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Author Ait El Hadj, Smaïl, author.

Title The ongoing technological system / Smaïl Aït-El-Hadjait. [O'Reilly electronic resource]

Publication Info. London, UK : ISTE, Ltd. ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2017.
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Series Smart innovation set ; volume 11
Smart innovation (Series) ; volume 11.
Contents Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. How Can a Technological System be Understood and Analyzed?; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. The construction of technology analysis models in systems; 1.2.1. The ontological approach of the technological system, a vision of structure; 1.2.2. Interdependence and technological coherence: the systemic principle of dynamics of technological systems; 1.3. The representation of the movement: the technological lifecycle, the discontinuity of the technical movement; 1.3.1. The technological lifecycle.
1.3.2. The formalisms of the lifecycle: the S-curve1.3.3. The conditional stability of the S-curve: interaction between the individual lifecycle and the global technology movement; 1.4. Model for the internal restructuring of technology systems by means of the three components: technique-architecture- function; 1.4.1. A formalization of the technical system components: the technique-architecture-function articulation; 1.4.2. The dynamics of interaction by the function-architecture-principle relation; 1.4.3. Technological systems, waves of innovation and technological revolutions.
1.4.4. Dynamics of the technological system and social system2. The Historical Dynamics of Technological Systems: Putting the Contemporary Technological System into Historical Perspective; 2.1. The great pre-industrial technological system; 2.1.1. The industrial revolution of the 12th Century. The medieval wave of a permanent innovation movement; 2.1.2. The rebound in the "Renaissance" -- is there a technological and innovative specificity of the Renaissance?; 2.1.3. Stabilization and classical maturity; 2.2. The English Industrial Revolution and the first industrial technological system.
3. The Contemporary Technological System Emerges from the Previous One or the Third Technological Revolution3.1. The second industrial technological system; 3.1.1. The new generic technologies at the origin of this second system; 3.1.2. The formation of the second technological system; 3.1.3. A technological system for one hundred years; 3.2. The electromechanical technological system crisis; 3.2.1. The saturation of generic technologies and its direct manifestations; 3.2.2. Some of the indirect and global manifestations of the technological system crisis.
3.2.3. The technological system and organization crisis4. Formation of the Third Technological System and First Wave of the New Technological System; 4.1. Emergence of new generic technologies; 4.1.1. From computing to information technologies; 4.1.2. The hyper choice of materials; 4.1.3. Biotechnologies; 4.1.4. Energy: originality in diversity; 4.2. The structuring of the new technological system; 4.2.1. The formation of the technological network; 4.3. Societal and epistemological transformation; 4.3.1. A technical and economic transformation.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary We start from the analysis of a powerful current of innovation of the last twenty years, these years 1995 to today, era of the "convergence" giving new products like mobile phone, networks and especially internet. This dynamic is also based on the mastery of genetics and new materials, while environmental constraints are beginning to profoundly change technological paradigms. We use the concepts of technological systems, born in the 1980s, with tools for analyzing the structure of the organization of technology, its dynamics of evolution, and the transitions between its phases. These instruments enable us to characterize the historical technological systems, to model the specific dynamics and the modalities of transition. This analysis will open up the question of the continuity of the contemporary technological system, of its capacity to regenerate itself under environmental constraint. The alternative may be a new technological revolution with the introduction of a new bundle of generic technologies to cope with the constraints and challenges of our current development.
Subject Technological innovations.
Innovations.
Technological innovations
ISBN 9781119467052 (electronic bk.)
1119467055 (electronic bk.)
9781119438014 (electronic bk.)
1119438012 (electronic bk.)
1786302144
9781786302144
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