ABSTRACT
Innovation matters in the twenty-first century. We need more and radical innovation to tackle unprecedented global challenges. But, conversely, many frontiers of innovation seem the very source of new existential insecurities. Meanwhile, innovation itself is a focus of intense political economic debate regarding its dwindling stagnation or its runaway acceleration, reflecting the prior two concerns respectively (Gordon, 2012; Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014). It seems, in short, that we cannot sidestep having to look anew at what ‘innovation’ really means as we explore where socio-technical change may lead next.
