Benoît Godin was a Canadian political scientist and sociologist.
[2] After a first degree at the Université Laval (1984) in Québec (CA), he obtained a PhD at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) the University of Sussex (UK) in 1994).
From February 1993 until his death he was professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique INRS, Québec (CA).
[1] The work of Benoît Godin covers both the history of quantification and that of innovation.
In the last years of his life he focused on the intellectual history of innovation, noting how the ‘superlative’ connotation of the term innovation is recent, in relative terms, as it had a rather negative connotation until the late 1960s or early 1970s.