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Models of innovation : the history of an idea, Benoit Godin

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Models abound in science, technology, and society (STS) studies and in science, technology, and innovation (STI) studies. They are continually being invented, with one author developing many versions of the same model over time. At the same time, models are regularly criticized. Such is the case with the most influential model in STS-STI: the linear model of innovation. In this book, Benoît Godin examines the emergence and diffusion of the three most important conceptual models of innovation from the early twentieth century to the late 1980s: stage models, linear models, and holistic models. Godin first traces the history of the models of innovation constructed during this period, considering why these particular models came into being and what use was made of them. He then rethinks and debunks the historical narratives of models developed by theorists of innovation. Godin documents a greater diversity of thinkers and schools than in the conventional account, tracing a genealogy of models beginning with anthropologists, industrialists, and practitioners in the first half of the twentieth century to their later formalization in STS-STI. Godin suggests that a model is a conceptualization, which could be narrative, or a set of conceptualizations, or a paradigmatic perspective, often in pictorial form and reduced discursively to a simplified representation of reality. Why are so many things called models? Godin claims that model has a rhetorical function. First, a model is a symbol of "scientificity." Second, a model travels easily among scholars and policy makers. Calling a conceptualization or narrative or perspective a model facilitates its propagation. --
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eng
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Publication
Extent
ix, 324 pages
Contents
  • III. System models.
  • The research triangle
  • A managerial view
  • A national perspective.
  • Epilogue.
  • Why models of innovation are models, or What work is being done in calling them models
  • I. Stage models.
  • The invention-diffusion framework : anthropologists and the study of cultural change
  • The stage framework : sociologists and the study of social change.
  • II. Linear models.
  • The research cycle
  • The linear model of innovation : a theoretical formulation
  • The historical construction of an analytical framework
  • The demand-pull model.
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9780262035897
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Models of innovation : the history of an idea
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Models of innovation
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the history of an idea
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Benoit Godin
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Language
eng
Summary
Models abound in science, technology, and society (STS) studies and in science, technology, and innovation (STI) studies. They are continually being invented, with one author developing many versions of the same model over time. At the same time, models are regularly criticized. Such is the case with the most influential model in STS-STI: the linear model of innovation. In this book, Benoît Godin examines the emergence and diffusion of the three most important conceptual models of innovation from the early twentieth century to the late 1980s: stage models, linear models, and holistic models. Godin first traces the history of the models of innovation constructed during this period, considering why these particular models came into being and what use was made of them. He then rethinks and debunks the historical narratives of models developed by theorists of innovation. Godin documents a greater diversity of thinkers and schools than in the conventional account, tracing a genealogy of models beginning with anthropologists, industrialists, and practitioners in the first half of the twentieth century to their later formalization in STS-STI. Godin suggests that a model is a conceptualization, which could be narrative, or a set of conceptualizations, or a paradigmatic perspective, often in pictorial form and reduced discursively to a simplified representation of reality. Why are so many things called models? Godin claims that model has a rhetorical function. First, a model is a symbol of "scientificity." Second, a model travels easily among scholars and policy makers. Calling a conceptualization or narrative or perspective a model facilitates its propagation. --
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  • Technological innovations
  • Models and modelmaking
  • Innovations
  • Modèles réduits
  • Models and modelmaking
  • 02.13 practice of science
  • Technological innovations
  • Technological innovations
  • Models and modelmaking
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Models of innovation : the history of an idea, Benoit Godin
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-320) and index
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text
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  • txt
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Contents
  • III. System models.
  • The research triangle
  • A managerial view
  • A national perspective.
  • Epilogue.
  • Why models of innovation are models, or What work is being done in calling them models
  • I. Stage models.
  • The invention-diffusion framework : anthropologists and the study of cultural change
  • The stage framework : sociologists and the study of social change.
  • II. Linear models.
  • The research cycle
  • The linear model of innovation : a theoretical formulation
  • The historical construction of an analytical framework
  • The demand-pull model.
Control code
959263484
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
ix, 324 pages
Isbn
9780262035897
Lccn
2016031366
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other control number
99971604922
System control number
(OCoLC)959263484
Label
Models of innovation : the history of an idea, Benoit Godin
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-320) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • III. System models.
  • The research triangle
  • A managerial view
  • A national perspective.
  • Epilogue.
  • Why models of innovation are models, or What work is being done in calling them models
  • I. Stage models.
  • The invention-diffusion framework : anthropologists and the study of cultural change
  • The stage framework : sociologists and the study of social change.
  • II. Linear models.
  • The research cycle
  • The linear model of innovation : a theoretical formulation
  • The historical construction of an analytical framework
  • The demand-pull model.
Control code
959263484
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
ix, 324 pages
Isbn
9780262035897
Lccn
2016031366
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other control number
99971604922
System control number
(OCoLC)959263484

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