Beyond Innovation: Technology, Institution and Change as Categories for Social Analysis

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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