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Research on the history of innovation: from the spiritual to the social

In: A Research Agenda for Social Innovation

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  • Benoît Godin
  • Cornelius Schubert

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Despite the largely negative connotations that the concept of innovation carried until the twentieth century, a positive notion of innovation as spiritual renewal existed during the English Reformation. This chapter documents this moment, then looks at how innovation came to be seen as progressive social change. We argue that social innovation is mostly used and defined in relation or opposition to technological innovation and that it became much more future-oriented in contrast to the return to a previous state that characterized the positive notion of innovation at the Reformation.

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  • Benoît Godin & Cornelius Schubert, 2021. "Research on the history of innovation: from the spiritual to the social," Chapters, in: Jürgen Howaldt & Christoph Kaletka & Antonius Schröder (ed.), A Research Agenda for Social Innovation, chapter 2, pages 21-38, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Shabir, Maria & Pazienza, Pasquale & De Lucia, Caterina, 2023. "Energy innovation and ecological footprint: Evidence from OECD countries during 1990–2018," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).

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