Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Helga Nowotny.
• Other Names: Nowotny, Helga
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 221 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 338/.064; Technological innovations -- Congresses; Social history -- 1945- -- Congresses; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; HISTORY -- General; Social history; Technological innovations; Technischer Fortschritt; Kultur; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782389644; 1782389644
• Related ISBNs: 1845451163; 9781845451165; 1845451171; 9781845451172
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.