation: Perspectives and Paradoxes of an Idealized Concept

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I: Innovation: Where We Are and How We Got Here
1: Introduction
INNOVATION, WHAT INNOVATION?
INNOVATION AS HYPEROBJECT
THE REST OF THIS BOOK
REFERENCES
2: Innovation, Labor Displacement, and the Role of the State: The Classical Economists’ Perspective
INTRODUCTION
ADAM SMITH
DAVID RICARDO
JEREMY BENTHAM
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS
JOHN STUART MILL
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
3: Innovation Ethics
INTRODUCTION
WHY AN ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION?
APPROACHES TO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION ETHICS
Autonomous approaches
Deliberative approaches
Responsible research and innovation
CHALLENGES IN ETHICAL INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY IN A MULTI-CULTURAL, COMPETITIVE WORLD
Innovation in the private sector
International competition for innovative technologies
DISCUSSION: AN AGENDA FOR INNOVATION ETHICS
Innovation ethics must promote critical thinking and avoid reification of values
Innovation ethics needs to also focus on care and maintenance of existing values
Innovation ethics is processual and iterative, and cannot be just invention ethics
Innovation ethics needs to be open to innovation in a variety of contexts
Innovation ethics acknowledges the infinite demands of ethics, but still is action-oriented
CONCLUSIONS
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Part II: Some General Critiques of Innovation
4: Creative Continuation: An Alternative Perspective on Innovation and Society
INTRODUCTION
EXTENDED FAMILIES AND INNOVATION
THE BASQUE COUNTRY AND WEST NORWAY
THE THIRD ITALY
DISCUSSION
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
5: Image, Imperatives, and Ideology in the Innovation Industry
INTRODUCTION
THE INNOVATION INDUSTRY: AN INTRODUCTION
“INNOVATE OR DIE!”: ON IMPERATIVE ASSUMPTIONS IN INNOVATION THINKING
THE INNOVATION IDEOLOGY
INNOVATION THEATER: THE STAGING AND PERFORMANCE OF COMMODIFIED NOVELTY
THE INNOVATION IDEOLOGY INDUSTRIALLY PERFORMED, A MODEL
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Part III: For and Against Business Model Innovation
6: In Search for the Holy Grail in Management Research: A Review of the Benefits of Business Model Innovation
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION?
BENEFITS OF BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION
Effects on the operational and strategic performance
Framing condition for organizational transformation
Holistic thinking pattern for new venture creation
DISCUSSION
Key implications
Outlook
Critical reflection
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7: A Critique of Business Model Innovation
BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION: THE DARK SIDE
PURSUING BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION: A CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE
CONCLUSION
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Part IV: For and Against Social Innovation
8: The Pros of Social Innovation
REAL CASES WITH SOCIAL IMPACTS FROM SOCIAL INNOVATION
SOCIAL INNOVATION AS AN EMERGING RESEARCH FIELD
INTERRELATIONS WITH OTHER INNOVATIONS FORMS
BARRIERS TO SOCIAL INNOVATION AND NEED FOR POLICY ACTION
CONCLUSION
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9: Against Social Innovation
FOUR QUESTIONS
Definitional challenges
Locational challenges
How does SI happen?
Why SI?
CONSEQUENCES
JUST SAY NO
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Part V: For and Against Service Innovation
10: For Service Innovation: Some Arguments in Favor of Services and Innovation in Services
INTRODUCTION
SERVICES: FOR OR AGAINST?
Services generate value and performance
Services are increasingly traded
Services are the major locus of (good) job creation and of entrepreneurship
FOR INNOVATION IN SERVICES
The neglect stage
The subordination stage
The autonomization stage
The stage of recognition of specific forms of innovation
The stage of inversion of the balance of power
The “all service” (and therefore “all is innovation in services”) stage
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
11: Against Service Innovation: Why Service Innovation Is Not Sustainable
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS SERVICE INNOVATION?
WHAT IS SERVICE SUSTAINABILITY?
QUESTIONING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF SERVICE INNOVATION
Financial argument: Service innovation is good for growth and job creation
Social argument: Social service innovation increases human well-being and builds inclusive societies
Environmental argument: Service innovation is good for the environment
SERVICE INNOVATION: ANALYZING IT FROM A LINE OF CONFLICT
CONCLUDING REMARKS
REFERENCES
Part VI: For and Against Open Innovation
12: For Open Innovation
THE IDEA OF CREATING VALUE “IN THE OPEN”
THE THEORY ON THE OPEN INNOVATION IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS
THE DIFFERENT MODES OF OPEN INNOVATION IN FIRMS
IN PRACTICE: HOW SIZE, STRUCTURE, AND CULTURE OF FIRMS MATTER
Outbound and inbound OI in large-size companies
Outbound and inbound OI in SMEs
OPEN INNOVATION HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SOME TIME: BUT WHERE IS IT GOING?
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Insights from the brief conceptual history of innovation theory
Implications for the strategic management of innovation in firms
REFERENCES
13: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Reflections on Potential Challenges of Open Innovation
PITFALLS OF OPENNESS IN VALUE CREATION BASED ON KNOWLEDGE
What if there is just too little or too much information?
What if the knowledge is too familiar or too distant?
INNOVATION APPROPRIATION IN THE OPEN INNOVATION CONTEXT
What if someone steals and abuses your or others’ ideas and assets?
What if conditions change or context gets in the way?
ORCHESTRATION OF INNOVATION NETWORKS
What if different actors do not work towards the same goal?
What if you lose your own focus?
CONCLUDING REMARKS
REFERENCES
Part VII: The Road Forward from Here
14: What Does It Take? Feminist Readings of Innovation Studies
INTRODUCTION
INVISIBLE WOMEN
VISIBLE WOMEN
FROM WOMEN TO GENDER
DIVERSE ECONOMIES AS A FRAMEWORK FOR FEMINIST INNOVATION
A NOTE ON METHOD
SusPens: A MISSED CHANCE TO INNOVATE FOR GENDER EQUALITY
CLUE: INNOVATION FOR WOMEN BY WOMEN
THE ANDROCHAIR: NORM-CRITICAL INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
REFERENCES
15: Non-Western Perspectives on Innovation
THE WESTERN BIAS IN INNOVATION?
THE INNOVATION CHALLENGES OF THE NON-WESTERN CONTEXT
Challenge 1: Capability development of local firms
Challenge 2: Meeting the underserved needs of lower pyramid markets
Challenge 3: Inchoate innovation culture
THE NON-WESTERN INNOVATORS
The new powerhouses
China
India: The land of jugaad
The up-and-comers
Latin America and the Caribbean
Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania (SEAO)
The new entrants
Africa and the Middle East
THE INNOVATIVE LANDSCAPE AND THE WAY FORWARD
CRITIQUING THE WESTERN BIAS IN INNOVATION THINKING
THE TURNING POINT
REFERENCES
16: Innovation, AI, and Materiality: Learning from the Arts
INTRODUCTION
APPROACHING ARTISTIC INNOVATION PROCESSES
On innovation in the context of the arts
Materiality in artistic practice: Insights for innovation studies
METHODS AND EMPIRICAL MATERIAL
ANALYSIS
Artists relating to AI: From “an interesting element” and “a fancier brush” to a “companion-like extension”
Foregrounding the relationality between material things and human bodies in artistic innovation processes
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
17: Peace Piece: On the Machiavellian Moment in Organizational Innovation
INTRODUCTION: AGAINST DISRUPTION
STARK ON ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION
DISSONANCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
FROM MACHIAVELLI TO MONTEVERDI
FROM DAFT TO DAFT PUNK: INNOVATION AND INFINITE SUSPENSION
REFERENCES
18: The Animal Spirits of Innovation: On Companion Species, Creativity, and Olly the Airport Cat
OLLY THE CAT MAKES AN EN-TRANCE
BOSS CAT
CATFIGHT AND CORPORATE UPROAR
THE CAT COMMITTEE
STRIKE
CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
19: The Future(s) of Innovation
INTRODUCTION
FAST, AUGMENTED INNOVATION
SUSTAINABILITY AND SLOW INNOVATION
DIVERSE INNOVATION REGIMES AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF INNOVATION
WEIRD INNOVATION: THE NEW NEW THINGS
THE MANY FUTURES OF INNOVATION
REFERENCES
Afterword
Index