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
		REFERENCES
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
		REFERENCES
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
		REFERENCES
	7: A Critique of Business Model Innovation
		BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION: THE DARK SIDE
		PURSUING BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION: A CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE
		CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
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
		REFERENCES
	9: Against Social Innovation
		FOUR QUESTIONS
			Definitional challenges
			Locational challenges
			How does SI happen?
			Why SI?
		CONSEQUENCES
		JUST SAY NO
		REFERENCES
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