“…(Bourdieu, 1987;Tilly, 1998;Fragkandreas, 2012;Dorling, 2019), as well as being shaped by various (multi-scalar) factors and forces, such as education, gender, race, international trade, immigration, declining union membership and minimum wages, financialization, unequal organizational structures, neoliberal policies, and welfare state retrenchment (Neckerman and Torche, 2007;DiPrete, 2007;Lemieux, 2008;Donegan and Lowe, 2008;Piketty, 2014;Tomaskovic-Devey, 2014;Stockhammer, 2017;Cavanaugh and Breau, 2018;Munir, 2021). From these factors, however, it is innovation which, according to a growing number of contributions, constitutes one of the most significant causal determinants of rising inequality in contemporary societies (e.g., Fernandez, 2001;Acemoglu, 2002;Angelini et al, 2009;Cozzens and Kaplinsky, 2009;Van Reenen, 2011;Lazonick and Mazzucato, 2013;Lee, 2016;Pianta, 2018).…”