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

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.

• 1. Innovation Monomania2. Technology, institution and change3. Market institutions4. Evolutionary economics5. Performativity6. Knowledge7. Agency8. Clusters, systems and blocks9. Resistance to change10. Commons11. Technological determinism12. Modernity and its critics13. Postmodernity14. Hybridity and technology transfer15. Conclusions

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