Title: Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
Abstract: Preface Part I. Evolutionary Thinking: 1. Evolutionary models for technological change John Ziman 2. Biological evolution: processes and phenomena Eva Jablonka and John Ziman 3. Lamarckian inheritance systems in biology: a source of metaphors and models in technological evolution Eva Jablonka 4. Selectionism and complexity John Ziman 5. Evolutionary phenomena in technological change Joel Mokyr 6. Selection criteria and selection processes in cultural evolution theories Richard Nelson Part II. Innovation as a Cultural Practice: 7. Technological evolution and involution a preliminary comparison of Europe and Japan Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison 8. Stasis in complex artefacts Gerry Martin 9. Gothic tales of spandrels, hooks, and monsters: complexity, multiplicity and association in the explanation of technological change David Turnbull 10. Path dependence and varieties of learning in the evolution of technological practice Paul A. David Part III. Invention as a Process: 11. Invention and evolution: the case of Edison's sketches of the telephone W. Bernard Carlson 12. The evolution of adaptive form David Perkins 13. Real-world variation-selection in the volution of technological form: historical examples Walter G. Vincenti 14. Learning to be inventive: design, evaluation and selection in primary school technology Joan Solomon 15. Technological evolution as self-fulfilling prophecy Geoffrey Miller Part IV. Institutionalized Innovation: 16. Recursive practice and the evolution of technological knowledge Edward W. Constant II 17. The concept of 'design space' Rikard Stankiewicz 18. Artefact activity: the co-evolution of artefacts, knowledge and organization in technological innovation James Fleck 19. The organization of innovative enterprises Gerard Fairclough Part V. Technological Change in a Wider Perspective: 20. The evolution of war and technology Edward W. Constant II 21. Learning about technology in society: developing liberating literacy Janet Davies Burns 22. An end-word contributors Bibliography Index.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
Language: en
Type: book
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