Two norms for innovation in outdoor sports: technical and social innovation

Pascal Duret () and Katia Angué ()
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Pascal Duret: DIMPS - Déterminants Interculturels de la Motricité et de la Performance Sportive - UR - Université de La Réunion
Katia Angué: CEMOI - Centre d'Économie et de Management de l'Océan Indien - UR - Université de La Réunion

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Abstract: Technical innovation is not separated from the social so much, but it is difficult to mix the two types of innovation. It is possible to arrange innovations along a continuum where, at one pole, social innovations are conditioned by technical innovations and, at the other, social innovations are first and autonomous. Social innovations (way of living together activities), in climbing or in diving, have been conditioned by the technical innovations of safety equipment. Social innovation, in this case, is consistent with the increased use of technology. But, social innovations can be more independent from technical innovations (adventure parks do not add new technologies to the equipment used in the army, but the ways of living together are different). Users become central in social innovation in outdoor sports. Involvement of the players is an essential condition for successful innovation.

Keywords: Innovation; Social; Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 2015, 38 (3), pp.372-382. ⟨10.1080/07053436.2015.1083756⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/07053436.2015.1083756

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