Innovation is far too important to be left to scientists and
Freeman, 1974, The Economics of Industrial Innovation
technologists. It is also far too important to be left to
economists or social scientists
Two…themes have dominated the philosophy of technology. The first [is] the moral or ethical evaluation of technology, whilst the second focuses on the ways in which our lives are constrained, transformed or controlled by technology (theories of technological determinism and technological autonomy).
Lawson, 2017, Technology and Isolation, p. 3
Latest
Ding, 2024, The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise, in: Review of International Political Economy
Jenny Bulstrode, 2023, Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution, in: History and Technology
*Jason Resnikoff, 2022, The Myth of Black Obsolescence, in: International Labor and Working-Class History.
Ding, 2021, The Rise and Fall of Great Technologies and Powers (University of Oxford)
De la Torre, et al., 2020, Nuclear engineering and technology transfer: the Spanish strategies to deal with US, French and German nuclear manufacturers, 1955–1985, in: Business History. “[Referring to nuclear energy] Spain had managed to be competitive in engineering processes, perfecting systems to assimilate equipment and knowledge, on-site training of specialized personnel, development and improvement of safety, and operational maintenance of those facilities…[Yet] there was still a weakness [in Spanish expertise] in the manufacture of the steam generation system – the hard core of nuclear fission. The clearest proof of this technological ceiling is that a Spanish commercial reactor was never designed or manufactured. In other words, through the strategy followed by Spanish companies and government to deal with the U.S., French and German nuclear manufacturers, Spain managed to develop from the scratch the ‘ability to use’ but did not achieve the ‘ability to produce technology’. However, at least the service engineering companies embarked on a path of internationalization and Spaniards occupied positions of responsibility in the multilateral nuclear organisms.”
2010-2020
DeVries and Zimmerman, 2019, Is military technology deterministic?, in: Vulcan: The Journal of the History of Military Technology
Pirtle and Moore, 2019, Where does innovation come from?: Project Hindsight, TRACEs, and what structured case studies can say about innovation, in: IEEE Technology and Society
Godin, 2019, The Invention of Technological Innovation. Languages, Discourses and Ideology in Historical Perspectives
Godin, 2017, Models of Innovation
Lawson, 2017, Technology and Isolation
*Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, 2017, On ignored global ‘scientific revolutions, in: Journal of Early Modern History
Bigelow, 2016, Incorporating indigenous knowledge into extractive economies: the science of colonial silver, in: Society
Miller, 2015, The ‘relocation’ of technology between East and West: stationary steam engines and steamboats in India in the early nineteenth century, in: Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West (ed. Sundar Sarukkai)
*Solar and Rönnbäck, 2014, Copper sheathing and the British slave trade, in: Economic History Review
Godin, 2012, “Innovation Studies”: The Invention of a Specialty, Part 1 and 2
Godin, 2011, The linear model of innovation: Maurice Holland and the research cycle, in: Social Science Information
Edgerton, 2010, ‘Innovation, technology, or history: what is the historiography of technology about’, in: Technology and Culture
*Godin, 2010, Innovation Without the Word: William F. Ogburn’s Contribution to the Study of Technological Innovation, in: Minerva
Balconi, et al., 2010, In defence of the linear model: an essay, in: Research Policy
Fernando Echeverría Rey, 2010, Weapons, technological determinism, and ancient warfare, in: New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare
Elaine Tyler May, 2010, America and the Pill: a history of promise, peril, and liberation
2000-2010
*Lissa Roberts, 2009, Full steam ahead: entrepreneurial engineers as go-betweens during the late eighteenth century, in: The Brokered World: Go-betweens and Global intelligence, 1770-1820 (ed. Simon Schaffer). Challenges Joel Mokyr’s The Gifts of Athena by arguing against the premise of “the primacy of knowledge production over material production” and by de-centering Great Britain. The “winding path of innovation” was “tremendously congested”.
Kevin Binfield, 2009, Ned Ludd and laboring class autobiography, in: Romantic Autobiography in England. “The prospective conclusion, a dissolving of the eponym upon realization of the movement’s goals, was, like the figure of Ludd, illusory. In the end, the community of one Ned Ludd was an unsustainable fiction.”
Christine MacLeod, 2008, Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 (James Watt)
Leo Barron Hicks, 2008, The Cotton Chronicles: American Apartheid, Prisons, and the 21st Century Cotton Gin
Kevin Binfield (ed.), 2004, Writings of the Luddites
Platt, 2000, The alchemy of modernity: Alonso Barba’s copper cauldrons and the independence of Bolivian metallurgy (1790-1890), in: Journal of Latin American Studies
1990-2000
MacKenzie, 1998, Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change
Kirkpatrick Sale, 1995, Rebels Against the Future
Before 1990
MacKenzie, 1984, ‘Marx and the machine’, in: Technology and Culture
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, 1983, More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
*Jennifer Tann and M.J. Breckin, 1978, The international diffusion of the Watt engine, in: Economic History Review
Ackroyd, et al., 1977, The Technology of Political Control
Paul M. Sweezy, 1972, Cars and cities (“automobile-industrial complex”), in: Monthly Review
Hobsbawm, 1965, The machine breakers, in: Labouring Men: Studies in the History of Labour
Lynn White Jr., 1965, Medieval Technology and Social Change
Fumio Hozumi, 1956, Some notes on the Luddites, in: Kyoto University Economic Review. “The Luddites unaccompanied with acts of machine destruction, would be comparable to a canary without a song or a cavalryman without a horse…Will it be proper and adequate, however, to call these outbursts by the name of the Luddites? The only pertinent answer here would be to say that while the Luddites were machine destroyers, all the machine destroyers are not always the Luddites.”
Maclaurin, 1950, The process of technological innovation: the launching of a new scientific industry, in: American Economic Review
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