Science, Technology and Innovation Culture

Marianne Chouteau, INSA Lyon Humanities Center.Joelle Forest, INSA Lyon Humanities Center.Céline Nguyen, INSA Lyon Humanities Center.

• Introduction ixMarianne CHOUTEAU, Joëlle FOREST and Céline NGUYENChapter 1. A Brief History of European Technical Culture and Its Relationship with Innovation 1Anne-Françoise GARÇON1.1. Introduction 11.2. Technological development practices in the 16th Century 21.3. A new system of technology, but no innovation culture 31.4. But how did entrepreneurs achieve success before Schumpeter? 51.5. A “dashboard knowledge” culture to complement the operating cultures 71.6. When the “dashboard knowledge” culture becomes an innovation culture 101.7. Conclusion: what does the objectification of an innovation culture at the turn of the 19th–20th Century mean? 131.8. References 17Chapter 2. When Innovation Culture Hides Technical Culture 21Marianne CHOUTEAU, Joëlle FOREST and Céline NGUYEN2.1. Introduction 212.2. Culture and technical culture 232.2.1. Culture or cultures? 232.2.2. Approaches to technical culture 252.3. Technical culture as we understand it 272.4. Why is technical culture still struggling to develop? 302.5. An innovation culture that acts as a barrier 322.6. Conclusion 362.7. References 37Chapter 3. Technical Culture and the Contemporary World 41Bruno JACOMY3.1. Introduction 413.2. Technology and innovation in the digital age 423.2.1. Innovation and control over the future 433.2.2. Technology, innovation and culture 443.3. An approach to innovation in progress 453.3.1. A variable focal analysis 453.3.2. Objects in their surroundings 483.4. Innovation and evolution of technical objects 503.4.1. An innovative approach, with small steps and big jumps 513.4.2. Families of objects to understand evolution 523.4.3. The laws of evolution 543.4.4. Innovation in human history 553.5. Conclusion 563.6. References 57Chapter 4. Industrialist and Inventor: Alfred Nobel’s Dynamite Invention 61Sophie BOUTILLIER4.1. Introduction 614.2. Alfred Nobel: the chaotic journey of an obstinate entrepreneur, somewhere between chance and necessity? 634.2.1. The invention of dynamite by Nobel or the archetype of serendipity? 634.2.2. Alfred Nobel between the company and the laboratory 654.3. The invention of dynamite: a well-anticipated chance 704.3.1. A favorable economic and institutional context 704.3.2. The invention of dynamite: chance and necessity 734.4. Conclusion 764.5. References 77Chapter 5. Thinking Creatively to Innovate: A Study of the Genesis of a Mathematical Breakthrough by Cédric Villani 81Joëlle FOREST, Marie-Line GARDES and Danièle VIAL5.1. Introduction 815.2. Emergence of innovations according to Cédric Villani 845.2.1. A conception of innovation, inherited from the conception of Henri Poincaré’s mathematical invention 845.2.2. The seven ingredients of “innovation ideas” according to Cédric Villani 875.3. The strength of networks 915.3.1. A network of actors with varied knowledge 915.3.2. Contribution of the network of actors to the genesis of the theorem 935.4. Creative rationality: the forgotten ingredient 955.4.1. Creative rationality: what are we talking about? 955.4.2. Cédric Villani and creative rationality 965.5. Conclusion 975.6. References 98Chapter 6. Innovation Culture in Organizations 101Muriel DAVIES and Stéphanie BUISINE6.1. Introduction: recent developments in the concept of innovation 1016.2. Innovation culture in organizations 1036.2.1. Innovative leaders and managers 1036.2.2. Presence of innovative teams 1046.2.3. Presence of innovative individuals 1056.2.4. Organizational context 1056.2.5. Links to the environment outside the organization 1086.2.6. The ETOILe model of innovation culture 1096.3. Discussion 1106.4. References 112Chapter 7. Technical Culture and Innovation Culture: Reconciling through Design 117John DIDIER7.1. Introduction 1177.2. Technical culture 1187.3. The culture contained in the technical object 1197.4. Innovation culture 1207.4.1. Training designers to generate technical and social innovation 1237.4.2. Innovation in technical education 1257.5. The training and transmission of a technical culture 1267.5.1. Innovation in the learner’s role 1277.5.2. From the technical object to the pedagogy of the project 1287.5.3. The individual creator and designer of their project 1297.6. Technical culture and knowledge creation 1307.7. Conclusion 1357.8. References 135Chapter 8. Cultural Anthropology, Animism, and Industrial Innovation Processes: The Case of the “Animal Language” Myth 139Fanny PARISE8.1. Introduction 1398.2. A collective unconscious faced with a diversity of material objects and cultures 1408.3. An immersive approach, a vehicle for decentering 1428.4. The experience of the cabinet of curiosities where the experience of writing is renewed 1448.4.1. The technology behind a new form of animism 1448.4.2. From a “show company” to the staging of innovation 1458.4.3. Orality and writing as creative drivers 1468.5. Mini-mythologies of modernity that fit into current societal issues 1488.6. When technique meets mythology towards a first approach of materialization of modernity stories 1518.7. From an anthropological perspective to a corporate innovation culture 1538.8. References 154Conclusion 161Marianne CHOUTEAU, Joëlle FOREST and Céline NGUYENList of Authors 165Index 167