Debating Innovation Perspectives and Paradoxes of an Idealized Concept

Despite its complexity, innovation is often depicted within academic literature as a phenomenon that is innately good and always necessary. This thought-provoking volume presents a more nuanced view – through a number of paired chapters for and against, as well as more general critiques of innovation and several suggested new lines of inquiry, the book will be of interest to all with a broader interest in innovation.

Part I. Innovation – Where We Are and How We Got Here.- Chapter 1. Introduction, Alf Rehn and Anders Örtenblad.- Chapter 2. Innovation, Labor Displacement, and the Role of the State: The Classical Economists’ Perspective, Samuel Hollander.- Chapter 3. Innovation Ethics, Thomas Taro Lennerfors and Kiyoshi Murata.- Part II. Some General Critiques of Innovation.- Chapter 4. Creative Continuation—An Alternative Perspective on Innovation and Society, Jon P. Knudsen.- Chapter 5. Image, Imperatives, and Ideology in the Innovation Industry, Alf Rehn.- Part III. For and Against Business Model Innovation.- Chapter 6. In Search for the Holy Grail in Management Research: A Review of the Benefits of Business Model Innovation, Thomas Clauß.- Chapter 7. A Critique of Business Model Innovation, La Ode Sabaruddin and Fathiro Hutama Reksa Putra.- Part IV. For and Against Social Innovation.- Chapter 8. The Pros of Social Innovation, Luis Rubalcaba and Ernesto Solano.- Chapter 9. Against Social Innovation, Nidhi Srinivas.- Part V. For and Against Service Innovation.- Chapter 10. For Service Innovation: Some Arguments in Favor of Services and Innovation in Services, Faridah Djellal, Camal Gallouj, and Faïz Gallouj.- Chapter 11. Against Service Innovation: Why Service Innovation is Not Sustainable, Lars Witell, Per Carlborg, and Hannah Snyder.- Part VI. For and Against Open Innovation.- Chapter 12. For Open Innovation, Lykke Margot Ricard and Sergio Jofre.- Chapter 13. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Reflections on Potential Challenges of Open Innovation, Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Ioana Stefan, and Jialei Yang.- Part VII. The Road Forward From Here.- Chapter 14. What Does It Take? Feminist Readings of Innovation Studies, Sine N. Just and Sara Dahlman.- Chapter 15. Non-western perspectives on innovation, Abhinav Chaturvedi.- Chapter 16. Innovation, AI, and Materiality: Learning from the Arts, Astrid Huopalainen.- Chapter 17. Peace Piece: On the Machiavellian Moment in Organizational Innovation, Karl Palmås and Stefan Molnar.- Chapter 18. The Animal Spirits of Innovation: On Companion Species, Creativity, and Olly the Airport Cat, Damian O’Doherty.- Chapter 19. The Future(s) of Innovation, Alf Rehn.