NOvation Statement of Aims [original version]

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/nocsi.v0i1.91170

Keywords:

Critical Studies of Innovation, Intellectual and conceptual histories, STS Studies

Abstract

The international journal NOvation: Critical Studies of Innovation was launched to contribute to the rethinking and debunking of innovation narratives in STS (Science, Technology and Society) and STI (Science, Technology, and Innovation). There is a need to critically examine studies of innovation and obtain a clearer portrait of innovation than the depiction this field has been accustomed to. The journal questions the current narratives of innovation and offers a forum for discussion of some different interpretations of innovation, not only its virtues, but also its implications. In this sense, NO refers to non-innovative behaviors, which are as important to our societies as innovation is. Failures, imitation and negative effects of innovation, to take just some examples of non-innovation or NOvation, are scarcely considered and rarely form part of theories of innovation.

Author Biographies

Benoît Godin, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal

Deceased in January 2021. Benoît Godin was a Dphil in Science-Technology-Society from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), Sussex University (England). Professor at INRS centre Urbanisation Culture Société (Montreal, Canada). He conducted a long-term research project on the intellectual history of innovation.

Tiago Brandão, História, Territórios e Comunidades - CFE NOVA FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Holds a PhD in History from NOVA University of Lisbon. He is a scholar and integrated researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet (CFE). A historian by formation, he actively publishes on STI - Science, Technology, and Innovation fields, mainly institutional and intellectual histories.

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Published

2019-07-06

How to Cite

Godin, B., & Brandão, T. (2019). NOvation Statement of Aims [original version]. NOvation - Critical Studies of Innovation, (1), i-iii. https://doi.org/10.5380/nocsi.v0i1.91170

Issue

No. 1 (2019): X‐innovation: Re‐inventing Innovation Again and Again

Section

Editorial

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