Cultures Of Technology And The Quest For Innovation
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Author | : Helga Nowotny |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782389644 |
Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatiable demand for novelty coincides with the rise of modern science and the onset of modernity in Western societies. Never before has the Baconian dream been so close to becoming reality: wrapped into a globalizing capitalism that seeks ever expanding markets for new products, artifacts and designs and new processes that lead to gains in efficiency, productivity and profit. However, approaching these developments through a wider historical and cultural perspectives, means to raise questions about the plurality of cultures, the interaction between "hardware" and "software" and about the nature of the interfaces where technology meets with economic, social, legal, historical constraints and opportunities. The authors come to the conclusion that inside a seemingly homogenous package and a seemingly universal quest for innovation many differences remain.
Author | : Helga Nowotny |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781845451165 |
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany, in April 2003.
Author | : Arnold Pacey |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1985-09-10 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780262660563 |
The Culture of Technology examines our often conflicting attitudes toward nuclear weapons, biological technologies, pollution, Third World development, automation, social medicine, and industrial decline. It disputes the common idea that technology is "value-free" and shows that its development and use are conditioned by many factors-political and cultural as well as economic and scientific. Many examples from a variety of cultures are presented. These range from the impact of snowmobiles in North America to the use of water pumps in rural India, and from homemade toys in Africa to electricity generation in Britain-all showing how the complex interaction of many influences in every community affects technological practice. Arnold Pacey, who lives near Oxford, England, has a degree in physics and has lectured on both the history of technology and technology policy, with a particular focus on the development of technologies appropriate to Third World needs. He is the author of The Maze of Ingenuity (MIT Press paperback).
Author | : Marianne Chouteau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9781119549666 |
Author | : Richard P. Appelbaum |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0745689604 |
China is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge. This up-to-date analysis evaluates China's state-led approach to science and technology, and its successes and failures. In recent decades, China has seen huge investments in high-tech science parks, a surge in home-grown top-ranked global companies, and a significant increase in scientific publications and patents. Helped by state policies and a flexible business culture, the country has been able to leapfrog its way to a more globally competitive position. However, the authors argue that this approach might not yield the same level of progress going forward if China does not address serious institutional, organizational, and cultural obstacles. While not impossible, this task may well prove to be more difficult for the Chinese Communist Party than the challenges that China has faced in the past.
Author | : Thomas Kaiserfeld |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2015-07-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 113754712X |
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.
Author | : John M. Ziman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2003-09-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521542173 |
Ground-breaking yet non-technical analysis of the analogy that technological artefacts 'evolve' like biological organisms.
Author | : Anne Balsamo |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-07-19 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0822344459 |
The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.
Author | : Godin, BenoƮt |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1789902304 |
This insightful Handbook scrutinizes alternative concepts and approaches to the dominant economic or industrial theories of innovation. Providing an assessment of these alternatives, it questions the absence of these neglected types of innovation and suggests diverse theories.
Author | : Andrew Jamison |
Publisher | : Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1608457370 |
They show how social and cultural movements, from the Renaissance of the late 15th century to the environmental and global justice movements of our time, have provided contexts, or sites, for mixing scientific knowledge and technical skills from different fields and social domains into new combinations, thus fostering what the authors term a "hybrid imagination." Such a hybrid imagination is especially important today, as a way to counter the competitive and commercial "hubris" that is so much taken for granted in contemporary science and engineering discourses and practices with a sense of cooperation and social responsibility. The book portrays the history of science and technology as an underlying tension between hubris - literally the ambition to "play god" on the part of many a scientist and engineer and neglect the consequences - and a hybrid imagination, connecting scientific "facts" and technological "artifacts" with cultural understanding.^