Observing dark innovation : after neoliberal tools and techniques / / Ryan T. MacNeil

• Autore: MacNeil Ryan T.
• Pubblicazione: Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 pages)
• Disciplina: 658.4038
• Soggetto topico: Technological innovations - Philosophy
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Observing dark innovation
• ISBN: 1-5292-3121-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996599568203316
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