Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck (eds.) 2017), Critical Studies of Innovation : Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias, Edward Elgar. AbstractDifferent theories, models and narratives of innovation compete for both legitimacy and authority. However, despite the variations, they all offer … Read More »
Godin, Benoît Official Statisticians as Conceptual Innovators, International Review of Sociology, special issue on “European Politics of Numbers: Sociological Perspectives on Official Statistics in Europe” (Guest editor: Francesco Antonelli), 26 (3), 2016: 1-17. Abstract Statistics are impossible without concepts. As … Read More »
Benoît Godin, Technological Innovation: On the Emergence and Development of an Inclusive Concept, Technology and Culture, 57 (3), 2016: 527-56. Abstract Over the last several decades, many students of technology have tried to make sense of the concept of technology … Read More »
Benoît Godin (2016), Innovation and Imitation: Why is Imitation not Innovation?, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, paper no. 25, Montréal: INRS. ABSTRACT Innovation theorists relegate to non-existence a series of concepts outside of the semantic field of innovation. … Read More »
Benoît Godin (2015), Models of Innovation: Why Models of Innovation are Models, or What Work is Being Done in Calling Them Models?, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Working paper no. 22, INRS: Montreal. A longer version of a … Read More »