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Today, innovation as ‘creative destruction’ (Schumpeter 2003: 83) is becoming a social imperative that increasingly characterizes innovation societies far beyond their economies (Hutter et al., this volume). This development is accelerated through reflexive innovations that actors constitute in interactions drawing on modern institutions, systems of regulation, and the actors’ capabilities. These specific conditions, both symbolic and material, influence which innovations are produced, advanced, and transformed and how this occurs, and these conditions themselves are again and again produced and reproduced in processes of innovation.
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Windeler, A. (2018). Reflexive Innovation. In: Rammert, W., Windeler, A., Knoblauch, H., Hutter, M. (eds) Innovation Society Today. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19269-3_4
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