Empty Innovation : : Causes and Consequences of Society's Obsession with Entrepreneurship and Growth.

• Author: Hallonsten, Olof.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (117 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Innovation Society -- The Problem -- Conceptual Starting Points -- Aims and Purpose -- Chapter 2: From Forbidden to Cure-All -- Introducing the x-factor -- Innovation Policy and Its Roots -- Mission Economy -- Chapter 3: Economization -- Thinking Like an Economist -- Imbalanced Rationalization -- Managerialism -- No Size Fits All -- Chapter 4: We're All Entrepreneurs Now -- The Entrepreneurship Industry -- The Me Generation -- What Entrepreneurship Really Is -- Chapter 5: Faster, Better, Stronger -- Selling Promises -- The Entrepreneurial State -- The Innovationists -- Move Fast and Break Things -- Chapter 6: Empty and Real Innovation -- Consequences -- Misunderstandings -- Real Innovation -- The Alternative -- Acknowledgments -- Literature -- Index.