An Anthropological View of Economic Innovation

This article examines on the foundations of innovation in economic and business theory. After a brief review of the main problems that economic theory faces in its attempt to fit innovation into its mechanical and biologist models, the need for a more robust epistemology and anthropology comes to light for understanding the practical character of human action and its free and social nature. To this end, we undertake an anthropological approach to quintessentially human manifestations - language and working order to recover the meaning of innovation and overcome its tension with tradition, which is an expression of the struggle that occurs between nature and history when using a reductive theory of knowledge and a false anthropology.