Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach

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Becerra, Lucas Dardo; Thomas, Hernan Eduardo
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2023
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This comment engages with two questions introduced by Alan Irwin’s introductory essay to this thematic collection on STS and Innovation (2023), and invites the reader to reflect on them as parts of a problemsolution relationship: When it comes to engaging with and acting upon socio-technical change, is ‘innovation’ part of the solution or of the problem? What new conceptual and empirical resources can STS bring to the study of innovation? The ‘problematic side’ (the first question) of our argument is focused on the theoretical constraints of ‘innovation’ as an analytical concept. Then, to address the ‘solution side’ (the second question), we introduce an approach to socio-technical change: the interactive socio-cognitive model. This model is presented as an analytical framework that makes explicit the explanatory (and programmatic) advantages that the notion of socio-technical change has compared to innovation.
Fil: Becerra, Lucas Dardo. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Thomas, Hernan Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
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Socio-Technical Approach
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title Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach
spellingShingle Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach
Becerra, Lucas Dardo
Innovation
Socio-Technical Approach
title_short Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach
title_full Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach
title_fullStr Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach
title_full_unstemmed Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach
title_sort Innovation Doesn’t Work: The Explanatory Power of a Socio-Technical Approach
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Becerra, Lucas Dardo
Thomas, Hernan Eduardo
author Becerra, Lucas Dardo
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Thomas, Hernan Eduardo
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Socio-Technical Approach
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Socio-Technical Approach
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This comment engages with two questions introduced by Alan Irwin’s introductory essay to this thematic collection on STS and Innovation (2023), and invites the reader to reflect on them as parts of a problemsolution relationship: When it comes to engaging with and acting upon socio-technical change, is ‘innovation’ part of the solution or of the problem? What new conceptual and empirical resources can STS bring to the study of innovation? The ‘problematic side’ (the first question) of our argument is focused on the theoretical constraints of ‘innovation’ as an analytical concept. Then, to address the ‘solution side’ (the second question), we introduce an approach to socio-technical change: the interactive socio-cognitive model. This model is presented as an analytical framework that makes explicit the explanatory (and programmatic) advantages that the notion of socio-technical change has compared to innovation.
Fil: Becerra, Lucas Dardo. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Thomas, Hernan Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
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