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Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
enlarge	Creator: John Ziman Publisher: Cambridge University Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$83.00~~ Buy New: $79.24 as of 5/22/2012 02:19 CDT details You Save: $3.76 (5%) In Stock New (11) Used (7) from $62.97 Seller: tabletopart Sales Rank: 1,523,268 Media: Paperback Pages: 400 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6 Dimensions (in): 1 x 0.7 x 0.1 ISBN: 0521542170 Dewey Decimal Number: 303 EAN: 9780521542173 ASIN: 0521542170 Publication Date: September 18, 2003 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Brand New Book.


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description Technological artefacts and biological organisms 'evolve' by very similar processes of blind variation and selective retention. This analogy is explored systematically, for the first time, by a team of international experts from evolutionary biology, history and sociology of science and technology, cognitive and computer science, economics, psychology, education, cultural anthropology and research management. Do technological 'memes' play the role of genes? In what sense are novel inventions 'blind'? Does the element of design make them 'Lamarckian' rather than 'Darwinian'? Is the recombination of ideas the essence of technological creativity? Can invention be simulated computationally? What are the entities that actually evolve - artefacts, ideas or organisations? These are only some of the many questions stimulated and partially answered by this powerful metaphor. With its practical demonstration of the explanatory potential of 'evolutionary reasoning' in a well-defined context, this book is a ground-breaking contribution to every discipline concerned with cultural change. Book Description Only those inventions that survive the test of use are reproduced. Technological artefacts thus 'evolve' like biological organisms. For the first time, leading experts from many disciplines discuss this analogy thoroughly in non-technical language, showing how it throws a new light on many aspects of social and economic change.