Innovation Society Today

The Reflexive Creation of Novelty
  • Michael Hutter
  • Hubert Knoblauch
  • Werner Rammert
  • Arnold Windeler
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Society’s ability to reinvent itself is currently under debate. This discussion no longer centers solely on new technologies and economic innovations but on how novelty is currently created in all spheres of society, how it is discerned in its nascent stages, defined in different ways, and asserted in a variety of social spheres, even in the face of resistance. ‘Creative districts’ (Florida 2002) and ‘creative capitalism’ (Kinsley 2008), ‘social,’ ‘open,’ and ‘public innovation’ (Howaltdt and Jacobsen 2011; Chesbrough 2006) are just a few of the buzzwords being cast about in public debates in Europe and the USA.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Michael Hutter
    • 1
  • Hubert Knoblauch
    • 1
  • Werner Rammert
    • 1
  • Arnold Windeler
    • 1
  1. 1.TU BerlinBerlinDeutschland

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