NOvation Statement of Aims [Original Version]

NOvation Statement of Aims [Original Version]

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The international journal NOvation: Critical Studies of Innovation was launched to contribute to the rethinking and debunking of innovation narratives Roller in STS (Science, Technology and Society) and STI (Science, Technology, and Innovation).There is a need to critically examine studies of innovation and obtain a clearer portrait of innovation than the depiction this field has been accustomed to.The journal questions the current narratives of innovation and offers a forum for discussion of some different interpretations of Laces innovation, not only its virtues, but also its implications.

In this sense, NO refers to non-innovative behaviors, which are as important to our societies as innovation is.Failures, imitation and negative effects of innovation, to take just some examples of non-innovation or NOvation, are scarcely considered and rarely form part of theories of innovation.