ISBN:
9781119549680
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Series Statement:
Innovation in engineering and technology set Volume 3
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Corporate culture-United States
;
Corporate culture-United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- I.1. Why this topic? -- I.2. Structure of the book -- I.3. References -- 1. A Brief History of European Technical Culture and Its Relationship with Innovation -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Technological development practices in the 16th Century -- 1.3. A new system of technology, but no innovation culture -- 1.4. But how did entrepreneurs achieve success before Schumpeter? -- 1.5. A "dashboard knowledge" culture to complement the operating cultures -- 1.6. When the "dashboard knowledge" culture becomes an innovation culture -- 1.7. Conclusion: what does the objectification of an innovation culture at the turn of the 19th-20th Century mean? -- 1.8. References -- 2. When Innovation Culture Hides Technical Culture -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Culture and technical culture -- 2.2.1. Culture or cultures? -- 2.2.2. Approaches to technical culture -- 2.3. Technical culture as we understand it -- 2.4. Why is technical culture still struggling to develop? -- 2.5. An innovation culture that acts as a barrier -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 2.7. References -- 3. Technical Culture and the Contemporary World -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Technology and innovation in the digital age -- 3.2.1. Innovation and control over the future -- 3.2.2. Technology, innovation and culture -- 3.3. An approach to innovation in progress -- 3.3.1. A variable focal analysis -- 3.3.2. Objects in their surroundings -- 3.4. Innovation and evolution of technical objects -- 3.4.1. An innovative approach, with small steps and big jumps -- 3.4.2. Families of objects to understand evolution -- 3.4.3. The laws of evolution -- 3.4.4. Innovation in human history -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. References -- 4. Industrialist and Inventor: Alfred Nobel's Dynamite Invention -- 4.1. Introduction.
Abstract:
4.2. Alfred Nobel: the chaotic journey of an obstinate entrepreneur, somewhere between chance and necessity? -- 4.2.1. The invention of dynamite by Nobel or the archetypeof serendipity? -- 4.2.2. Alfred Nobel between the company and the laboratory -- 4.3. The invention of dynamite: a well-anticipated chance -- 4.3.1. A favorable economic and institutional context -- 4.3.2. The invention of dynamite: chance and necessity -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 4.5. References -- 5. Thinking Creatively to Innovate: A Study of the Genesis of a Mathematical Breakthrough by Cédric Villani -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Emergence of innovations according to Cédric Villani -- 5.2.1. A conception of innovation, inherited from the conception of Henri Poincaré's mathematical invention -- 5.2.2. The seven ingredients of "innovation ideas" according to Cédric Villani -- 5.3. The strength of networks -- 5.3.1. A network of actors with varied knowledge -- 5.3.2. Contribution of the network of actors to the genesis of the theorem -- 5.4. Creative rationality: the forgotten ingredient -- 5.4.1. Creative rationality: what are we talking about? -- 5.4.2. Cédric Villani and creative rationality -- 5.5. Conclusion -- 5.6. References -- 6. Innovation Culture in Organizations -- 6.1. Introduction: recent developments in the concept of innovation -- 6.2. Innovation culture in organizations -- 6.2.1. Innovative leaders and managers -- 6.2.2. Presence of innovative teams -- 6.2.3. Presence of innovative individuals -- 6.2.4. Organizational context -- 6.2.5. Links to the environment outside the organization -- 6.2.6. The ETOILe model of innovation culture -- 6.3. Discussion -- 6.4. References -- 7. Technical Culture and Innovation Culture: Reconciling through Design -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Technical culture -- 7.3. The culture contained in the technical object -- 7.4. Innovation culture
Abstract:
7.4.1. Training designers to generate technical and social innovation -- 7.4.2. Innovation in technical education -- 7.5. The training and transmission of a technical culture -- 7.5.1. Innovation in the learner's role -- 7.5.2. From the technical object to the pedagogy of the project -- 7.5.3. The individual creator and designer of their project -- 7.6. Technical culture and knowledge creation -- 7.7. Conclusion -- 7.8. References -- 8. Cultural Anthropology, Animism, and Industrial Innovation Processes: The Case of the "Animal Language" Myth -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. A collective unconscious faced with a diversity of material objects and cultures -- 8.3. An immersive approach, a vehicle for decentering -- 8.4. The experience of the cabinet of curiosities where the experience of writing is renewed -- 8.4.1. The technology behind a new form of animism -- 8.4.2. From a "show company" to the staging of innovation -- 8.4.3. Orality and writing as creative drivers -- 8.5. Mini-mythologies of modernity that fit into current societal issues -- 8.6. When technique meets mythology towards a first approach of materialization of modernity stories -- 8.7. From an anthropological perspective to a corporate innovation culture -- 8.8. References -- Conclusion -- List of Authors -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management -- EULA
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