Benoît Godin
{{short description|Canadian sociologist of science and innovation}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
| region = Western philosophy
| era = 21st-century philosophy
| name = Benoît Godin
| birth_date = May 17, 1958
| birth_place =
| death_date = January 5, 2021
| death_place = CHU de Québec, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
| education = University of Sussex, Science Policy Research Unit SPRU (Ph.D.)
Université Laval: Quebec, QC, CA, Maîtrise ès arts (Science politique)
| institutions = Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), CA
| school_tradition = Social constructionism
| notable_works =
| notable_ideas = Role of ideology in the genesis of innovation
| awards =
}}
Benoît Godin was a Canadian political scientist and sociologist.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-12 |title=Hommage au professeur Benoît Godin |url=https://inrs.ca/actualites/hommage-au-professeur-benoit-godin/ |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=INRS |language=fr-FR}}
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.Benoît Godin, [http://www.csiic.ca/PDF/GUIRR.pdf 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. 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).
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.{{Cite journal |last=Vinck |first=Dominique |date=2021-01-02 |title=Benoît Godin (1958–2021) |journal=Engineering Studies |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=6–7 |doi=10.1080/19378629.2021.1893915 |s2cid=233815633 |issn=1937-8629|doi-access=free }}
==Books==
- {{Cite book |last=Godin |first=Benoit |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1152021488 |title=The idea of technological innovation : a brief alternative history |date=2020 |others=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-83910-400-8 |location=Cheltenham |oclc=1152021488}}
- (As editor with Dominique Vinck) Critical Studies of Innovation: Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias.{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Logan D. A. |date=2020-06-01 |title='From Blindness to Light': A Review of Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck (eds.), Critical Studies of Innovation: Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-020-09402-9 |journal=Minerva |language=en |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=309–314 |doi=10.1007/s11024-020-09402-9 |s2cid=254841809 |issn=1573-1871|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite book |last=Godin |first=Benoit |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1125747489 |title=The invention of technological innovation : languages, discourses and ideology in historical perspective |date=2019 |others=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-78990-334-8 |location=Cheltenham, UK |oclc=1125747489}}
- {{Cite book |last=Godin |first=Benoit |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/990341355 |title=Models of innovation : the history of an idea |date=2017 |isbn=978-0-262-33880-6 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |oclc=990341355}}
- {{Cite book |last=Godin |first=Benoit |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903958473 |title=Innovation contested : the idea of innovation over the centuries |date=2015 |isbn=978-1-315-85560-8 |location=New York, New York |oclc=903958473}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Bowker |first=Geoffrey C. |date=2007-06-01 |title=Benoît Godin: Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology: 1920 to the Present. |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/521473 |journal=Isis |volume=98 |issue=2 |pages=403–404 |doi=10.1086/521473 |issn=0021-1753|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Bowker |first=Geoffrey C. |date=2007-06-01 |title=Benoît Godin: Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology: 1920 to the Present. |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/521473 |journal=Isis |volume=98 |issue=2 |pages=403–404 |doi=10.1086/521473 |issn=0021-1753|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1285169135 |title=Handbook on alternative theories of innovation |date=2021 |others=Benoît. Godin, Gérald Gaglio, Dominique Vinck |isbn=978-1-78990-230-3 |location=Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |oclc=1285169135}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://inrs.ca/en/research/professors/benoit-godin/ Page of Benoît Godin at INRS]
- Page of [http://www.csiic.ca/en/the-idea-of-innovation/ The Idea of Innovation], A project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
- [http://www.casti.org/ CASTI Network], Conceptual Approaches to Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Interdisciplinary Research Network.
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Category:Sociologists of science
Category:Science and technology studies scholars
Category:Social constructionism
Category:Sociology of scientific knowledge
Category:21st-century Canadian philosophers
Category:Canadian philosophers of science