Science, Technology and Innovation Culture

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Introduction
   1. I.1. Why this topic?
   2. I.2. Structure of the book
   3. I.3. References
3. 1 A Brief History of European Technical Culture and Its Relationship with Innovation
   1. 1.1. Introduction
   2. 1.2. Technological development practices in the 16th Century
   3. 1.3. A new system of technology, but no innovation culture
   4. 1.4. But how did entrepreneurs achieve success before Schumpeter?
   5. 1.5. A “dashboard knowledge” culture to complement the operating cultures
   6. 1.6. When the “dashboard knowledge” culture becomes an innovation culture
   7. 1.7. Conclusion: what does the objectification of an innovation culture at the turn of the 19th–20th Century mean?
   8. 1.8. References
4. 2 When Innovation Culture Hides Technical Culture
   1. 2.1. Introduction
   2. 2.2. Culture and technical culture
   3. 2.3. Technical culture as we understand it
   4. 2.4. Why is technical culture still struggling to develop?
   5. 2.5. An innovation culture that acts as a barrier
   6. 2.6. Conclusion
   7. 2.7. References
5. 3 Technical Culture and the Contemporary World
   1. 3.1. Introduction
   2. 3.2. Technology and innovation in the digital age
   3. 3.3. An approach to innovation in progress
   4. 3.4. Innovation and evolution of technical objects
   5. 3.5. Conclusion
   6. 3.6. References
6. 4 Industrialist and Inventor: Alfred Nobel’s Dynamite Invention
   1. 4.1. Introduction
   2. 4.2. Alfred Nobel: the chaotic journey of an obstinate entrepreneur, somewhere between chance and necessity?
   3. 4.3. The invention of dynamite: a well-anticipated chance
   4. 4.4. Conclusion
   5. 4.5. References
7. 5 Thinking Creatively to Innovate: A Study of the Genesis of a Mathematical Breakthrough by Cédric Villani
   1. 5.1. Introduction
   2. 5.2. Emergence of innovations according to Cédric Villani
   3. 5.3. The strength of networks
   4. 5.4. Creative rationality: the forgotten ingredient
   5. 5.5. Conclusion
   6. 5.6. References
8. 6 Innovation Culture in Organizations
   1. 6.1. Introduction: recent developments in the concept of innovation
   2. 6.2. Innovation culture in organizations
   3. 6.3. Discussion
   4. 6.4. References
9. 7 Technical Culture and Innovation Culture: Reconciling through Design
   1. 7.1. Introduction
   2. 7.2. Technical culture
   3. 7.3. The culture contained in the technical object
   4. 7.4. Innovation culture
   5. 7.5. The training and transmission of a technical culture
   6. 7.6. Technical culture and knowledge creation
   7. 7.7. Conclusion
   8. 7.8. References
10. 8 Cultural Anthropology, Animism, and Industrial Innovation Processes: The Case of the “Animal Language” Myth
    1. 8.1. Introduction
    2. 8.2. A collective unconscious faced with a diversity of material objects and cultures
    3. 8.3. An immersive approach, a vehicle for decentering
    4. 8.4. The experience of the cabinet of curiosities where the experience of writing is renewed
    5. 8.5. Mini-mythologies of modernity that fit into current societal issues
    6. 8.6. When technique meets mythology towards a first approach of materialization of modernity stories
    7. 8.7. From an anthropological perspective to a corporate innovation culture
    8. 8.8. References
11. Conclusion
12. List of Authors
13. Index
14. End User License Agreement