Enskilment

Jarkko Pyysiäinen, Pasi Heikkurinen and Jenny Rinkinen

Chapter 56 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 215-218 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Enskilment is defined as the process of identifying, acquiring, maintaining, transferring, and potentially also releasing, a set of skills required for the mastery of a particular (set of) task(s). Under the right circumstances, a dedicated engagement in these tasks and practices advances the mastery of also more complex sociocultural tasks and skills, such as sustainable innovating. Correspondingly, advanced enskilment in sustainable innovation can be described as an ability to disclose new sustainable ‘worlds’, that is, to identify and realize novel, sustainable relations between practices, their objects and practitioners. Three stages of enskilment in the context of sustainability innovation can thus be outlined, ranging from conventional sustainability expertise to sustainability mastery and, finally, to radical sustainability innovation.

Keywords: Enskilment; Skills; Sustainable innovation; Sustainable change; Timothy Ingold; Hubert L. Dreyfus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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