The Innovation Society

Olof Hallonsten
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Olof Hallonsten: Lund University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Empty Innovation, 2023, pp 1-13 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Current society’s obsession with innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth is superficial and unsustainable. It has little to do with real innovation, which is a process involving hard work and long-term devotion. Instead, innovation today is a catchword that has evolved into an ideology and a myth mobilized to underpin current society’s striving for constant economic growth for its own sake. The chapter outlines this problem, anchors it in a theoretical foundation of organizational sociology, and states the aims and purpose of the book.

Keywords: Pro-innovation bias; Innovationism; Growth; Expectations; Policymaking; Organized hypocrisy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31479-7_1

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