附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Rod Coombs, Ken Green, Albert Richards and Vivien Walsh -- Many visible hands / Arie Rip and Aard J. Groen -- Great expectations: the construction of markets, products and user needs during the early development of gene therapy in the USA / Paul Martin -- Reconceptualizing the user(s) of, and in, technological innovation: the case of vaccines in the United States / Dale A. Rose -- Inducement and blocking mechanisms in the development of a new industry: the case of renewable energy technology in Sweden / Anna Johnson and Staffan Jacobsson -- Shaping the selection environment: 'chlorine in the dock' / Andrew McMeekin -- When markets meet socio-politics: the introduction of chlorine-free bleaching in the Swedish pulp and paper industry / Adrian Smith and Alain Rajotte -- Internet market applications in ship-broking: a framework and research findings / Nikolaos Pisanias -- Internet entrepreneurship: why Linux might beat Microsoft / Maureen McKelvey -- Design in the IT industry: the role of users / Leslie Haddon and Gerd Paul -- How innovative are users? A critique of learning-by-doing and -using / Remco Hoogma and Johan Schot -- Taste as a form of adjustment between food and consumers / Cecile Meadel and Vololona Rabeharisoa -- Services and innovation: demand-led changes in business organizations / Marcela Miozzo -- The missing link: innovation and the needs of less-developed country users / Andrew Tylecote and Claudia Galvao.
摘要:The interplay between demand from the market, the role of users in shaping that demand, and the way in which these factors influence the innovation process has always been a complex one. This work examines this interplay from a technological change perspective. The contributors explore the potential for "rapprochement" between economics, sociological and other social science disciplines in considering the allocation of resources and the making of decisions about technological change. The papers within this book represent a judicious blend of theory and empirical research and look at a broad ra.
