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Das Handbook of Innovation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (edited by Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Arnold Windeler und Birgit Blättel-Mink) ist nun im Erscheinen.

This handbook comprehensively discusses the complex field of innovation research, focusing on perspectives on innovation from the social sciences. It provides a broad scope by going beyond innovation concerning economic change and development, to other spheres of society. It classifies innovation research historically, conceptually, and in terms of its subject matter. It covers major classical as well as the more recent theoretical approaches and latest developments in this field of study. The handbook provides information on empirical findings and developments on various innovation-related issues […]. This is a key resource in innovation research across the social sciences compiled by well-known academics, with contributions from known names in the field.

Darin findet sich auch mein Beitrag »Distributed Innovation Processes: Collective Invention, User Innovation, and Open Innovation« (SpringerLink), der in einer erweiterten Version bereits 2024 als SOI Discussion Paper erschienen ist:

This chapter provides an overview of the concepts of collective invention, user innovation, and open innovation. All three notions represent variants of distributed innovation and can be linked to other ideas of socioeconomic decentralization. The following sections first elaborate on the conceptual differences between collective invention, user innovation, and open innovation. Second, exemplary case studies from the last few decades are presented before more recent varieties of distributed innovation in the development of information technologies are discussed. In this area in particular, it becomes clear that distributed innovation processes and internal research and development activities in organizations are less in competition with each other than in a complementary relationship.