ABSTRACT
Innovation, a notion highly associated with the imagination, is also a theme that connects well with such things as adventure, discovery and a certain degree of risk taking. For John Stuart Mill, ‘The father of English innovation, both in doctrine and institution, is Bentham: he is the great subversive, or, in the language of continental philosophers, the great critical thinker of his age and country’ [emphasis in original] (1950, 4).
