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In this chapter by Celiane Camargo-Borges and Sheila McNamee, the metaphor of research as innovation is explored. The authors examine the role of creativity and imagination in the process of inquiry. Researchers move away from the logic of either/or and navigate toward a spectrum of opportunities, not thinking in oppositions or polarities, but embracing ambiguity, uncertainty, possibility, and multiplicity. As a consequence of acknowledging research as a process of social transformation, the results of research move the researcher and participants toward an unfolding and newly constructed future. The authors offer illustrations of research approaches/practices that invite innovation by embracing relationality and participation. They focus on practices that have gained broad acceptance over the past few decades: Imagineering, Arts-Based research, and Appreciative Inquiry.