LEADER 03940nam 22006495 450 001 9910729736303321 005 20251008162029.0 010 $a3-031-31479-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-31479-7 035 $a(CKB)5580000000551687 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-31479-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30590877 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30590877 035 $a(PPN)272272604 035 $a(OCoLC)1396934989 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010068510 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010176086 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000551687 100 $a20230608d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmpty Innovation $eCauses and Consequences of Society's Obsession with Entrepreneurship and Growth /$fby Olof Hallonsten 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (V, 120 p.) 311 08$a979-88-908422-2-0 311 08$a3-031-31478-6 327 $aChapter 1. The Innovation Society -- Chapter 2. From Forbidden to Cure-Al -- Chapter 3. Economization -- Chapter 4. We?re All Entrepreneurs Now -- Chapter 5. Faster, Better, Stronger -- Chapter 6. Empty and Real Innovation./. 330 $aInnovation is generally viewed as something inherently good, a source of progress and prosperity in our society. But innovation can also have negative, unintended, and wasteful effects, if policies are misdirected and organizations pursue innovation to look good and convey a message, rather than to actually achieve improvements of technologies, services, and products. This book makes the case that innovation has become a buzzword, a political cure-all, and increasingly an empty phrase, and that this has become detrimental to innovation itself. Governmental (and supra-governmental) innovation policy is often unrealistically phrased and shaped, and corporate innovation projects are not seldom meaningless acts of window-dressing. The book describes the problems this presents for society, organizations, and individuals, and seeks explanations for why it has come to be this way. Giving way to a more realistic view of what innovation really is, and how it can be accomplished, the book develops a multifaceted sociological and historical argument where several complementary reasons for the prevalence of ?empty innovation? are proposed. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and all those with an interest in the failures of current innovation strategies. This is an open access book. Olof Hallonsten is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Lund University School of Economics and Management, Sweden. He has published widely in books and journals, with a recent focus on critical studies on the interface of science and society. He has also worked as a consultant for Swedish governmental agencies and the European Commission. 606 $aTechnological innovations 606 $aEntrepreneurship 606 $aNew business enterprises 606 $aIndustries 606 $aInnovation and Technology Management 606 $aEntrepreneurship 606 $aIndustries 615 0$aTechnological innovations. 615 0$aEntrepreneurship. 615 0$aNew business enterprises. 615 0$aIndustries. 615 14$aInnovation and Technology Management. 615 24$aEntrepreneurship. 615 24$aIndustries. 676 $a658.4062 676 $a658.514 686 $aBUS025000$aBUS042000$aBUS070000$2bisacsh 700 $aHallonsten$b Olof$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01058547 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910729736303321 996 $aEmpty Innovation$93565557 997 $aUNINA