TY - BOOK AU - Bontems,Vincent Karim AU - Bontems,Vincent Karim TI - What does Innovation stand for? Review of a watchword in research policies PY - 2014///. N1 - 81 N2 - Innovation is on the agenda of all scientific policies without really being defined. The study of the evolution of the works that argued to have defined a consisting concept of innovation (Bacon, Machiavelli), or developed a coherent theory of innovation (Tarde, Rogers, Schumpeter), provides insight into some weakness of the models of the innovation process (“linear theory”, “chain-linked model”), or even into the contradictions that are occulted by a naïve use of the concept. Innovation therefore appears as a “watchword” legitimizing that “everything changes so that nothing changes”.JEL codes: O31, O31, G38, O32, B25 UR - https://shs.cairn.info/revue-journal-of-innovation-economics-2014-3-page-39?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -