Technological Change
01 Dec 2002 14:07Origins of innovations. Spread of innovations. Conditions for their success. Conditions leading to technological decline. Conditions leading to technological stagnation. Fixing the directions of technological progress. Origins of systematic research and development. Economics of R&D. Psychology of engineering design and technological creativity. Relations to other sorts of design.
- To Read:
- Philippe Aghion, Nick Bloom, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt, "Competition and Innovation: An Inverted-U Relationship", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (2005): 701--728
- Wiebe E. Bijker, Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Towards a Theory of Sociotechnical Change
- Branscomb and Auerswald, Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks
- Louis Bucciarelli, Designing Engineers
- W. Bernard Carlson, Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Eletric, 1870--1900
- Subrata Dasgupta, Technology and Creativity
- Dym, Engineering Design
- Jon Elster, Explaining Technical Change
- An Engineer in the Garden of Eden
- Hill, The Science of Engineering Design
- Petroski
- Evolution of Useful Things
- Invention by Design
- Pool, Beyond Engineering
- Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics
- Peter Rowe, Design Thinking
- Namatié Traoré, "Networks and Rapid Technological Change: Novel Evidence from the Canadian Biotech Industry", Industry and Innovation 13 (2006): 41--68
- Thomas Woodson, Introduction to Engineering Design
