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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ilkka Tuomi |
| ISBN: | 0199256985 9780199256983 019926905X 9780199269051 |
| OCLC Number: | 53871734 |
| Notes: | Originally published: 2002. |
| Description: | x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Innovation as Multifocal Development of Social Practice -- Putting the User in Focus -- Use as Meaningful Practice -- Production as an End -- Investment and Invention of Meaning -- Community as the Locus of Practice -- Interpretative Flexibility and Ecology of Social Practices -- Social Drivers of Innovation -- Individual Exploration -- Spaces of Novelty -- Dynamics of Networked Innovation Spaces -- Inventing the Web -- The FirstWorldWideWeb Proposal -- State of the Art: KMS -- Architecture of the WorldWideWeb -- Mobilizing Resources -- The Vision of Xanadu -- Sources of Success -- The Making of the Internet -- Laying the Infrastructure -- Networking the World -- Competing Technologies -- Message-packets and Resilient Networks: Innovation at RAND -- Time-sharing and Network Society: Work at NPL -- Interactive Computing: Augmenting the Human Mind -- Time-sharing and On-line Communities -- IPTO: Translating Ideas into Money and Technology -- Analysis of the Early Phase of Internet Development -- Technological Frames -- Resource Mobility in the Early Phases of Internet History -- Socio-Cognitive Spaces of Innovation and Meaning Creation -- Thought Collectives -- Speech Genre and Chronotope -- Communities of Practice -- Social Learning in Communities of Practice -- The Concept of ba -- Breaking through a Technological Frame -- Two Evolutionary Paths of Communities -- Development of Specialization, Division of Labour, and New Technological Frames -- Combinatorial Innovation in an Ecology of Communities -- Layered ba and Combinatorial Innovation -- Combination and Specialization in the Evolution of the Internet -- Email as a Combinatorial Innovation -- ARPANET Ecology and the Evolution of the Network Working Group -- Retrospection and Attribution in the History of Arpanet and the Internet -- ' The First Paper on Packet-switching Theory' -- Reconstructing the Internet -- Learning from Linux -- The Evolution of Linux -- The Linux Developer Community -- Sedimentation, Translation, and Reduction of Complexity -- Quality Control, Linus's Law, and the Ecology of Bugs -- Rules, Regulations, and Intellectual Property -- eveloper Incentives and Resource Allocation -- Linux as Modern Economy -- The Hierarchy of Innovation -- The New Economy -- The Road Ahead |
| Series Title: | SITRA (Series), 249. |
| Responsibility: | Ilkka Tuomi. |
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Surprisingly rewarding ... Food for thought for anyone who has to create new ideas for a living. * Focus * Tuomi's Networks of Innovation provides a fresh and extremely insightful analysis of how disruptive innovation actually happens, why innovation is so unpredictable and how is it intimately linked to the change of social practices. In addition he provides a brillant analysis of the innovative processes underlying the creation of both the internet and Linux sidestepping the ideology of open source while providing a highly nuanced reading of its context. Thisbeautifully written book is a must read for any student of innovation. * John Seely Brown, Director Emeritus, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); co-author The Social Life of Information * Read more...
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- Technological innovations.
- Internet.
- Internet
- Innovations.
- Innovation
- Open Source
- Rechnernetz
- Netzwerk.
