Understanding Innovation Differently: A Literature Review on Innovation, Social Innovation and Innovation in Education
Type
conference contribution
Date Issued
2021-02
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Abstract
The innovation paradigm in the last eighty years shows that innovation is mainly understand as technological transformations. This understanding of innovation has slowly evolved, but the permanence of this understanding as a technological transformation is still present in most of the current scientific and political discourses. This research is an historical analysis and literature review of the innovation paradigm including the concepts of innovation, social innovation, and innovation in education by drawing in the most relevant literature during the period 1939-2019. These work present different perspectives of innovation over time, in order to recognize the evolution of this concept and to identify the relevance of innovation in the field of education.