EAN: 9783039118151

NON-TECHNOLOGICAL AND NON-ECONOMIC INNOVATIONS ...

There is a peculiar dissonance in innovation research. On the one hand  the label innovation is
applied to almost everything: new products  processes  services  methods  techniques. Even the
diffusion of innovations to all spheres of society is called innovation. On the other hand  we
find that the main focus of innovation research is still on bringing technology to market. This
dissonance provoked the central questions discussed at the 2nd International Conference on
Indicators and Concepts of Innovation (ICICI 2008) on «Non-technological and non-economic
innovations and their impact on economy» hosted by the Competence Centre for Management at the
Berne School of Business and Administration: What forms and dimensions of non-technological and
non-economic innovations can nonetheless be found both theoretically and empirically? What
impact do these innovations have on the economy? Are there actually innovations without a
non-technological and non-economic dimension  viz. purely technological or economic
innovations? Consisting of selected answers to these questions  this volume presents
international scholarly approaches beyond the «technology goes economic market» mainstream of
innovation research. They are integrated in a theoretical framework for the analysis of
socially robust innovations  i.e. innovations that succeed on more than one market and are
therefore both more sustainable and more profitable. The 2nd International Conference on
Indicators and Concepts of Innovation (ICICI 2008) has been supported by the SCOPES programme
of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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