Contents: Innovation : from the forbidden to a cliché / Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck
Part I Problematic frameworks and narratives of innovation
1. Why is imitation not innovation? / Benoît Godin
2. "Innovation fads" as an alternative research topic to pro-innovation bias. the examples of jugaad and reverse innovation / Gérald Gaglio
3. 'Best practices' as mimesis? innovation policies in peripheral countries / Tiago Brandão and Carolina Bagattolli
4. Innovation and the political state : beyond the myth of technology and markets / Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer and Joakim Juhl
Part II What is left with the pro-innovation bias
5. Moving towards innovation through withdrawal : the neglect of destruction / Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck
6. Comparing two cases of outlaw innovation : file sharing and legal highs / Johan Söderberg
7. Unattended consequences of innovation / Karl-Erik Sveiby
Part III Reactions to innovation
8. Resistance as a latent factor of innovation / Martin W. Bauer
9. Socio-technical dynamics of counter-hegemony and resistance / Hernan Thomas, Lucas Becerra and Santiago Garrido
10. "No" and "slow" innovation strategies as response to increased innovation speed / Karl-Heinz Leitner
Part IV Alternatives frameworks
11. Learning thanks to innovation failure / Dominique Vinck
12. The economic rationality of novative behavior / Carolina Cañibano, María-Isabel Encinar and Félix-Fernando Muñoz
13. Regulatory enforcement as sociotechnical systems maintenance / Lee Vinsel
14. A discourse analysis of innovation in academic management literature / Beata Segercrantz, Karl-Erik Sveiby and Karin Berglund
15. Physics or biology as models for the study of innovation / John Langrish
Conclusion : toward critical innovation studies / Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck
Index.