Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 264 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA January 23, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0199256985
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0199256983
-
Book Dimensions:
9.7 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"[Tuomi] traces the history of innovation achieved through the Internet, balancing general conceptual arguments and detailed in-depth case studies."--SciTech Book News
Product Description
Integrating concepts from multiple theoretical disciplines and detailed analyses of the evolution of Internet-related innovations (including computer networking, the World Wide Web and the Linux open source operating system), this book develops foundations for a new theoretical and practical understanding of innovation. It covers topics ranging from fashion to history of art, and includes the most detailed analysis of the open source development model so far published.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet (Hardcover)
A short book, written from the perspective of a research interested in the links between "Technology" and "Society". To me the book was worth reading if only for its focus on two insights. a) Innovation is about social change. A new product, a new technology, that does not provoke changes of behaviour will end up just being a foot note in some academic record. Socially irrelevant. b) Radical innovations tend to appear in the intersection between disciplines. Specialized organizations produce incremental innovations. Radical innovations require a more open environment. The history of the development of Internet, covered in the book, is a good example. A quick read, non academical.
Search for books at
