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Innovation is one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary research disciplines.
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Acknowledgment
This book is the result of a collaborative effort undertaken over time and distance.
On February 2013, seminal ideas on what it means to examine innovation from a fresh and renewed perspective came from a collaborative workshop organized by the University of Naples Federico II and VTT research on the theme of “co-innovation.” During 2 days of meetings, we shared interests to provide a comprehensive collection of new contributions in this developing research area of innovation and conceived the project of a joint book.
Our initial thoughts have been developed in close collaboration with our colleagues Katri Kallio and Inka Lappalainen from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Evelina Saari from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Karo Tammela from Aalto University, Monica Pedrazza from the University of Verona, and Maria Colurcio and Angela Caridà from the University of Catanzaro. Other colleagues added to our initial idea of a new book on innovation (see List of Contributors). Without their expertise and work, this book’s format could not have been developed. We express our deepest gratitude and appreciation to all authors for their outstanding contributions.
Our intellectual debts are too numerous to detail at length, but we would like to express our particular gratitude to Bob Lusch and Steve Vargo. First of all, they agreed to be contributors when the idea for this book was only in its seminal stages and gave us a special gift by accepting our request that they write the foreword to the book. But above all, their amazing service-dominant logic significantly inspired us to take on the project of the new book, which arose from questions on how traditional approaches have understood innovation to date. Our special thanks also go to Silvia Gherardi. We started to make our first steps into the jungle of studies on “practice” some years ago, and we were intrigued about the different view of society and economics that the practice approach conveys. Our reading of Silvia’s articles and books, as well as meeting with her and further debating the topic, greatly influenced the way we formulated our concepts and helped us to see innovation in a different way. Finally, we would like to thank Marja Toivonen for her encouragement and broad scientific insight during the process.
We also extend our sincere thanks to all reviewers who provided insightful input and suggestions. Our special thanks go to, Annika Ravald, Arho Suominen, Chiara Cantù, Elina Jaakkola, Hanna Lehtimäki, Harri Laihonen, Helge Löbler, Jaqueline Pels, Jennifer Chandler, Kirsi Hyytinen, Krista Keränen, Laura Seppänen, Lerzan Aksoy, Linda Peters, Luise Li Langergaard, Marie Taillard, Montserrat Diaz Mendez, Päivi Ristimäki, Patrik Gottfridsson, Samuel Sebhatu, Stefan Holmlid, and Stefano Consiglio for their support and donation of their precious time to providing constructive and critical reviews.
The preparation of this book has been made possible through the support of Valeria Improta; her contribution to our editing work has been gratefully acknowledged.
We also thank the publisher, Springer, and especially Hemalatha Gunasekaran and Prashanth Mahagaonkar who guided us through the publishing process.
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Russo-Spena, T., Mele, C., Nuutinen, M. (2017). Introduction. In: Russo-Spena, T., Mele, C., Nuutinen, M. (eds) Innovating in Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43380-6_1
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