Enabling innovation : a practical guide to understanding and fostering technological change / Boru Douthwaite
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- 1655551
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- Author:
- Douthwaite, M. B
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- London ; New York : Zed Books, 2002
- xvi, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1856499715
- 1856499723
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- Machine derived contents note: List of figures, tables and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Niels Roling
- Introduction:Why innovation approaches matter
- 2 The palaeontology of innovation: Lessons on success
- and failure from the paddy fields of Asia
- The flash dryer in the Philippines 20
- The flatbed dryer in Vietnam 29
- What happens when a technology is first adopted 36
- Conclusions 42
- 3 Seeing inside the black box: Modelling early adoption
- (with Darwin's help)
- Searching for a good mental map 44
- Learning selection - analogue to natural selection 47
- Opening up the black box 48
- Conclusions 64
- 4 Blowing in the wind: How'bottom-up' beat'top-down'
- for the billion-dollar wind turbine industry
- Early history 70
- The Danish experience 71
- The American experience 92
- Conclusions 104
- 5 Open and closed: Linux versus Windows
- Linux: open-source innovation 106
- Windows NT: closed-source innovation 119
- Conclusions 128
- 6 Uncreative accounting: Local Exchange Trading Systems
- A brief history of money 131
- Alternative currencies 136
- Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) 140
- Conclusions 162
- 7 Food for thought:Aftermath of the Green Revolution
- The Green Revolution: buying time 166
- Biotechnology: Big Science's technical fix? 190
- Participatory plant breeding: a sustainable solution? 204
- Conclusions 212
- 8 How to catalyse innovation:A practical guide to learning
- selection
- The learning selection approach to understanding and
- catalysing technological change 218
- Advantages of the learning selection approach 220
- To the users 223
- When does the learning selection approach work? 226
- The scope of learning selection 227
- How to launch a learning selection innovation process 228
- Intellectual property rights and learning selection 233
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-256) and index.
- Subject:
- Technological innovations
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