World Industrialization : Shared Inventions, Competitive Innovations, and Social Dynamics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vigezzi, Michel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2020.
Series:Innovation, entrepreneurship, management series. Smart innovation set ; v. 24.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1: Industrialization and its Conceptualizations; Introduction to Part 1; 1. The Notion of Industrialization and Other Related Notions; 1.1. The notion of industrialization; 1.1.1. The birth of the notion of industrialization; 1.1.2. Industrialization according to economists; 1.1.3. Industrialization according to management sciences; 1.1.4. Sociologies of technology and knowledge; 1.1.5. Industrialization according to technological historians; 1.1.6. The objectives of histories of technology
  • 1.1.7. The different histories of technology1.1.8. The synthesis of these contributions: continuity or discontinuity?; 1.2. The links between industrialization, technological revolutions and machinism; 1.2.1. Industrialization and industrial revolutions; 1.2.2. Industrialization and the various revolutions; 1.2.3. Industrialization and machinism; 2. Social Dynamics, Shared Inventions and Competitive Innovations; 2.1. Social dynamics; 2.1.1. The glorification of arts and crafts: from guilds to the arts and crafts communities; 2.1.2. The defense and glory of nations
  • 2.1.3. The links between technology, social relations and people at work2.2. Evolution of the notions of technological change, invention and innovation; 2.2.1. Technological changes and the temptation of symbols and representations; 2.2.2. The ambiguities of the notion of invention; 2.2.3. The enigmas of innovation; 2.2.4. The end of the technological change/invention/innovation triangle?; 2.3. Shared inventions; 2.3.1. From the sharing of inventions to shared inventions; 2.3.2. The first definitions of shared inventions; 2.3.3. A definition of shared inventions
  • 2.3.4. The trajectories of shared inventions2.4. Competitive innovations; 2.4.1. The first definitions of competitive innovations; 2.4.2. The competition principles adopted; 2.4.3. The trajectories of competitive innovations; PART 2: Historical Periods, Social Dynamics, Shared Inventions and Competitive Innovations; Introduction to Part 2; 3. 1698-1760 or the Emergence of Machinism; 3.1. The situation in 1698; 3.1.1. Major changes in social relations, religions and manufactories; 3.1.2. Manufactories and the organization of work in France and England
  • 3.1.3. New models of manufactory organization3.1.4. Performance of manufactories versus development of nations; 3.1.5. Statement of account; 3.2. 1698-1760: industrialization and major changes; 3.2.1. Conflicts between religions and the economy; 3.2.2. Conflicts between nations; 3.2.3. The willingness of governments to enact change in public affairs; 3.3. The precursors and inventions of steam engines; 3.3.1. The era of the Enlightenment and other imaginative inventors; 3.3.2. The appearance of the true inventors; 3.4. Steam engines and shared inventions