Dynamics of innovation : the expansion of technology in modern times /
By: Caron, François
Title By: Mitchell, Allan [Translator]
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, c2013.Description: xvii, 254 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780857457233 (hbk : alk. paper)Subject(s): Technological innovations -- Europe -- History | Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- History | Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- History | Technological innovations -- History | Knowledge, Theory of -- HistoryDDC classification: 338/.064 Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 338.064 CA DY (Browse shelf) | Available | T0049347 |
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338.040973 RE AL The real problem solvers : | 338.06 FR EC The economics of industrial innovation | 338.064 BR SM Smaller faster lighter denser cheaper : | 338.064 CA DY Dynamics of innovation : | 338.064 DO IN Innovation : | 338.064 IN NO Innovation in low-tech firms and industries / | 338.064 IN NO Innovation, economic growth and the firm : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Best known as the leading historian of French railways, François Caron has also done significant work on topics as varied as electricity, water and steam power, the theory of innovation, the structure of enterprise, and other aspects of economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this volume, he brings together these different facets of his expertise in order to present a broad panorama of modern technology. Caron shows how artisanal know-how was adapted, expanded, and formalized during the three industrial revolutions that swept over Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States in a comprehensive analysis of this long, complex, and continuous historical process, leading up to the twenty-first century. Thus, he illustrates the increasingly fruitful interaction between technological and scientific knowledge in modern times.