Cognitive capitalism or knowledge capitalism is the pride and joy of high-income countries. It emphasizes technology-driven innovation, organized by the private sector. We investigate problems with this model and explore alternatives
Our general investigations
- Can contemporary innovation theory cope with the innovation crisis in high-income countries?
- Is innovation being damaged by too much emphasis on technology and too little on cultural and social factors?
- Why can't current innovation practice successfully develop an environmentally vital technology like 2nd and 3rd generation solar photovoltaic manufacturing?
- What new cultural and social goals would fix the current innovation system?
Affiliated Personnel
Projects:
Innovation Theory Website
- Can Rich Countries Still Innovate? Cultural and Technical Papers on a New Innovation Model ed. With Daryl Boudreaux (in preparation, due 2013).
Solar Futures: Science and Business Life in the Race against Climate Change
- Why is solar photovoltaic manufacturing going bankrupt at the same time as it installs more solar panels than ever before? Do practitioners have good ideas about how to turn things around?
Crucible Network - Policy research
- Crucible is a research network that originated in the University of Cambridge in 2001, and has since become the largest organization in the world dedicated to promoting rigorous research collaboration between technologists and researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AH&SS).
Related Publications
Books and Collections
(2017)
Can Rich Countries Still Innovate? Cultural and Technical Papers on a New Innovation Model
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Aug
2015
What Happened to Solar Innovation? (Film, 80 minutes)
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Articles
Mar
2013
2012
Does Solar Energy Need a New Innovation Model? The Case of Germany
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Jul 2012
Is Nanoscale Collaboration Meeting Nanotechnology’s Social Challenge? A Call to Nano-Normalcy
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Apr 2012
Jan 2012
A Transatlantic Conversation on Responsible Innovation and Responsible Governance
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Dec 2011
コグニタリアートの構造と沈黙 (Structure and Silence of the Cognitariat)
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Jun 2010*
Jun 2010
Avoiding Network Failure: the Case of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
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Mar 2010
Mar 2010
Is the Corporation a Social Partner? The Case of Nanotechnology
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Feb 2010
Jan 2010
Structure and Silence of the Cognotariat - Extended
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Dec 2009
Structure et Silence du Cognitariat (French)
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Oct 2009
Risky Business: Why Public is Losing to Private in American Research
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Jul 2009
Mar 2006
Jun 2005
Review of Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act
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Spring 2005
The Future of the Old Economy: New Deal Motives in New Economy Investors
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Jul 1998
Corporate Culture Wars
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1997
Autumn 1995*
Apr 1991*