The present essay pursues to connect the concepts of instinct, habits, instinct of workmanship and idle curiosity, all of them researched by Thorsten Veblen, with the Theory of Economic Progress, from Clarence E. Ayres, both economists considered founding fathers of the Institutionalism in Economics, to aim to the beginning of a definition process for a theoretical framework to support a future doctoral thesis in the  Innovation aspects. We believe that the Institutionalism, as an economic thought, represents a solid conceptual framework to deeply explore the development of Innovation