Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation

Helga Nowotny, who has a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna and a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University, New York, was Professor of Social Studies of Science at ETH Zurich since and Director of Collegium Helveticum. Currently she is Chair of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) of the European Commission and Director of the post-doctorate Branco Weiss Fellowship. She was Executive Director of the European Center in Vienna, which she founded, and for seven years Chairperson of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Quest for Innovation and Cultures of TechnologyHelga NowotnyPART I: ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATIONChapter 1. Culture and InnovationThomas P. HughesChapter 2. The Unintended Consequences of Innovation: Change and Community at MITRosalind WilliamsChapter 3. The Vulnerability of Technological CultureWiebe E. BijkerPART II: THE GENDER BIAS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONSChapter 4. Culture of Gender, and Culture of Technology: The Gendering of Things in France’s Office Spaces between 1890 and 1930Delphine GardeyChapter 5. Suspending Gender? Reflecting on Innovations in CyberspaceJudy WajcmanPART III: PLURALIST HISTORIES OF SCIENCE, INNOVATION, AND WARChapter 6. Innovation, Diverse Knowledges, and the Presumed Singularity of ScienceJohn V. PickstoneChapter 7. Scientists on the Battlefield: Cultures and ConflictsJean-Jacques SalomonPART IV: THE ADOPTION OF INNOVATIONS IN DIFFERENT CULTURAL CONTEXTSChapter 8. From Prophecies of the Future to Incarnations of the Past: Cultures of Nuclear TechnologyPatrick KupperChapter 9. The Mining Industry in Traditional China: Intraand Intercultural ComparisonsHans Ulrich VogelEpilogue: Interdisciplinarity and the Innovation Process How to Organize Spaces of Translation, or, the Politics of InnovationJoachim NettelbeckContributorsSelect BibliographyIndex

“…a book that is fundamental to the understanding of technologically developed societies… Innovation matters. Culture matters. And only an understanding of the links between culture and innovation can help us make sense of the world we are building.” • Technology and Culture