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2023 · Palgrave Macmillan · Edited with Anders Örtenblad

Debating Innovation

Perspectives and Paradoxes of an Idealized Concept

Innovation is almost always written about as a good thing, necessary and self-evidently beneficial. This book declines that assumption. Through a series of paired chapters, one for and one against, it sets out the many ways innovation can be understood, lauded, and criticized, and leaves the reader to do the arguing.

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