Science, Technology and Innovation Culture [Hardcover]

We are facing unprecedented challenges today. For many of us, innovation would be our last hope. But how can it be done? Is it enough to bet on the scientific culture? How can technical culture contribute to innovation? How is technical culture situated with regards to what we name collectively the culture of innovation? It is these questions that this book intends to address.

Introduction ix

Marianne CHOUTEAU, Joëlle FOREST and Céline NGUYEN

Chapter 1. A Brief History of European Technical Culture and Its Relationship with Innovation 1
Anne-Françoise GARÇON

1.1. Introduction 1

1.2. Technological development practices in the 16th Century 2

1.3. A new system of technology, but no innovation culture 3

1.4. But how did entrepreneurs achieve success before Schumpeter? 5

1.5. A “dashboard knowledge” culture to complement the operating cultures 7

1.6. When the “dashboard knowledge” culture becomes an innovation culture 10

1.7. Conclusion: what does the objectification of an innovation culture at the turn of the 19th–20th Century mean? 13

1.8. References 17

Chapter 2. When Innovation Culture Hides Technical Culture 21
Marianne CHOUTEAU, Joëlle FOREST and Céline NGUYEN

2.1. Introduction 21

2.2. Culture and technical culture 23

2.2.1. Culture or cultures? 23

2.2.2. Approaches to technical culture 25

2.3. Technical culture as we understand it 27

2.4. Why is technical cull#