Un projet financé par le Conseil de recherche en sciences sociales et humaines (CRSH).
L’innovation est partout. On pense tout de suite à la technologie. Mais elle est aussi omniprésente dans les discours. L’innovation est objet de la littérature scientifique et technique, bien sûr, mais elle est aussi discutée dans les sciences sociales et humaines : histoire, sociologie, management, économie. L’innovation est aussi une idée centrale de l’imaginaire collectif, une notion abondamment discutée dans les médias, et un objet de la politique économique. En résumé, l’innovation est devenue le symbole d’une société moderne, souvent une panacée pour résoudre les problèmes sociaux et économiques.
Cette omniprésence de l’innovation suggère trois questions. Premièrement, pourquoi l’innovation a-t-elle acquis une place si centrale dans notre société ou, dit autrement, d’où vient l’idée d’innovation? Deuxièmement, comment l’innovation en est-elle venue à être spontanément identifiée à l’innovation technologique? Enfin, quand et à cause de qui l’innovation en est-elle venue à signifier l’innovation commercialisée par l’entreprise?
Dans le but de répondre à ces questions, le présent projet s’intéresse à l’innovation en tant que catégorie, son apparition et son développement dans le temps. Le projet analyse les concepts qui ont défini la nouveauté depuis l’Antiquité et qui ont conduit à l’idée d’innovation telle qu’on l’entend aujourd’hui. Plus spécifiquement, le projet étudie :
- les concepts développés dans le temps pour parler d’innovation : invention, imagination, génie, créativité, etc.
- la signification donnée à ces concepts,
- les discours tenus au nom de l’innovation,
- les valeurs véhiculées dans les discussions et les débats sur l’innovation,
- les théories et les cadres conceptuels développés pour expliquer l’innovation,
- le contexte duquel émerge la catégorie,
- la mesure de l’innovation.
Aperçu du projet
Innovation’s Evolution Over the Millenia
Publications
Livres
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B. Godin (2020), The Idea of Technological Innovation. A Brief Alternative History, Edward Elgar. |
| B. Godin (2019), The Invention of Technological Innovation: Languages, Discourses and Ideology in Historical Perspective, Edward Elgar |  |
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B. Godin (2015), Innovation Contested – The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries. London: Routledge. |
| B. Godin (2017), Models of Innovation. The History of an Idea. MIT Press. |  |
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Benoît Godin et Dominique Vinck (eds.) 2017), Critical Studies of Innovation : Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias, Edward Elgar. |
| Benoît Godin (2017), L’innovation sous tension : histoire d’un concept, Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval. |  |
Articles
Général | Classique | Réforme, Renaissance et Modernité | Contemporain
GÉNERAL
B. Godin (2015), Innovation : A Conceptual History of an Anonymous Concept, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Paper no. 21. Paper presented at: Workshop « Can Innovators Be Made? », Smithsonian Institution and Virginia Tech, Washington, March 20-21, 2015; International Workshop « Innovation Society Today: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges », Graduate School on Innovation Society Today, Technische Universität, Berlin, June 10-12, 2015; Summer School and Graduate Conference on Innovation, Instituto de Historia Contemporanea, Universidade Nova, Lisbon, June 19-23, 2015.
B. Godin (2014), Une histoire intellectuelle de l’innovation. De l’interdit politique à la politique publique, in Sophie Boutillier, Joëlle Forest, Delphine Gallaud, Blandine Laperche, Corinne Tanguy, Leïla Temri (dir.), Principes d’économie de l’innovation, Series: Business and Innovation – Volume 8, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers : Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2014. 514 p. Disponible à : http://www.peterlang.com/…
B. Godin (2014), The Vocabulary of Innovation: A Lexicon, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Paper no. 20, Montreal: INRS. 64p. Présenté lors du 2ème Colloque CASTI, Agder, Norway, le 20 octobre 2014.
B. Godin (2014), Innovation and Creativity: A Slogan, Nothing but a Slogan, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Paper no. 18, Montreal: INRS. Forthcoming in Cristiano Antonelli and Albert N. Link (eds), Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Knowledge, 2014.
B. Godin (2014), « Innovation: un slogan, rien qu’un slogan ! » Communication présentée au Forum du Développement Territorial 2ème édition organisé par Le cercle des Développeurs, Lyon, France, 24 octobre 2013.
B. Godin (2011),Καινoτoµíα: An Old Word for a New World; or, The De-Contestation of a Political and Contested Concept, Working Paper No. 9, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montreal: INRS. 56 p. Une version abrégée est disponible dans Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pemilla Gripenberg and Beata Segercrantz (eds.), Challenging the Innovation Paradigm, Londres : 37-60, 2012.
B. Godin (2008), Innovation: the History of a Category, Working Paper No. 1, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montréal : INRS. 62 p. Article présenté à : 1) Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee for the Science, Varsovie, Pologne, 2 décembre 2008; 2) Charles University, Department of Comparative History, Tchécoslovaquie, Prague, 26 novembre 2008; 3) « Governance of and Through Science : Notions, Categories, and Tools », EHESS, Paris, France, 26-27 Mai 2008; 4) Third PRIME/ENID International Conference, Oslo, Norvège, 28-30 mai 2008; 5) Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies, Annual Seminar, 5 mars 2009.
CLASSIQUE
B. Godin and P. Lucier(2014), Innovo: On the Vicissitudes and Variations of a Concept, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Paper no. 19, Montreal: INRS. 36p.
A. Spanos (2012), Was Innovation unwanted in Byzantium? Sera publiée dans : Ingela Nilsson & Paul Stephenson (eds.), Byzantium Wanted: The Desire and Rejection of an Empire, Uppsala 2013 [Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, vol. 15.
B. Godin et P. Lucier (2012), Innovation and Conceptual innovation in Ancient Greece, Working Paper No. 12, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montréal : INRS. 31 p.
A. Spanos (2010), To Every Innovation, Anathema (?) Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Study of Byzantine Innovation, dans Mysterion, strategike og kainotomia Et festskrift til ære for Jonny Holbek , Eds. Harald Knudsen, Joyce Falkenberg, Kjell Grønhaug and Åge Garnes, Novus Forlag, Oslo: 51-59.
RÉFORME, RENAISSANCE ET MODERNITÉ
Godin, Benoit (2020), Innovation Theology, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, INRS: Montreal.
Godin, Benoît (2020), The English Reformation and the Invention of Innovation, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, INRS: Montreal.
Godin, Benoît (2019), Théologie de l’innovation, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, INRS: Montreal.
Godin, B. (2016), Representation of Innovation in Seventeenth-Century England: A View from Natural Philosophy, Contributions to the History of Concepts, 11 (2), 2016: 24-42. Available at https://www.berghahnjournals.com/…/choc110202.xml
Benoît Godin, Technological Innovation: On the Emergence and Development of an Inclusive Concept, Technology and Culture, 57 (3), 2016: 527-56.
B. Godin (2015), Innovation: A Study in the Rehabilitation of a Concept, Contributions to the History of Concepts, 10 (1), 2015: 45-68.
B. Godin (2014), The Politics of Innovation: Machiavelli and Political Innovation, or, How to Stabilize a Changing World, Project on the Intellectual History of innovation, Working Paper No. 17, Montreal: INRS. 31p.
B. Godin (2013), Innovation after the French Revolution, or, Innovation Transformed: From Word to Concept, Working Paper No. 14, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montréal : INRS. 41p. For a version with translation of French texts, see (PDF). Published in Redescriptions, 17 (2) 2014 : 201-31.
Jean Hebue (2012), Généalogie de l’innovateur, in Gérer et comprendre, 110, décembre.
B. Godin (2012), Social Innovation : Utopias of Innovation from c. 1830 to the Present, Working Paper No. 11, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montréal : INRS. 50 p.
B. Godin (2011), Innovation and Politics: The Controversy on Republicanism in Seventeenth-Century England, Working Paper No. 10, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montréal : INRS. 38 p. Publié dans Redescription (Yearbook of Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory), 16, 2012-13: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-5297-6
B. Godin (2010), “Meddle Not With Them That Are Given to Change”: Innovation as Evil, Working Paper no. 6, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montreal: INRS. 46 p. Presenté à 1) Workshop on “Rhetoric of Innovation in Contemporary Society”, University of Helsinki, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, 7-8 février 2010; 2) Public Understanding of Science Seminar, London School of Economics, 10 Février 2010.
CONTEMPORAIN
Benoît Godin (2019), From Innovation to X-innovation to Critical Innovation, in Atlas of Social Innovation II, Edited by Jürgen Howaldt, Christoph Kaletka, Antonius Schröder and Marthe Zirngiebl, München, Okoem Verlag: 11-15 : www.oekom.de/…/atlas-of-social…html.
Godin (2019), Innovation and the Marginalization of Research, in Handbook on Science and Public Policy, edited by Dagmar Simon, Stefan Kuhlmann, Julia Stamm and Weert Canzler, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Godin and Gerald Gaglio (2019), How does innovation sustain ‘sustainable innovation’, in Handbook of Sustainable Innovation, edited by Frank Boons and Andrew McMeekin, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Schubert, Cornelius (2019), Social innovations as a repair of social order, University of Siegen, Longer version of a paper to appear in NOvation, 1,1.
Godin, B. (2019), How Innovation Evolved from a Heretical Act to a Heroic Imperative, in Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine (eds.), Does America Need More Innovators?, MIT Press series: Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation: 141-164.
B. Godin, The Spirit of Innovation, Annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Session on Innovation organized by The Centre for the Study of Living Standards and the Institute for Research in Public Policy, McGill University, June 1-3, 2018.
Gerald Gaglio, Benoît Godin et Sebastian Pfotenhauer (2017), X-Innovation: Re-Inventing Innovation Again and Again, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, INRS : Montreal.
Godin, Benoît (2017), Innovation and the Marginalization of Research, Paper no. 29, Project on the Conceptual History of Innovation, Montreal: INRS.
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.
Benoît Godin (2016), Innovation and Imitation: Why is Imitation not Innovation?, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, paper no. 25, Montréal: INRS.
B. Godin (2015), Technological Change: What do Technology and Change stand for? Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Working paper no. 24, INRS: Montreal.
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 paper published in Social Studies of Science, 45 (4), 2015: 570-96.
B. Godin (2014), « Innovation Studies »: Staking the Claim for a New Disciplinary « Tribe », Minerva, 52(4):489-495. Disponible à : www.link.springer.com/…
B. Godin (2014), The Linear Model of Innovation: The Historical Construction of an Analytical Framework, reprinted in Recent Developments In The Economics Of Science And Innovation, Albert N. Link and Cristiano Antonelli (eds.), Edward Elgar. Disponible à : http://www.e-elgar.com/…
L. Perren et J. Sapsed (2013), Innovation as politics: The rise and reshaping of innovation in UK parliamentary discourse 1960-2005, Research Policy, en ligne depuis le 18 October 2013.
B. Godin (2013), Invention, Diffusion and Linear Models of Innovation, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Working Paper no. 15, Montreal: INRS. 38p. Publié dans : Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, 15, 2014/3: 11-37.
B. Godin et J.P. Lane (2013), Pushes and Pulls »: The Hi(story) of the Demand Pull Model of Innovation, Working Paper No. 13, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montréal : INRS. 39 p. dans Science, Technology and Human Values, 38 (5), 2013: 621-54.
Egil Kallerud (2011) Goals conflict and goal alignment in science, technology and innovation policy discourse, NIFU Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education. Norway.
B. Godin (2010), “Innovation Studies”: The Invention of a Specialty (Part 2). Working Paper No. 8, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montreal : INRS. 48 p. Presented à 1) worshop on ‘The Rhetoric of Innovation in Contemporary Society’, University of Helsinki, 7-8 février 2010; 2) SPRU, Freeman Center Seminar Series, Brighton, 22 octobre 2010. Publié dans Minerva, 50 (4), 2012: 397-421.
B. Godin (2010), “Innovation Studies”: The Invention of a Specialty (Part I). Working Paper No. 7, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montreal : INRS. 47 p.
B. Godin (2010), Innovation Without the Word: William F. Ogburn’s Contribution to Technological Innovation Studies, Working Paper no. 5, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montreal : INRS. 56 p. Publié dans : Minerva, vol. 48 , no 3, 2010.
B. Godin (2010), National Innovation System: A Note on the Origins of a Concept, Working Paper, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montreal : INRS. 8 p.
B. Godin (2009), National Innovation System (II): Industrialists and the Origins of an Idea, Working Paper no. 4, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montreal : INRS. 24 p.
B. Godin (2009), The Linear Model of Innovation (II): Maurice Holland and the Research Cycle, Working Paper no. 3, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, Montreal : INRS. Publié dans : Social Science Information, 50th Anniversary Issue, 50 (3-4): 569-81. Article présenté au Seminar Series at Carnegie Mellon in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change, Pittsburg, 30 octobre 2008.
B. Godin (2008), In the Shadow of Schumpeter: W. Rupert Maclaurin and the Study of Technological Innovation, Working Paper no. 2, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation. Publié dans Minerva, vol. 46 no 3, p. 343-360. Article présenté à : 1) Carnegie Mellon, Seminar Series in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change, Pittsburg, 30 octobre 2008; 2) Imperial College/Science Museum, 22 mai 2008, Londres, Grande-Bretagne.
Position Papers
B. Godin (2013), « What Business Are You In, Mr Barber? A Review of « Oceans of Innovation » » Educational Philosophy and Theory 45 (10) : 989-991. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.837601.
B. Godin (2013), The Unintended Consequences of Innovation Studies, Paper prepared for a communication presented at « Policy Implications due to Unintended Consequences of Innovation », Special Track at EU-SPRI, Madrid, 10-12 April 2013.
J.P. Lane et B. Godin (2012), Is America’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy Open for Business? dans Science Progress, Juin : scienceprogress.org/…/
B. Godin et J.P. Lane (2012), Innovation and Normal Science, dans Robert Frodeman and J. Britt Holbrook, The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research, Report on the workshop ‘Transformative Research: Ethical and Societal Implications’ held in Arlington (VA), 8 et 9 mars 2012, p. 36-38: csid.unt.edu/…/FinalReport.pdf
B. Godin (2011),A User-View of Innovation: Some Critical Thoughts on the Current STI Frameworks and Their Relevance to Developing Countries, Communication presented at Expert Meeting on Innovation Statistics, UNESCO, 8-10 March, 2011.
Sous presse
B. Godin, Appropriating Innovation in the Twentieth Century: For What Purpose?
B. Godin, Homer G. Barnett and Culture Change: A Student of Innovation among the Anthropologists, Project on the Intellectual History of Innovation, INRS: Montreal.
Publications associées
B. Godin (2007), National Innovation System: The System Approach in Historical Perspective, Projet sur l’histoire et la sociologie des statistiques sur la STI, note de recherche no. 36, 34 p. Publié dans Science, Technology and Human Values, vol. 34, no 4, 2009, p. 476-501. Article présenté à : 1) Workshop on “The Changing Role of Universities in Innovation Systems”, Center for Advanced Studies, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Oslo, Norvège, 26-28 mars 2008; 2) Atelier « Journée Jean-Jacques Salomon », Paris, France, 5 décembre 2008.
B. Godin (2005), The Linear Model of Innovation: The Historical Construction of an Analytical Framework, Projet sur l’histoire et la sociologie des statistiques sur la STI, note de recherche no. 30, 35 pages, Publié dans Science, Technology, and Human Values, 31 (6), November 2006 : 639-667. Article présenté à : 1) Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), Maastricht, Pays Bas, 5 septembre 2006; 2) Fifth conference on Triple Hélix, Turin, Italie, 18-21 mai 2005.
B. Godin (2002), The Rise of Innovation Surveys: Measuring a Fuzzy Concept, Projet sur l’histoire et la sociologie des statistiques sur la STI, note de recherche no. 16. Communication presentée à l’International Conference in Honour of K. Pavitt « What We Know About Innovation », 13-15 november 2003, SPRU, Université of Sussex, Brighton (UK).