A request via Michelle Brook on Twitter: what has been written about the relationship – in the context of large scale infrastructure – between standards/interoperability and innovation? A quick search via Google Scholar revealed a few papers, mainly about communications networks. Other than that, all I could think of was Pierre-Richard Agenor’s [amazon_link id=”0691155801″ target=”_blank” ]Public Capital, Growth and Welfare[/amazon_link]. Oh, and also business history case studies such as Bernard Carlson’s terrific [amazon_link id=”0691165610″ target=”_blank” ]Tesla[/amazon_link] biography, Jon Gernter’s [amazon_link id=”1594203288″ target=”_blank” ]The Idea Factory[/amazon_link], or maybe [amazon_link id=”0787971545″ target=”_blank” ]Fast Second[/amazon_link] by Geroski and Markides. But if others have other suggestions, please do add them – or let Michelle, @MLBrook, know.
[amazon_image id=”0691155801″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Public Capital, Growth and Welfare: Analytical Foundations for Public Policy[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0691165610″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”1594203288″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0787971545″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership)[/amazon_image]
I would add:
– Where the wizards stay up late: the history of internet http://www.amazon.fr/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674
– Dealers of Lightening: The history of Xerox Parc that came up with Laser printers, Ethernet, Modern Computers, etc .. http://www.amazon.fr/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895
– The Big Roads (history of the highway system in the US) http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Roads-Trailblazers-Superhighways/dp/0547907249
– The Box (that you recommended) about containers
– From the American System to Mass Production (1800-1932) http://www.amazon.fr/dp/080183158X/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=36S0HDLB9D3AZ&coliid=I10B5PVLIGOB79
I hope they are relevant.
Ayoub
Great suggestions, thank you
I’d add Wiebe Bijker, “Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: toward a theory of sociotechnical change.”
https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/bicycles-bakelites-and-bulbs
And indeed the social construction school more generally: Frank Geels, Johan Schot etc:
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=fac-fgw-rp2002&site=25
Ah I don’t know those – thanks Andrew!