Abstract

LOPEZ ISAZA, Giovanni Arturo. Perspectives for analyzing the innovation: A journey through theory. Cuad. Adm. [online]. 2006, vol.19, n.31, pp.243-273. ISSN 0120-3592.

The article makes you think about very important elements for going toward innovation: (i) its typology, particular characterizations and descriptions, (ii) its relation with dynamics of knowledge production and learning, (iii) its definition as socially distributed process, (IV) its boarding from neoclassic andneoschumpetherian theories, (v) the different ways to express its training-interaction, and (vi) innovation capabilities concept and the way it’s characterized. The checked literature about different analysis perspectives on the innovation lets you think and design fertile spaces for interventions to encourage the innovating capability of the society, as well as the transformation of the social production and reproduction conditions of knowledge. The text goes deeper on the called Way 2 of knowledge production and shows how wealthy is its elaborated formulation to study some complex reality.

Keywords : Innovation; socially distributed process; technologic creativity.

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