Beyond Innovation counter weighs the present innovation monomania by broadening our thinking about technological and institutional change. It is done by a multidisciplinary review of the most common ideas about the dynamics between technology and institutions.
Beyond Innovation counter weighs the present innovation monomania by broadening our thinking about technological and institutional change. It is done by a multidisciplinary review of the most common ideas about the dynamics between technology and institutions.
Thomas Kaiserfeld is Professor of History of Ideas and Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. He has been awarded the Robinson Prize by the Society for the History of Technology and the Rausing Prize by Lund University.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Innovation Monomania 2. Technology, institution and change 3. Market institutions 4. Evolutionary economics 5. Performativity 6. Knowledge 7. Agency 8. Clusters, systems and blocks 9. Resistance to change 10. Commons 11. Technological determinism 12. Modernity and its critics 13. Postmodernity 14. Hybridity and technology transfer 15. Conclusions
