Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Problematic frameworks and narratives of innovation. Why is imitation not innovation? / Benoit Godin -- 'Innovation fads' as an alternative research topic to pro-innovation bias: the examples of Jugaad and reverse innovation / Gerald Gaglio -- 'Best practices' as mimesis? Innovation policies in peripheral countries / Tiago Brandao and Carolina Bagattolli -- Innovation and the political state: beyond the myth of technologies and markets / Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer and Joakim Juhl -- Part II: What is left with the pro-innovation bias? Moving towards innovation through withdrawal: the neglect of destruction / Frederic Goulet and Dominique Vinck -- Comparing two cases of outlaw innovation: file sharing and legal highs / Johan Soderberg -- Unattended consequences of innovation / Karl-Erik Sveiby -- Part III: Reactions to innovation. Resistance as a latent factor of innovation / Martin W. Bauer -- Socio-technical dynamics of counter-hegemony and resistance / Herman Thomas, Lucas Becerra and Santiago Garrido -- 'No' and 'slow' innovation strategies as a response to increased innovation speed / Karl-Heinz Leitner -- Part IV: Alternative frameworks. Learning thanks to innovation failure / Dominque Vinck -- The economic rationality of NOvative behavior / Carolina Canibano, Maria-Isabel Encinar and Felix-Fernando Munoz -- Regulatory enforcement as sociotechnical systems maintenance / Lee Vinsel -- A discourse analysis of innovation in academic management literature / Beata Segercrantz, Karl-Erik Sveiby and Karin Berglund -- Physics or biology as models for the study of innovation / John Langrish -- Conclusion: towards critical studies of innovation / Benoit Godin and Dominique Vinck.