Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation /
Nowotny, Helga.
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,
2006.
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany, in April 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index.
The quest for innovation and cultures of technology / Helga Nowotny -- Culture and innovation / Thomas P. Hughes -- The unintended consequences of innovation : change and community at MIT / Rosalind WIlliams -- The vulnerability of technological culture / Wiebe E. Bijker -- Culture of gender, and culture of technology : the gendering of things in France's office spaces between 1890 and 1930 / Delphine Gardey -- Suspending gender? Reflecting on innovations in cyberspace / Judy Wajcman -- Innovation, diverse knowledges, and the presumed singularity of science / John V. Pickstone -- Scientists on the battlefield : cultures and conflicts / Jean-Jacques Salomon -- From prophecies of the future to incarnations of the past : cultures of nuclear technology / Patrick Kupper -- The mining industry in traditional China : intra- and intercultural comparisons / Hans Ulrich Vogel -- Interdisciplinarity and the innovation process : how to organize spaces of translation, or, the politics of innovation / Joachim Nettelbeck.
Technological innovations
Social history