Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany, in April 2003.

Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is

Beyond Innovation counter weighs the present innovation monomania by broadening our thinking about technological and institutional change. It is done by a multi

Ground-breaking yet non-technical analysis of the analogy that technological artefacts 'evolve' like biological organisms.

This insightful Handbook scrutinizes alternative concepts and approaches to the dominant economic or industrial theories of innovation. Providing an assessment