Editorial: Going beyond the hard core of innovation. Non-technological and non-economic dimensions of innovation systems
Roth, Steffen Wetzel, Ralf Muller, Karel
Roth, Steffen
Wetzel, Ralf
Muller, Karel
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2011
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International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development
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3
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1
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1
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11
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Against the background of the current ‘technology goes economic market’ focus of mainstream innovation research, this editorial introduces contributions to a special issue explicitly devoted to the corresponding research gap: non-technological and non-economic innovations are indeed hardly explored; even approaches focussing on non-technological or social innovations still have a strong bias towards the economy. In contrast to both the mainstream and these alternative approaches to innovation, the editorial outlines a concept of socially robust innovations, i.e., innovations that have impact on both economic and non-economic spheres of society, and that can therefore be supposed to be more profitable in terms of, again, both economic and non-economic profit.
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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour, Behavioral and Social Science, 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure