On Kuhn, Popper and teaching technological innovation management Export

@article{citeulike:2919986, abstract = {Technological innovation plays a central role in economic growth and sustained research over the past 25 years has yielded an improved understanding of the multidisciplinary technological innovation process. The current concern of Western developed countries to improve their economies has created an educational need to provide courses on technological innovation management to mixed classes of science, engineering and management students. In teaching to students with diverse disciplinary and professional cultures without shared knowledge bases and value systems, it is useful to identify conceptual and methodological commonalities among the disciplines involved in this innovation process. This paper argues that Kuhn's and Popper's seminal contributions to the social psychology and epistemology of science appear to be implicitly reflected in more recent treatments of technological evolution and the pragmatic managerial evaluation of potential innovations. It explores commonalities and suggests that, by identifying them at the beginning of such a course, students can recognize common underlying psychological and methodological foundations to all aspects of the innovation process and aid their identification of future career paths for themselves in high-technology industries.}, author = {Martin, Michael J.}, citeulike-article-id = {2919986}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(83)90258-8}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VCT-4BP9CG3-2/1/fae43c411f5a1410e513205b025bfc1f}, doi = {10.1016/0377-2217(83)90258-8}, journal = {European Journal of Operational Research}, keywords = {epistemic, innovation, teaching, technology}, month = {November}, number = {3}, pages = {221--227}, posted-at = {2008-06-24 03:06:42}, priority = {2}, title = {On Kuhn, Popper and teaching technological innovation management}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(83)90258-8}, volume = {14}, year = {1983} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2919986 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2919986 N2 - Technological innovation plays a central role in economic growth and sustained research over the past 25 years has yielded an improved understanding of the multidisciplinary technological innovation process. The current concern of Western developed countries to improve their economies has created an educational need to provide courses on technological innovation management to mixed classes of science, engineering and management students. In teaching to students with diverse disciplinary and professional cultures without shared knowledge bases and value systems, it is useful to identify conceptual and methodological commonalities among the disciplines involved in this innovation process. This paper argues that Kuhn's and Popper's seminal contributions to the social psychology and epistemology of science appear to be implicitly reflected in more recent treatments of technological evolution and the pragmatic managerial evaluation of potential innovations. It explores commonalities and suggests that, by identifying them at the beginning of such a course, students can recognize common underlying psychological and methodological foundations to all aspects of the innovation process and aid their identification of future career paths for themselves in high-technology industries. IS - 3 JF - European Journal of Operational Research EP - 227 TI - On Kuhn, Popper and teaching technological innovation management VL - 14 SP - 221 KW - epistemic KW - innovation KW - teaching KW - technology AU - Martin, Michael PY - 1983/11// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(83)90258-8 ER -