Recent economic theorising on innovation: Lessons for analysing social innovation

Attila Havas

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Abstract: This paper reviews recent economic theorising on innovation from the angle of analysing social innovations (SI). It is structured as follows: Some of the basic notions used in innovation analyses are considered in section 2, focusing on the subject, objectives and levels of change. Section 3 reviews how innovation is understood in particular models of innovation and analysed by various schools of economics highlighting the types of actors and knowledge perceived as relevant in these various approaches. The notion of innovation systems (national, regional, sectoral, and technological ones) and its analytical and policy relevance is explored in section 4. Lessons relevant for analysing social innovation are drawn at the end of each sub-section, and the most important of those are reiterated in the concluding section.

Keywords: Types of business innovations; Innovation in mainstream economics; Evolutionary economics of innovation; Linear, networked, and interactive learning models of innovation; Types of dynamics; Innovation systems (national, regional, sectoral, technological); Social innovation; The "dark side" of innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 O30 O31 O33 O35 O38 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
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Published in CRESSI Working Papers 27/2016 (2016): pp. 1-60

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