2. The profound nature and complexity of the phenomenon of innovation

2.1 Innovation is primarily a matter of behavior.

There can be no innovation without innovative behavior, which is both an expression of difference and the ability to introduce it into social practice.

Before examining the extreme diversity that novelty can take in the phenomenon of innovation, it is essential to take this dimension of "introducing change" into account. It is often overlooked in a systemic approach to the innovation process, particularly in the French context, which is very specific at the international level.

There is a conflictual dimension to the very concept of innovation. The "quarrel between the ancients and the moderns" reappears at every major stage of social change. In the practice of the innovation process,...