The book offers new theoretical perspectives on innovation, analyzes innovation processes in diverse innovation fields, and presents case studies that reflect the diversity of innovations fields.
To what extent and in what sense does innovation characterize our societies today? Innovations are no longer limited to the economic sphere; we find them in almost all areas of society today. Diverse actors generate innovations in different, increasingly reflexive ways. New concepts, practices, and institutional forms such as open source, crowdfunding, or citizen panels expand the spectrum.
Expanding the Innovation Zone.- Innovation Society Today. The Reflexive
Creation of Novelty.- Fragmental Differentiation and the Practice of
Innovation.- Reflexive Innovation.- Communicative Action, the New, and the
Innovation Society.- The Creativity Dispositif and the Social Regimes of the
New.- The Role of Newness in the Experience Economy.- What Is Strategic
Marketing in an Innovation Society? A Frame of Reference.- Innovation by the
Numbers: Crowdsourcing in the Innovation Process.- The Berlin Innovation
Panel: History, Early Results, and Outlook.- Flash Mobs as Innovation. On a
New Social Form of Technically Mediated Congregation.- How Does Novelty Enter
Spatial Planning?- Germanys Energiewende: Path Disruption or Reinforcement
of the Established Path?- Innovating Governance: Epistemic and Political
Reflexivities in the Remaking of Democracy.- Epistemic
Innovation.- Projectification of Science as an Organizational Innovation. A
Figurational Sociological Perspective on Emergence, Diffusion, and
Impact.- Social Innovation.
Dr. Werner Rammert is professor (em.) of sociology at TU Berlin.Dr. Arnold Windeler is professor of sociology at TU Berlin.Dr. Hubert Knoblauch is professor of sociology at TU Berlin.Dr. Michael Hutter is professor (em.) of sociology at TU Berlin.