Innovation is filled with aspirations for solutions to problems, and for laying the groundwork for new technological and social breakthroughs. When a concept is so positively charged, the hopes expressed may create blindness to potential shortcomings and deadlocks. To disclose innovation blind spots, we approach innovation from a feminist viewpoint. We see innovation as a context that changes historically, and as revolution, offering alternative imaginaries of the relationship between race, gender and innovation. Our theoretical framework combines bell hooks (capitalist patriarchy and intersectionality), Mazzucato (the entrepreneurial state and the changing context of innovation) and Fraser (redistributive justice) and contributes with an understanding of innovation from the margin by unveiling its political dimensions. Hidden Figures, the 2016 biographical drama that follows three Black women working at NASA during the space race, provides the empirical setting of the paper. Our analysis contributes to emerging intersectionality research in management and organisation studies (MOS) by revealing the subject positions and dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in innovation discourses, and by proposing a radical – and more inclusive – rethinking of innovation. With this article, we aim to push the margins to the centre and invite others to discover the terrain of the margin(alised). We suggest that our feminist framework is appropriate to study other organisational phenomena, over time and across contexts, to bring forward the plurality of women’s experiences at work and in organisations.

创新充满了解决问题的渴望，并为新的技术和社会突破奠定基础。当一个概念如此积极时，所表达的希望可能会导致对潜在缺点和僵局视而不见。为了揭示创新盲点，我们从女性主义的角度看待创新。我们将创新视为一种历史性变化的背景和革命，为种族、性别和创新之间的关系提供了另一种想象。我们的理论框架结合了 bell hooks（资本主义父权制和交叉性）、Mazzucato（创业状态和不断变化的创新背景）和 Fraser（再分配正义），并通过揭示创新的政治维度从边缘理解创新。Hidden Figures是 2016 年的传记剧，讲述了太空竞赛期间在 NASA 工作的三位黑人女性的故事，提供了本文的实证背景。我们的分析通过揭示创新话语中包容/排斥的主题位置和动态，并提出对创新的激进和更具包容性的重新思考，为管理和组织研究 (MOS) 中新兴的交叉性研究做出了贡献。在这篇文章中，我们的目标是将边缘推到中心，并邀请其他人发现边缘的地形（alised）。我们建议我们的女权主义框架适用于研究其他组织现象，随着时间的推移和跨背景，以提出女性在工作和组织中的多元化经验。