Emotional Drivers of Innovation: Exploring the Moral Economy of Prototypes - Paperback

by Franziska Sörgel (Author)

Innovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sörgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process. Instead of assuming that the innovation process is subject to rational and linear creativity, the study adopts the notion of >moral economies

Author Biography

Franziska Sörgel is a Post-Doc at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The cultural anthropologist received her doctorate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2023. Her research focuses on anthropological perspectives of emotional evaluation and decision-making and alternative forms of impact assessment.