The foundations of innovation in modern societies: the displacement of concepts and knowledgeability

Staats- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften

Stehr, Nico, Adolf, Marian, Mast, Jason

The foundations of innovation in modern societies: the displacement of concepts and knowledgeability

Stehr, Nico, Adolf, Marian, Mast, Jason: The foundations of innovation in modern societies: the displacement of concepts and knowledgeability, Mind & Society Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, 2013; Jg. Dezember 2012 (Issue 2) Suppl. Volume 1: ---: http://10.1007/s11299-013-0112-x (download: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11299-013-0112-x) .

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Our paper offers a contribution to the growing literature on the sociology of innovation rather than the still dominant economic theory of innovation. We suggest that innovation first and foremost represents a process of cognitive displacement whereby existing metaphorical frameworks are reconstituted to account for new phenomena in a process that changes both the metaphor’s and the new phenomenon’s compositions. We suggest that integral to this process is knowledgeability, or a bundle of social and cognitive competencies that emerge as one of the main prerequisites for innovative thinking. We conclude by examining the most important social and cognitive competencies that structure the possibilities for invention and innovation in the contemporary knowledge economy.

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