Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co-creation. A Socio-Epistemological Approach to “Innovation from within”

Markus Peschl and Thomas Fundneider

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Abstract: Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this problem to the question of how to cope with the new and with profound change (in knowledge). This question will be dealt with in the first part of the paper. As an implication the alternative approach of Emergent Innovation will be presented in the second part: this approach looks at innovation as a socio-epistemological process of “learning from the future” in order to create (radically) new knowledge in a sustainable and “organic” manner. Implications for knowledge society will be discussed.

Keywords: Knowledge society; (radical vs. incremental) innovation; emergent innovation; knowledge creation; change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 O3 O31 O32 Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09
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Published in M.D. Lytras, J.M. Carroll, E. Damiani et al. (Eds.), The Open Knowledge Society: A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2008): pp. 101-108

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