Innovation and Its Enemies

Why People Resist New Technologies
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-005160-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare. At the root of this tension is the perception that the benefits of new technologies will accrue only to small sections of society, while the risks will be more widely distributed.

Drawing from nearly 600 years of technology history, Calestous Juma identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order, and stability as one of today's biggest policy challenges. He reveals the extent to which modern technological controversies grow out of distrust in public and private institutions and shows how new technologies emerge, take root, and create new institutional ecologies that favor their establishment in the marketplace. Innovation and Its Enemies calls upon public leaders to work with scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to manage technological change and expand public engagement on scientific and technological matters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Juma, Calestous

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction

- 1. Gales of Creative Destruction

- 2. Brewing Trouble: Coffee

- 3. Stop the Presses: Printing the Koran

- 4. Smear Campaigns: Margarine

- 5. Gaining Traction: Farm Mechanization

- 6. Charged Arguments: Electricity

- 7. Cool Reception: Mechanical Refrigeration

- 8. Facing the Music: Recorded Sound

- 9. Taking Root: Transgenic Crops

- 10. Swimming against the Current: AquAdvantage Salmon

- 11. Oiling the Wheels of Novelty

- Notes

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Calestous Juma was Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. A national of Kenya, he was an internationally-recognized authority on the role of science, technology, and innovation in economic development.