Networks of Innovation

Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet

Ilkka Tuomi

252 pages, parution le 12/12/2002

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Résumé

Integrating concepts from multiple theoretical disciplines and detailed analyses of the evolution of Internet-related innovations (including computer networking, the World Wide Web and the Linux open source operating system), this book develops foundations for a new theoretical and practical understanding of innovation. It covers topics ranging from fashion to history of art, and includes the most detailed analysis of the open source development model so far published.
Readership: Academics, graduate students, and the general reader interested in innovation, knowledge management, new organizational forms, history of technology, open source phenomenon, Linux, sociology of innovation, and research policy.

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Innovation as Multifocal Development of Social Practice
3 Inventing the Web
4 Making of the Internet
5 Analysis of the Early Phase of Internet Development
6 Socio-cognitive Spaces of Innovation and Meaning Creation
7 Breaking through a Technological Frame
8 Combination and Specialization in the Evolution of the Internet
9 Retrospection and Attribution in the History of Arpanet and Internet
10 Learning from Linux
11 Concluding Remarks

L'auteur - Ilkka Tuomi

Visiting Scientist at the European Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Ilkka Tuomi
Parution	12/12/2002
Nb. de pages	252
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	520g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199256983
ISBN13	978-0-19-925698-3