Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation
By: edited by Helga Nowotny.
Contributors: Nowotny, Helga.
Series: Making sense of history ;; v. 9
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Technological innovations -- Congresses; Social history -- 1945- -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: 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. This is the ninth volume in the 'Making Sense of History' series.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany, in April 2003.