BOOK TIP: The totality of innovation processes (Open access)

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management provides a broad and up-to-date overview of innovation management. Over 100 experts contribute articles highlighting both established and emerging issues – from business models and ecosystems to impact investing, radical creativity and dark innovation. The focus is on illuminating innovation processes from a holistic, inclusive and ethical perspective – with elements of gender, power and cultural contexts.

The articles are accessible and structured, often with practical examples and further reading tips. One of the texts is Uppsala researcher Helena Fornstedt’s analysis of resistance to innovation, where she questions the common image of resistance as an obstacle. Instead, she shows how resistance can be seen as a shaping force in the innovation process, and a way to include previously invisible perspectives. (Read previous Esbri article on her research)

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management is free to read via open access, and is aimed at researchers, students and practitioners who want to understand and work with innovation in a deeper, more nuanced way.