Ideología e impacto social en los usos de la palabra innovación

Abstract

This text makes critical reference to the widespread use with which, in current and recent times, the concept of innovation is associated, which does not contemplate the diversity of situations and consequences inherent to the 
undirected use of the word. As a whole, innovations of all kinds, their uses and effective or possible applications, have had and continue to have a decisive impact on social behavior. This paper aims to critically evaluate aspects that lead to the emergence of the conception of technological innovation, driven by private companies whose leaders are labeled  “entrepreneurs”, as the main engine of the economic development of society as a vector of commercial profitability. The generalization of this conception translates, in practice, into one of the main pillars of an individualistic society in which the impulse for the common good loses consideration and incentive.