Beyond innovation : technology, institution and change as categories for social analysis /

Today's western society is obsessed with change, and more specifically technological change. Innovation is a buzzword in a number of policy areas including research policy, economic policy, and environmental policy. Beyond Innovation counter weighs this present innovation monomania by broadenin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kaiserfeld, Thomas, 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:	Technological innovations > Social aspects. Social institutions. Social change.

Table of Contents:

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.