“Innovation” has become a pertinent and frequently used term in relation to public-sector administration and planning. This article is a review of the planning theory debate from the 1960s until today focusing on the definitions, understandings, and uses of the innovation. We seek to answer the following three questions regarding the use of the overlapping terms “innovate,” “innovative,” and “innovation” in planning theory texts: (i) To what extent have they been used? (ii) In what sense and to what purpose? and (iii) Are we heading for a third position (“innovate”) in planning theory, such that “communicate,” “calculate,” and “innovate” are three interplaying approaches?

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计算、沟通和创新：我们需要将“创新”作为第三位吗？

“创新”已成为与公共部门管理和规划相关的一个相关且经常使用的术语。本文回顾了 1960 年代至今的规划理论辩论，重点关注创新的定义、理解和使用。我们试图回答以下三个关于在规划理论文本中使用重叠术语“创新”、“创新”和“创新”的问题：（i）它们被使用到什么程度？(ii) 在什么意义上，为了什么目的？(iii) 我们是否正走向规划理论的第三个位置（“创新”），例如“沟通”、“计算”和“创新”是三种相互作用的方法？