Technological Change

Origins of innovations. Spread of innovations. Conditions for their success. Conditions leading to technological decline. Conditions leading to technological stagnation. Fixing the directions of technological progress. Origins of systematic research and development. Economics of R&D. Psychology of engineering design and technological creativity. Relations to other sorts of design.

Philippe Aghion, Nick Bloom, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt, "Competition and Innovation: An Inverted-U Relationship", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (2005): 701--728
Wiebe E. Bijker, Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Towards a Theory of Sociotechnical Change
Branscomb and Auerswald, Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks
Louis Bucciarelli, Designing Engineers
W. Bernard Carlson, Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Eletric, 1870--1900
Subrata Dasgupta, Technology and Creativity
Dym, Engineering Design
Jon Elster, Explaining Technical Change
An Engineer in the Garden of Eden
Hill, The Science of Engineering Design
Petroski
- Evolution of Useful Things
- Invention by Design
Pool, Beyond Engineering
Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics
Peter Rowe, Design Thinking
Namatié Traoré, "Networks and Rapid Technological Change: Novel Evidence from the Canadian Biotech Industry", Industry and Innovation 13 (2006): 41--68
Thomas Woodson, Introduction to Engineering Design

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Technological Change