Lectures
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Lecture 2: (Un)Sustainable
- Lecture 3: Patterns of Development
- Lecture 4: Economic, Social and Political Structures
- Lecture 5: Technology Assessment & Measuring Sustainability
- Lecture 6: Technology and Society
- Lecture 7: Sustainable Enterprises
- Lecture 8: Sustainable Design
- Lecture 9: Innovation Processes
- Lecture 10: Technology for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development for Engineers
(WM0929)Lecture 9: Innovation Processes
Innovation Processes
9_OCW_-Innovation_processes.pdf This presentation builds on the themes of technology and society and takes them further into the dynamics of technological change. The lecture is divided in two parts: technology & society, discussing the social construction of technology and economic & technological change, which discusses economic determinism, the economic notion of technological change. Social constructivism and the SCOT-model (lecture 6) are further explained using the development of the bicycle as an example. In the second part on economy, technology push versus market pull as drivers of technological change are explained as well as the principles of evolutionary theory. |
Key-words: technological change, technological innovation, social constructivism, SCOT-model, economic determinism, evolutionary theory.
Reading: Chapter 9 of ‘Sustainable Development for Engineers’: Innovation processes.
