There are innovations that are invisible or not considered valuable in established research. Often, these are innovations that involve technical solutions developed by public organizations – even though they have played an important role in developing new technologies. <\/p>\n\n
In the book Dark Innovation – After Neoliberal Tools and Techniques <\/em>, author and professor Ryan T. MacNeil argues that innovation research has a strong neoliberal bias, with public sector product and technology innovations often marginalized, while private sector innovations receive the most attention and recognition. <\/p>\n\n The thesis is driven by practical cases from Canada’s Atlantic coast. There, public organizations have developed new technologies to monitor and understand nature, such as the ocean floor – an area less explored than the planet Mars. <\/p>\n\n With this book, the author wants to encourage innovation research to broaden its perspective and include all types of innovation that have a major societal impact. Even the “bad” ones that are government-funded. <\/p>\n\n