Innovation is one of those motherhood terms – who could possibly be against it. Also, it seems to breed multiple labels for what is essentially the same “thing.” Check out my blog post on “Concept Fetishism“. Here’s an alphabetical list, fwiw. Comments welcome, especially on what is missing and what is essentially duplication and just different people pissing on the same lamp-post.
Absorptive capacity
Absorptive capacity, Demand-pull
Absorptive capacity, Potential
Absorptive capacity, Realized
Absorptive capacity, Relative
Absorptive capacity, Science-push
Actors
Adaptive capacity
Adhocracy
Agency, distributed
Agency, embedded
Ambidextrous organisations
Amortisation
Anchoring
Anchoring, Network
Anchoring, Institutional
Anchoring, Technological
Announcement Effect
Applied research
Architectural innovation
Assets – complementary
Assets, co-specialised
Assets – fixed
Assets – generic
Assets – liquid
Assets -specialised
Assets – stranded
Assets – sweated
Attackers’ Advantage
Basic research
Breakthrough innovation
Bohemias (as niches)
Bootleg innovation
Boundary conditions
Boundary organisations
Boundary spanners
Boundary work
Branching innovation
Breakthrough
Bricolage (see also recombinant innovation)
Bridging Markets
Business cycles
Business model innovation
Capability – assimilation
Capability – expoloitation
Capability- knowledge acquisition
Capability – transformation
Capability evolution (a reconfiguration mechanism)
Capabilities, dynamic
Capabilities, operational
Capabilities push
Capability substitution (a reconfiguration mechanism)
Capability transformation (a reconfiguration mechanism)
Capacity factors
Capacity-enhancing innovations
Capacity-destroying innovations
Capital, Finance
Capital, human
Capital investment
Capital, seed
Capital, Venture
Capitalism
Challenge-driven innovation
Closed innovation
Co-evolution
Cognitive distance
Cognitive legitimacy
Combinative capabilities
Combinatorial innovation
Common innovation
Competence-destroying innovation
Competence-enhancing innovation
Competence-expanding innovation
Competence Trap
Competencies, core
Continuous Innovation
Core competencies
Core rigidities
Corporate social innovation
Costs, bargaining see also
Costs, policing and enforcement see also
Costs, search and information see also
Costs, switching
Cost, opportunity
Costs, transaction
Cost curve
Creative accumulation
Creative destruction
Creovation
Cumulative innovation
Decisive demonstration
Demand-pull (see also “technology-push”)
Demand-pull absorptive capacity
Derivative Innovation
Destabilisation
Developmental state
Diffusion
Discontinuous Innovation
Disruptive innovation
Distributed innovation
Dominant design
Dynamic Capabilities
Early adopters
Ecological Modernisation
Eco-innovation
Eco-innovation, incremental
Eco-innovation, radical
Economies of Scale
Elevator pitch
Embedded agency
Emergent industry
Emergent Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship, institutional
Entropy
Environmental Innovation Strategies
Evasive Innovation
Evolutionary Innovation
Expectation management
Experience curve
Exploitation
Exploration
Externality
Externality, inframarginal
Externality, negative
Externality, positional
Externality, positive
Externality, technological
Firm entry
Finance Capital
First mover advantage
Focusing events
Framing
Free-rider problem
Frugal innovation
Fundamental Innovation
Global Production Networks
Global Value Chains
Grid parity
Hedging strategy
Hidden Developmental State
Human Capital
Hype Cycles
Impact Science
Inclusive innovation
Incremental eco-innovation
Incremental innovation
Incumbents
Incumbent-challenger dynamics (ICD)
Incumbent’s curse
Industry architecture
Industry-level attention
Industry participants
Inframarginal externality
Innovation
Innovation, architectural
Innovation, bootleg
Innovation, branching
Innovation, breakthrough
Innovation, business model
Innovation Chain
Innovation, challenge driven
Innovation, closed
Innovation clusters
Innovation, combinatorial
Innovation, common
Innovation, competence-destroying
Innovation, competence-enhancing
Innovation, competence-expanding
Innovation, continuous
Innovation, corporate social
Innovation, cumulative
Innovation, derivative
Innovation, discontinuous
Innovation, disruptive
Innovation, distributed
Innovation, eco-
Innovation effect
Innovation effort
Innovation, emergent
Innovation, evasive
Innovation, evolutionary
Innovation, frugal
Innovation, fundamental
Innovation, identity-challenging
Innovation, identity-sustaining
Innovation, inclusive
Innovation, incremental
Innovation, innovative
Innovation, integrated
Innovation Management
Innovation, mass
Innovation, national systems of
Innovation, non-technological
Innovation, normative
Innovation, open
Innovation, outside
Innovation, platform
Innovation, process
Innovation, product
Innovation, radical
Innovation, recombinant
Innovation, responsible
Innovation, reverse
Innovation, service
Innovation, service-logic
Innovation, social
Innovation, spontaneous
Innovation, strategic
Innovation strategies
Innovation Studies
Innovation, sustainable
Innovation systems
Innovation, technological
Innovation, user
Innovation, value
Innovation, Variation
Institutional anchoring
Institutional entrepreneurship
Institutional work
Institutional shifts
Integrated innovation
Intellectual property
Inter-firm alliances
Investment, capital
Investment, learning
Investment, return on
Jevons’ Paradox
Joy’s Law
Kluge
Kondratiev waves
Knowledge development
Knowledge management
Knowledge spillover
Learning-by-doing
Learning-by-searching
Learning-by-using
Learning curve
Learning, experience-based
Learning investment
Learning networks
Learning rate
Learning spaces
Legacy systems
Legitimation
Legitimation, cultural
Legitimation, cognitive
Legitimation, normative
Legitimation, socio-political
Legitimation, regulatory
Liability of Newness
Linear model of innovation
Lock-in (compare Path Dependency)
Long Wave theory
Market creation (see market formation)
Market failure
Market formation (see market creation)
Market window
Market, bridging
Market, mass
Market,nursing
Market-pull
Market transformation
Mass Innovation
Mental maps
Meta-innovation
Minimum Efficient Scale
Model of innovation, linear
Model of innovation, systemic
National Systems of Innovation
Negative externality
Networks
Network anchoring
Networks, learning
Newness, liability of
Niche construction
Niches
Niche anchoring
Niche splintering
Non-technological innovation
Normative innovation
Nursing Markets
Open Innovation (Motherhood and apple-pie adjectives)
Open Sustainability innovation
Operational Capabilities
Opportunity cost
Outside Innovation
Palimpsest
Path creation
Path Dependency
Peak of inflated expectations
Performance overshooting
Peter Principle
Plateau of productivity (hype cycles)
Platform innovation
Political Aspects of Innovation
Porter Hypothesis
Positional externality
Positive externality
Post-normal science
Potential absorptive capacity
Presumptive Anomaly
Problems, super-wicked
Problems, wicked
Process innovation
Process management
Product innovation
Production science
Proof of concept
Protected spaces
Protective space
Public good
Punctuated Equilibrium
Pure research – see basic research
Radical eco-innovation
Radical Innovation
Realized absorptive capacity
Recombinant Innovation
Reconfiguration mechanisms (capability substitution, capability evolution and capability transformation)
Red Queen effect
Redescription
Regulatory capture
Regulator credibility
Regulatory science
Regulatory state
Relative Absorptive Capacity
Rent seeking
Research, applied
Research, basic
Research, pure
Research and Development
Response capacity
Responsible Innovation (Motherhood and apple-pie adjectives)
Return on investment
Reverse Engineering
Reverse innovation
Reverse salients
Rigidities, Core
Sailing ship effect
Science, impact
Science, post-normal
Science, production
Science-push absorptive capacity
Science, regulatory
Seed capital
Serendipity
Service innovation
Service-logic innovation
Skunkworks
Slope of Enlightenment
Social Innovation (radical, transformative)
Sociology of Expectations
Socio-political legitimation
Spontaneous innovation
State
State, developmentalist
State, hidden developmentalist
State, regulatory
Stop-and-go funding
Strategic Innovation
Strategic Niche Management
Supply chains
Sustainable innovation
Swing producer
Switching costs
Systemic model of innovation
Technology appraisal
Technological affordances
Technological determinism
Technological discontinuities
Technological Innovation
Technological Innovation System
Technology-forcing policy
Technology-push
Technology readiness level
Technology-specific advocacy coalitions (compare instrument constituencies)
Technology trigger
Technological anchoring
Technological externality
Technophilia
Technophobia
Trading zone
Transaction costs
Transformational experience
Transilience
Transilience Index
Trough of Disappointment (compare Slough of despond!)
Uncanny valley
Unintended consequences
Unit cost
User innovation
Valley of Death
Valley of Obsolescence
Value chain
Value drain
Value innovation
Value leak
Value networks
Variation innovation
Vendor lock-in
Venture Capital
Vested interests
Veto power
Weitzman’s maximum likelihood procedure
White elephant
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