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innovation studies  

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  • The Oxford English Dictionary credits the economist Joseph Schumpeter with the modern definition of innovation. In his 1939 book Business Cycles, this Harvard University professor distinguished between invention and innovation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Innovation Studies]

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