Book ID: CBB245620351

Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea (2017)

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Godin, Benoît (Author)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2017
Edition Details: Book Series: Inside Technology
Physical Details: 344 pages
Language: English

Benoît Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.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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Authors & Contributors
Singer, Peter A.
Sarkar, Smritikumar
Thorsteinsdóttir, Halla
Melnick, Daniel
Daar, A. S.
Sebastian Pfotenhauer
Concepts
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Technological innovation
Science and technology, relationships
Historiography
Technology and society
Transmission of ideas
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
India
China
Mumbai (India)
South Korea
Switzerland
Latin America
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
International Business Machines Corporation
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