Godin, Benoît (Author)
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.
...MoreReview Christophe Lécuyer (2019) Review of "Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 133-134).
Review Eric Schatzberg (January 2020) Review of "Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea". Technology and Culture (pp. 337-340).
Review John Z. Langrish (2017) Review of "Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 180-183).
Review G. Pascal Zachary (2018) Review of "Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 617-618).
Review G. Pascal Zachary (2018) Review of "Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 617-618).
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Godin, Benoit;
Lane, Joseph P.;
(2013)
Pushes and Pulls: Hi(S)tory of the Demand Pull Model of Innovation
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Dudley, Leonard;
(2012)
Mothers of Innovation: How Expanding Social Networks Gave Birth to the Industrial Revolution
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Sheila Jasanoff;
Sebastian Pfotenhauer;
(December 2017)
Panacea or diagnosis? Imaginaries of innovation and the ‘MIT model’ in three political cultures
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D'Andrea, Luciano;
(2009)
Handbook on the socialisation of scientific and technological research: A tool for promoting science and technology socialisation policies addressed to policy makers, research and innovation actors and stakeholders
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Olley, Allan;
(2011)
Just a Beginning: Computers and Celestial Mechanics in the Work of Wallace J. Eckert
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Mackinnon, Lee;
(2014)
Toward an Algorithmic Realism: The Evolving Nature of Astronomical Knowledge in Representations of the Non-Visible
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Smritikumar Sarkar;
(2014)
Technology and rural change in eastern India, 1830-1980
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Tummala, Krishna K.;
(2007)
Notes from the Field: Innovation and development in India
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Bouneau, Christophe;
Burigana, David;
Varsori, Antonio;
(2010)
Les trajectoires de l'innovation technologique et la construction européenne des voies de structuration durable? (Trends in technological innovation and the European construction: The emerging of enduring dynamics?)
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Phelps, Edmund S.;
(2013)
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
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Lee, Rupert;
(2002)
The Eureka! Moment: 100 Key Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century
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Serge Paquier;
(2011)
From following to improving technology: the case of the Swiss gas industry in the 19th century
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David S Jones;
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan;
(August 2018)
Making heart-lung machines work in India: Imports, indigenous innovation and the challenge of replicating cardiac surgery in Bombay, 1952-1962
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David P. Billington, Jr.;
(2020)
From Insight to Innovation: Engineering Ideas That Transformed America in the Twentieth Century
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Dewey, Peter E.;
(2008)
Iron Harvests of the Field: The Making of Farm Machinery in Britain since 1800
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Tedeschi, Paolo;
(2011)
Notes on the Marshall Plan in Lombardy. Technological Innovation and Vocational Training
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McCray, Patrick;
(2012)
From L5 to X Prize: California's Alternative Space Movement
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Amir, Sulfikar;
Nugroho, Yanuar;
(2013)
Beyond the Triple Helix: Framing STS in the Developmental Context
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Goodyear, Anne Collins;
Weitekamp, Margaret A;
(2013)
Analyzing Art and Aesthetics
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Thorsteinsdóttir, Halla;
Singer, Peter A.;
Daar, A. S.;
(2007)
Innovation Cultures in Developing Countries: The Case of Health Biotechnology
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