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

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Innovation Monomania

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 1-10
  3. Technology, Institution and Change

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 11-26
  4. Market Institutions

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 27-36
  5. Evolutionary Economics

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 37-40
  6. Performativity

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 41-46
  7. Knowledge

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 47-56
  8. Agency

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 57-66
  9. Clusters, Systems and Blocks

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 67-76
  10. Resistance to Change

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 77-87
  11. Commons

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 88-92
  12. Technological Determinism

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 93-101
  13. Modernity and Its Critics

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 102-110
  14. Postmodernity

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 111-118
  15. Hybridity and Technology Transfer

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 119-127
  16. Conclusions

    • Thomas Kaiserfeld
    Pages 128-134
  17. Back Matter

    Pages 135-164

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lund University, Sweden

    Thomas Kaiserfeld

About the author

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.

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