Innovationism and the New Public Intellectuals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23200260 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olof Hallonsten (0000-0003-4546-3562, Lund University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 77-92 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | International Studies in Entrepreneurship (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-031-49196-2_5 |
| OpenAlex | W4391716255 |
| ISBN | 9783031491962 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
Public intellectuals were once honest and knowledgeable academics who engaged in critical debate and spoke truth to power, but seem today rather to be celebrities who make vast amounts of money from selling an oversimplified message to policymakers and the public. This chapter discusses the role of the new public intellectuals for the rise of oversimplified and misguided innovation policy, both in the wider context of the recent spread of the ideology of “innovationism” and with specific attention to the sociological mechanisms involved. With the help of a conceptual discussion and some key examples, the chapter issues some warnings of what might happen when public intellectuals give up essential virtues of academic work in favor of fame and fortune, and the role they can then come to play in the spread of “innovationism” and misdirected innovation policy agendas.
Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Ideology · Key (lock) · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public policy · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · History · Innovation Policy and RD · Law · Philosophy · University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
Globalization and its discontents
The Positive sum strategy
The sociology of science
Public Intellectuals
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development
The Precariat
Challenging the “deficit model” of innovation
Reconceptualising the ‘policy mix’ for innovation
Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention
Regional innovation systems
A Culture of Growth
The Spirit Level
The Intellectual and Social Organization Of the Sciences
Cities and the Creative Class
Empty Innovation
Doing a Florida thing
Mission Economy
The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research
The Institutional Logics Perspective
Erkenntnis und Interesse
The Division of Labour in Society
Panacea or diagnosis? Imaginaries of innovation and the 'MIT model' in three political cultures
Performing ambiguous policy
Struggling with the Creative Class
Stop evaluating science
On the essential role of organized skepticism in science's 'internal and lawful autonomy' (Eigengesetzlichkeit)
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |