For centuries, innovation was a political and contested concept and linguistic weapon used against one's enemy. To support their case, opponents of innovation made use of arguments from ethos and pathos to give power and sustenance to their criticisms and to challenge the innovators. However, since the nineteenth century the arguments have changed completely. Innovation gradually got rehabilitated. This article looks at one type of rehabilitation: the semantic rehabilitation. People started to reread history and to redescribe what innovation is. What was bad innovation became good innovation because of long-lasting and beneficial effects, so it was believed.
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Innovation
A Study in the Rehabilitation of a Concept
Benoît Godin
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2015
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- Research Article
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- 45–68 (24 total)
Representation of Innovation in Seventeenth-Century England
A View from Natural Philosophy
Benoît Godin
To scholars, the concept of innovation is intimately linked to science and industry. But this is a very recent story. Before the twentieth century, the concept was mainly used in religious and political affairs. The concept had a pejorative meaning
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 24–42 (19 total)
The English Reformation and the Invention of Innovation, 1548–1649
Benoît Godin
contrary to the same; without swearing to any innovation of policie discipline of the kirk.” Such is a king's oath of coronation, as James Hamilton, Scottish Commissioner, put it in 1638. 1 Compare this statement to that of David Lindsay, Bishop of Brechin
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- Research Article
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- 1–22 (22 total)
Innovation in Protest Strategies of Ethiopian Immigrants’ Organizations in Israel
Adi Binhas
the working methods of IEO organizations in recent years? What specific innovations have enhanced the effectiveness of IEO organizations vis-à-vis the government and the public agenda? Using theories of NGO activity, the article analyzes the recent
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 92–110 (19 total)
Innovations in Israel’s Civics Textbooks
Enlightening Trends in Non-Western Democracies
Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Paz Carmel, and Alon Levkowitz
at home and globally ( Lupia 2015 ; Morris et al. 2002: 184 ). And indeed, there are many examples of innovation in civics education in the West. In the United Kingdom, Conservatives introduced changes to civics curricula in the 1980s that stressed
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 52–71 (20 total)
Reconceptualizing Democratic Innovation
“Democratic Innovation Repertoires” and their Impact Within and Beyond Social Movements
Cristina Flesher Fominaya
solidarity and increased boundaries between “us” and “them” in imagined communities under threat. It has curtailed democratic rights and freedoms to protest and assembly, but also stimulated democratic innovation, in many cases in the form of citizen
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- Research Article
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- 78–100 (23 total)
Innovation in Israel
Between Politics, Society, and Culture
Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Fany Yuval, and Assaf Meydani
The past decade has witnessed a growing number of theoretical and empirical studies analyzing the components of innovation; the ways in which it filters into political, social, and cultural systems; how it accelerates; what drives its existence
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–10 (10 total)
Returnees, Institutions, and Networks
Making Space for Technology Entrepreneurship in Beirut
William Benton
While engaged in fieldwork, I spent an afternoon at a cafe in downtown Beirut with a group of project managers affiliated with a corporate-funded entrepreneurship and innovation nonprofit. We were working on a ‘map’ of the local technology
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 69–84 (16 total)
Adaptive Regulation
A Possible Model for Regulation and Innovation in Personal Social Services
Lihi Lahat and Yekoutiel Sabah
characteristics of these services and responding to the need for innovation in public organizations. We propose a comprehensive regulatory process, based on learning, collaboration, and flexible features, as well as a new rhetorical language. By personal social
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 11–30 (20 total)
The Academic Reserve
Israel's Fast Track to High-Tech Success
Gil Baram and Isaac Ben-Israel
reputation as the ‘start-up nation’ and as a major source of technological innovation? The current state of Israel's high-tech and cyber arena is remarkable. As a percentage of GDP, Israel's spending on research and development (R&D) is the highest in the
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 75–91 (17 total)