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April 2012 This book looks behind the innovation frenzy characterizing society today. It brings attention to the commercial waste, policy ineffectiveness and human suffering caused by the way corporations have executed and policy makers have regulated innovation. It emphasizes the unexploited opportunities of approaches that consider also long term and undesirable consequences of innovation. • The book reveals the spin and shows how the innovation concept is used to drive political agendas. • Innovation studies are totally dominated by economic theory; other perspectives are neglected. Less than 1% of innovation studies address • It is generally believed that more innovation is better – the book shows how accelerating financial innovation contributed to the Global Financial Crisis. • ICT is a major driver of CO2 emissions when the rarely studied indirect effects of innovation are included. • Aternative models for new product development processes are proposed |
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