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Epistemic Innovation

How Novelty Comes About in Science

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Recent scholarship in the social sciences subsumes the entire range of social innovations under the concept of innovation (e.g., Hutter et al., this volume; Rammert 2010, 2014; Passoth and Rammert, this volume). In this literature a concept of innovation oriented towards scientific and technical progress and its economic dimension serves as a counterfoil for such an expanded understanding of innovation. In so doing, technical innovations in particular but also scientific innovations are presumed to be adequately understood and rarely considered explicitly.

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    Martina Merz

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    Arnold Windeler

  3. Institut für Soziologie, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Hubert Knoblauch

  4. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH, Berlin, Germany

    Michael Hutter

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Merz, M. (2018). Epistemic 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_15

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