Benoît Godin

Benoît Godin
Benoît Godin
Born	1958
Died	5 janvier 2021; CHU de Québec, Hôtel-Dieu de Québe
Education	University of Sussex , Science Policy Research Unit SPRU (Ph.D.); Université Laval: Quebec, QC, CA, Maîtrise ès arts (Science politique)
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Social constructionism
Institutions	Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), CA
Notable ideas	Role of ideology in the genesis of innovation
	Influences Alain Desrosieres;

Benoît Godin is a Canadian philosopher, and sociologist.[1]

Biography

Benoît Godin is mostly known for his research into the history of statistics, of 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 till his death he has been professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique INRS, Québec (CA).[1]

Benoît Godin, The Idea of Technological Innovation: A Brief Alternative History, Edward Elgar Pub; Brief edition (2020).

(As editor with Dominique Vinck) Critical Studies of Innovation: Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias. [3]

Benoît Godin, The Invention of Technological Innovation: Languages, Discourses and Ideology in Historical Perspective, Elgar Publishing (2019)

Benoît Godin, Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea, The MIT Press (2017)

Benoît Godin, Innovation Contested: The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries, Routledge (2015)

Hommage au professeur Benoît Godin, by Sophie Laberge, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), 12 janvier 2021.
Benoît Godin , The Culture of Numbers:From Science to Innovation, Communication presented to the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR)US National Academy of Sciences, Washington May 21, 2001.
Williams, L. D. A. (2020). ‘From Blindness to Light’: A Review of Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck (eds.), Critical Studies of Innovation: Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias. Minerva, 58(2), 309–314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-020-09402-9
Bowker, G. C. (2007). Benoît Godin. Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology: 1920 to the Present. Isis, 98(2), 403–404. https://doi.org/10.1086/521473

Page of Benoît Godin at INRS
Page of the 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.

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