40.3 - Methods of Innovation Research

Special Issue: Methods of Innovation Research: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed-Method Approaches

• Robert Jungmann, Nina Baur & Dzifa Ametowobla: Grasping Processes of Innovation Empirically. A Call for Expanding the Methodological Toolkit. An Introduction.
• Michael Hutter, Hubert Knoblauch, Werner Rammert & Arnold Windeler: Innovation Society Today. The Reflexive Creation of Novelty.
• Eva Bund, Ulrike Gerhard, Michael Hoelscher & Georg Mildenberger: A Methodological Framework for Measuring Social Innovation.
• Thomas Laux: Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a Method for Innovation Research: Analysing Legal Innovations in OECD Countries.
• Julian Stubbe: Comparative Heuristics from an STS Perspective. Inquiring "Novelty" in Material Practice.
• Anina Engelhardt: The Sociology of Knowledge Approach of Discourse Analysis in Innovation Research: Evaluation of Innovations in Contemporary Fine Art.
• Philipp Altmann: Studying Discourse Innovations: The Case of the Indigenous Movement in Ecuador.
• Anika Noack: Hermeneutical Interpretations in Ethnographies of Innovations. From New Ideas to Social Innovations.
• Grit Petschick: Ethnographic Panels for Analyzing Innovation Processes.
• Annika Naber: Qualitative Experiment as a Participating Method in Innovation Research.
• Dörte Ohlhorst & Susanne Schön: Constellation Analysis as a Means of Interdisciplinary Innovation Research–Theory Formation from the Bottom Up.
• Georg Reischauer: Combining Artefact Analysis, Interview and Participant Observation to Study the Organizational Sensemaking of Knowledge-Based Innovation.
• Jochen Gläser & Grit Laudel: A Bibliometric Reconstruction of Research Trails for Qualitative Investigations of Scientific Innovations.
• Philip Roth: Including the Diary Method in the Investigation of Practices Constituting Social Innovation Networks.