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Creative Rationality and Innovation
This book urges us to be creative in our way of thinking about innovation. Adopting an artificial perspective, the author emphasizes creative rationality: a form of thought that encourages knowledge crossing and invites an adventurous transgression. The question of how such a form of thought might be developed is addressed through a detailed examination of the educational system. The book frees itself from many of the myths that surround innovation, including the predominance of what the author calls the linear and hierarchical model.
Science, Technology and Innovation Culture
We are facing unprecedented challenges today. For many of us, innovation would be our last hope. But how can it be done? Is it enough to bet on the scientific culture? How can technical culture contribute to innovation? How is technical culture situated with regards to what we name collectively the culture of innovation? It is these questions that this book intends to address.
Innovation for Society
In a context marked by unprecedented challenges (the struggle against inequalities, climate change, etc.), innovation appears to be the readymade universal scapegoat. Innovation for Society, however, suggests that we look at innovation differently, by inviting us to innovate with consciousness. To do this, the authors introduce an approach they call Penser le Sens de l’Innovation (P.S.I., or “thinking about the meaning of innovation”), comprising a set of tools largely from the humanities and social sciences (observation, cartography, creativity, storytelling, etc.) to lead us to this “meaning”. By considering the question of “meaning” from the point of view of both direction and signification, the authors rehabilitate the eminently political question of knowing which innovations we choose for which societies.
Innovation Economics, Engineering and Management Handbook 2
Innovation, in economic activity, in managerial concepts and in engineering design, results from creative activities, entrepreneurial strategies and the business climate. Innovation leads to technological, organizational and commercial changes, due to the relationships between enterprises, public institutions and civil society organizations. These innovation networks create new knowledge and contribute to the dissemination of new socio-economic and technological models, through new production and marketing methods. Innovation Economics, Engineering and Management Handbook 2 is the second of the two volumes that comprise this book. The main objectives across both volumes are to study the innovation processes in todays information and knowledge society; to analyze how links between research and business have intensified; and to discuss the methods by which innovation emerges and is managed by firms, not only from a local perspective but also a global one. The studies presented in these two volumes contribute toward an understanding of the systemic nature of innovations and enable reflection on their potential applications, in order to think about the meaning of growth and prosperity
Innovation Economics, Engineering and Management Handbook 1
Innovation, in economic activity, in managerial concepts and in engineering design, results from creative activities, entrepreneurial strategies and the business climate. Innovation leads to technological, organizational and commercial changes, due to the relationships between enterprises, public institutions and civil society organizations. These innovation networks create new knowledge and contribute to the dissemination of new socio-economic and technological models, through new production and marketing methods. Innovation Economics, Engineering and Management Handbook 1 is the first of the two volumes that comprise this book. The main objectives across both volumes are to study the innovation processes in todays information and knowledge society; to analyze how links between research and business have intensified; and to discuss the methods by which innovation emerges and is managed by firms, not only from a local perspective but also a global one. The studies presented in these two volumes contribute toward an understanding of the systemic nature of innovations and enable reflection on their potential applications, in order to think about the meaning of growth and prosperity.
The Future
For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
Local Energy Communities
This book draws on social science analysis to understand the ongoing dynamics within and surrounding local energy communities in reliably electrified countries: Belgium, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It offers a comprehensive overview of recent results and thus outlines a diversity of drivers and levers for scaling up energy communities or, at least, local energy sharing. Analysing the main types of energy communities such as collective self-consumption, citizen cooperatives and peer-to-peer digital platforms, the book does not only raise new questions for social scientists, but also offers a comprehensive overview for a...
Quand l'innovation fait la ville durable
La ville durable renvoie à une notion encore peu stabilisée, et dont les modalités de la «fabrique» restent inexplorées. Cet ouvrage se focalise sur l’analyse des dynamiques, des processus et des jeux d’acteurs qui contribuent à faire évoluer les modèles urbains existants. Il montre que l’innovation technologique, organisationnelle, institutionnelle et sociale constitue un prisme central de la compréhension de la fabrique de la ville durable. Combinant entrées analytiques, méthodologiques et empiriques, il privilégie une perspective interdisciplinaire et confronte différentes approches ; il accorde une place importante aux illustrations sectorielles (bâtiment, énergies renouvelables, réseaux urbains, etc.) et territoriales (villes et régions, en France et à l’étranger) des processus d’innovation urbaine durable, mais aussi aux obstacles (techniques, psychologiques, culturels ou encore économiques) qui en freinent le déploiement. Une référence pour les étudiants, les chercheurs et les praticiens en urbanisme et aménagement du territoire.
L’innovation au service de la société
Dans un contexte général marqué par des défis sans précédent – lutte contre les inégalités, changement climatique, diminution des ressources, etc. –, l’innovation technologique est souvent stigmatisée et apparaît comme un parfait bouc-émissaire responsable de tous les maux. L’innovation peut cependant être au service de la société, pour peu que l’on tienne compte de son « sens » afin d’innover en conscience. Cet ouvrage introduit ainsi une approche appelée « Penser le sens de l’innovation » (P.S.I.) comprenant un ensemble d’outils issus des sciences humaines et sociales comme l’observation, la cartographie, la créativité, la narration, etc. Il considère la question du « sens » comme centrale et l’appréhende tant du point de vue de la direction que de la signification de l’innovation. Ainsi, cette approche a pour but de renouveler la question éminemment politique de savoir quelles innovations doivent être conçues pour quelles sociétés.
