Abstract
AbstractThis article introduces the notion of cultural innovation, which requires adapting our approach to co-creation. The argument opens with a first conceptualization of cultural innovation as an additional and autonomous category of the complex processes of co-creation. The dimensions of cultural innovation are contrasted against other forms of innovation. In a second step, the article makes an unprecedented attempt in describing processes and outcomes of cultural innovation, while showing their operationalization in some empirical case studies. In the conclusion, the article considers policy implications resulting from the novel definition of cultural innovation as the outcome of complex processes that involve the reflection of knowledge flows across the social environment within communities of practices while fostering the inclusion of diversity in society. First and foremost, cultural innovation takes a critical stance against inequalities in the distribution of knowledge and builds innovation for improving the welfare of individuals and communities.
Highlights
What does cultural innovation stand for? There are several occurrences of the term, which has been receiving increased usage in Europe after being adopted for designating a strategy working group dedicated to the research infrastructures for Social Sciences and the Humanities, social and cultural innovation (ESFRI 2018)
We take it that policymakers, researchers in Science and Technology Studies as well as economists would want to know more about a notion that finds its origin in the domain of cultural economics, innovation economics, and social innovation studies (Godin 2007, 2015; Bontems 2014)
We are talking of cultural innovation as a new category that results from the processes generating it, namely those related to co-creation
Summary
What does cultural innovation stand for? There are several occurrences of the term, which has been receiving increased usage in Europe after being adopted for designating a strategy working group dedicated to the research infrastructures for Social Sciences and the Humanities, social and cultural innovation (ESFRI 2018). Obviously, the fact that the term has been introduced by the European Commission can have many explanations. For example, of the need of mediating between various pressures and requests, while trying to hold together the world of ‘Science in Society’ and the variegated humanities world and eventually link humanities themes to innovation It seems that the meaning of cultural innovation has been taken for granted so far as evident in a pragmatic framework. We reflect on cultural innovation in a way that is triggered by a specific policy discourse We take it that policymakers, researchers in Science and Technology Studies as well as economists would want to know more about a notion that finds its origin in the domain of cultural economics, innovation economics, and social innovation studies (Godin 2007, 2015; Bontems 2014). We are talking of cultural innovation as a new category that results from the processes generating it, namely those related to co-creation
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