Technology as a Public Culture in the Eighteenth Century: The Artisans' Legacy

Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane

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“…As an adjunct to this, Mokyr envisages "doers" and "makers" as industrialists, engineers and inventors to a much greater extent than as craftsmen, artisans and workers. However, Hilaire-Pérez (2007) points out that artisans also made associations with others in different trades and gained knowledge in this way, too.…”

Section: Useful Knowledge and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaboration and networking in the process of innovation: the path to precision time keeping

Proctor

2013

Journal of Management History

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of innovation management in the eighteenth century in the context of the search for precision time keeping in the watch making industry. In particular it looks at how knowledge was managed and transferred among interested stakeholders in the process. Design/methodology/approach -The paper reviews the published horological literature on the subject and considers it within modern theories relating to the management of innovation.Findings -This paper illustrates that personal contact and collaboration is important to the development of innovation. The paper highlights the importance of networking in the process of innovation and collaboration as a means to share and develop ideas. Collaboration with organisations working in adjacent technologies was found to be present and competition promoted by the incentive of financial reward was found to be a motivator factor for moving innovation forward. Originality/value -This paper will be helpful to academics who study innovation history as well as current innovation management practices.

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Section: Useful Knowledge and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaboration and networking in the process of innovation: the path to precision time keeping

Proctor

2013

Journal of Management History

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“…However, it seems evident that, it was related to practices like the usage of scaled-down models and measuring instruments in engineering, to field trials in agriculture, to learned correspondence, and to privileges for inventions, patents, and prize contests. Authors including Joel Mokyr and Margret Jacob have recently identified this cluster of media, institutions and practices, with regard to the eighteenth century, as part of an « industrial enlightenment », to which they attach considerable relevance to the onset of British industrialization 19 ; Other authors have questioned the top-down approach inherent in this argument and have opted for a broader analysis of technical knowledge that does more justice to a broad array of various forms of artisanal knowledge that undoubtedly produced viable economic effects in early modern Europe 20 .…”

Section: Applied Science or Technical Knowledge?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology and technical knowledge in the debate about the “great divergence”

Popplow¹

2016

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RésuméÀ la recherche des raisons pour lesquelles l'industrialisation apparaît d'abord en Europe plutôt que dans d'autres régions du monde, la technologie est souvent considérée comme un facteur prépondérant. Pourtant, les comparaisons restent souvent centrées sur les inventions spectaculaires et les performances quantifiables, perpé-tuant ainsi des catégories européocentrées. Cet article critique cette perspective de la recherche. En s'intéressant au problème du savoir technique, il propose d'enquêter sur les multiples aspects de l'expertise technique quelles que soient les régions du monde, plutôt que de poursuivre dans la perspective traditionnelle de l'application de la « science » aux problèmes techniques. Mots

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“…History of Science contributes nearly a hundred pages to a discussion of the implications of Joel Mokyr's Gifts of Athena (2002). Berg provides a concise critique of Mokyr's arguments, while Hilaire‐Pérez focuses on the conceptual division between ‘knowing and doing’, stressing the importance of artisanal innovation and technology as functions of public culture. Stewart, in a study of early laboratories, meanwhile, traces the convergence of experimental and industrial interests to the eighteenth century and to elite institutions where scholars such as Davy and Hadley acknowledged the practical applications of natural philosophy.…”

Section: (Iv) 1700–1850 Peter Kirby University Of Manchestermentioning

confidence: 99%