2022-09-09 Helena Fornstedt

Innovation Resistance: Moving Beyond Dominant Framings This innovation will kill us

Innovation is often viewed in a pro-innovation, pro-firm, manner. Connected to this perception of innovation is a view of human and non-human resistance as a temporary unwanted response that will eventually be overcome. This study challenges these assumptions and explores the manifestation of innovation resistance and the dynamics involved in its entanglement with innovation processes.

Helena Fornstedt

Helena Fornstedt defended her doctoral thesis Innovation Resistance - Moving Beyond Dominant Framings, at Uppsala University 2021, and. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.¶ My research concerns innovation and product development processes in mature environments and markets. Under such market conditions technological innovations are not automatically perceived as positive and different strategies are needed in order for an invention to reach the market. My focus is the health care sector and the market around the electrical grid. I addition to this I am interested in critical cross cultural managemenwithin the food centre FINEST focusing on innovation and sustainable transitions in the food sector. She is currently investigating the innovation processes around the Swedish legume value chain and the potential 'protein shift'. She is interested in research directed by a search for new goals for the economy. In particular, she focuses on sustainable transitions as well as critical and post-growth innovation studies. Moreover, she enjoys popular science communication. For 1,5 years, she had a monthly popular science column in a local newspaper, and she is presently involved in the climate comic project.

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Fornstedt H, 2021, Innovation Resistance - Moving Beyond Dominant Framings [Summary // Full Thesis]

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