LEADER 04111nam 22004573 450 001 996599568203316 005 20240406163848.0 010 $a1-5292-3121-3 024 7 $a10.56687/9781529231212 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31001890 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31001890 035 $a(NjHacI)9930315109000041 035 $a(CKB)30315109000041 035 $a(DE-B1597)652309 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781529231212 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930315109000041 100 $a20240209d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aObserving dark innovation $eafter neoliberal tools and techniques /$fRyan T. MacNeil 210 1$aBristol :$cBristol University Press,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (193 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: T. MacNeil, Ryan Observing Dark Innovation Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2024 9781529231199 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aFront Cover -- Observing Dark Innovation: After Neoliberal Tools and Techniques -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Dark Innovation -- The challenge -- Problematization -- Instrumentalities -- Overview of methods and chapters -- 2 Extant Theory -- Instrumental innovation models -- 'Linear' developments -- 'Pushmi-pullyu' devices -- 'Chain-linked' processes -- Changing lenses -- Focusing on 'systems' -- Neoliberal instruments -- Models as instruments -- Instrumental neoliberalism -- Instrumentality innovation -- 3 Historiographic Context -- History? -- Rhetorical history -- History as background -- ANTi-History -- Three historical accounts -- Defined by the Sea -- 'One of the three biggest' -- 'Internationally important' -- Context? -- Interessement -- Elision -- Cutting science -- Practising context -- 4 Narrative Politics -- Narrative devices -- Narrative neoliberalization -- Restorying analysis -- My narrative approach -- Three short stories -- Naval research in Halifax, 1940-70 -- Dalhousie University's Department of Oceanography, 1949-74 -- The Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1962-92 -- Narrative implications -- Characterization -- Public agents -- Private quartermasters -- Plot -- 5 Taxonomic Classification -- The taxonomic puzzle -- Pavitt's taxonomy -- Government as wastebasket taxon -- The dragons of mare incognitum -- Industrial parataxonomy -- The organism metaphor -- Organizations as organisms -- 'Inherited' characteristics -- Innovative agency -- Functional (dis)unity -- Hybridity -- Symbiosis -- Away from biological metaphors -- Moving beyond speciation -- Towards other classification tools -- 6 Surveying Topologies -- Regional networks -- Innovation system boundaries -- Testing regional boundaries -- Mapping the system -- Topological alternatives -- Regions -- Networks -- Fluids -- Fire -- Other topological metaphors -- 7 Sisyphean Statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Results -- Significance? -- Locus of innovation -- Results -- Linearity? -- Chain links -- Results -- Triviality? -- System dynamics -- Results -- Attack! -- Significant but meaningless -- 8 After Observation -- Entanglements -- Instrumentalities -- Absences -- Tools -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- References -- Index. 330 $aWhy does scholarship on innovation tend to fixate on particular classes of technology while neglecting others? This book shows how common methodological tools and techniques of innovation carry neoliberal market biases that dominate the field. It is a resounding call for critical scholars to rethink the organisation of the discipline. 606 $aTechnological innovations$xPhilosophy 615 0$aTechnological innovations$xPhilosophy. 676 $a658.4038 700 $aMacNeil$b Ryan T.$01739100 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996599568203316 996 $aObserving dark innovation$94162960 997 $aUNISA