Introduction
What is new? The ancient Greek had two words for “new”. First, they used neos to address phenomena that were youthful, recent, and young. Second, they had kainos to address phenomena that were newfangled, and strange. While both express “newness”, they have a profoundly different meaning. In between there was a third notion, that of “new” in the sense of other, next, diverse, implying “the same” rather than “new”, expressed by heteros, allos, and polla (see Fig. 1). D’Angour (2011) explains the crucial differences between them (and their derivatives): While neos stands for a kind of novelty that did not exist until recently and is therefore “new in time” (temporal), kainosdepicts a novelty that is “brand-new” (evaluative) and...
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König, M. (2017). Innovations in Business Administration. In: Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6616-1_200038-1
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