Benoît Godin was a Canadian political scientist and sociologist. ^[1]

Biography

Benoît Godin is mostly known for his research into the history of statistics, statistics of innovation, and of the ideological roots of the concept of innovation. ^[2] After a first degree at the Université Laval (1984) in Québec (CA), he obtained a PhD at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) the University of Sussex (UK) in 1994). From February 1993 until his death he was professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique INRS, Québec (CA). ^[1]

Work

The work of Benoît Godin covers both the history of quantification and that of innovation. He worked on measurement statistics in science, on the history of science proper, as well as that of technology and innovation. In the last years of his life he focused on the intellectual history of innovation, noting how the ‘superlative’ connotation of the term innovation is recent, in relative terms, as it had a rather negative connotation until the late 1960s or early 1970s. ^[3]

Books

• Godin, Benoit (2020). The idea of technological innovation : a brief alternative history. Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham. ISBN  978-1-83910-400-8. OCLC  1152021488.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
• (As editor with Dominique Vinck) Critical Studies of Innovation: Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias. ^[4]
• Godin, Benoit (2019). The invention of technological innovation : languages, discourses and ideology in historical perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham, UK. ISBN  978-1-78990-334-8. OCLC  1125747489.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
• Godin, Benoit (2017). Models of innovation : the history of an idea. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN  978-0-262-33880-6. OCLC  990341355.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
• Godin, Benoit (2015). Innovation contested : the idea of innovation over the centuries. New York, New York. ISBN  978-1-315-85560-8. OCLC  903958473.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
• Bowker, Geoffrey C. (1 June 2007). "Benoît Godin: Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology: 1920 to the Present". Isis. 98 (2): 403–404. doi: 10.1086/521473. ISSN  0021-1753. ^[5]
• Handbook on alternative theories of innovation. Benoît. Godin, Gérald Gaglio, Dominique Vinck. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. 2021. ISBN  978-1-78990-230-3. OCLC  1285169135.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) CS1 maint: others ( link)

See also

• Innovation
• Science and technology studies
• Social construction of technology

References

External links

• Page of Benoît Godin at INRS
• Page of The Idea of Innovation, A project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
• CASTI Network, Conceptual Approaches to Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Interdisciplinary Research Network.