TY - CHAP
T1 - Challenging the Innovation Paradigm
T2 - Conclusions, Practical Implications, and Future Research
AU - Sveiby, Karl-Erik
AU - Gripenberg, Pernilla
AU - Segercrantz, Beata
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Human innovativeness is a very valuable capacity and that has probably been recognized since the dawn of humanity. When we engage in innovation, we introduce change, something that makes a diff erence in the established order. It is this powerful feature of innovation that has made it part of political and religious discourses as long as we have written records, that is, in the West since antiquity. Godin shows in chapter 3 how the concept of innovation has always been exploited by the rulers of the day. Historically innovation was promoted as ‘bad’ and used as a pejorative by the church and kings because it threatened the(ir) established order. Today, the concept is still exploited to serve a political agenda for the establishment of our day, an amorphous amalgamation of commercial interests and national politics, and in an ironic twist, innovation is now promoted as ‘good.’ We are told that there is a global competition between companies and nations in which only the ‘best’ innovators will prevail. Innovation has become an inevitable imperative; ‘we’ must innovate. More, better, faster-or else.
AB - Human innovativeness is a very valuable capacity and that has probably been recognized since the dawn of humanity. When we engage in innovation, we introduce change, something that makes a diff erence in the established order. It is this powerful feature of innovation that has made it part of political and religious discourses as long as we have written records, that is, in the West since antiquity. Godin shows in chapter 3 how the concept of innovation has always been exploited by the rulers of the day. Historically innovation was promoted as ‘bad’ and used as a pejorative by the church and kings because it threatened the(ir) established order. Today, the concept is still exploited to serve a political agenda for the establishment of our day, an amorphous amalgamation of commercial interests and national politics, and in an ironic twist, innovation is now promoted as ‘good.’ We are told that there is a global competition between companies and nations in which only the ‘best’ innovators will prevail. Innovation has become an inevitable imperative; ‘we’ must innovate. More, better, faster-or else.
KW - 512 Business and Management
KW - KOTA2012
U2 - 10.4324/9780203120972
DO - 10.4324/9780203120972
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-0-415-52275-5
T3 - Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
SP - 247
EP - 254
BT - Challenging the Innovation Paradigm
A2 - Sveiby, Karl-Erik
A2 - Gripenberg, Pernilla
A2 - Segercrantz, Beata
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -