摘要:This article shows as its scope the innovation in education, particularly in the field of political and educational management. It approaches innovation and its relation to the productive sector and the Science and Technology policy, in the context in which it is increasingly valued as a competitive generator of advantages for the market. The main purpose of this research is to distinguish two polarized typologies of innovation in education derived from antagonistic educational conceptions, the economistic and the emancipatory, and then, sketch the path to the elaboration of a criticalemancipatory educational innovation acceptation, deriving from the contributions of the Critical Theory.