the history of an idea Godin, Benoit creator autor text bibliography mau Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2017 monographic eng ix, 324 páginas ilustraciones, gráficos Models abound in science, technology, and society (STS) studies and in science, technology, and innovation (STI) studies. They are continually being invented, with one author developing many versions of the same model over time. At the same time, models are regularly criticized. Such is the case with the most influential model in STS-STI: the linear model of innovation. In this book, Benoît Godin examines the emergence and diffusion of the three most important conceptual models of innovation from the early twentieth century to the late 1980s: stage models, linear models, and holistic models. Godin first traces the history of the models of innovation constructed during this period, considering why these particular models came into being and what use was made of them. He then rethinks and debunks the historical narratives of models developed by theorists of innovation. Godin documents a greater diversity of thinkers and schools than in the conventional account, tracing a genealogy of models beginning with anthropologists, industrialists, and practitioners in the first half of the twentieth century to their later formalization in STS-STI. Godin suggests that a model is a conceptualization, which could be narrative, or a set of conceptualizations, or a paradigmatic perspective, often in pictorial form and reduced discursively to a simplified representation of reality. Why are so many things called models? Godin claims that model has a rhetorical function. First, a model is a symbol of scientificity. Second, a model travels easily among scholars and policy makers. Calling a conceptualization or narrative or perspective a model facilitates its propagation. -- I. Stage models. The invention-diffusion framework : anthropologists and the study of cultural change -- The stage framework : sociologists and the study of social change. II. Linear models. The research cycle -- The linear model of innovation : a theoretical formulation -- The historical construction of an analytical framework -- The demand-pull model. III. System models. The research triangle -- A managerial view -- A national perspective. Epilogue. Why models of innovation are models, or What work is being done in calling them models. Benoit Godin Texto en inglés Filosofía de la tecnología Innovaciones tecnológicas Aptitud creadora Historia Siglo XX Tecnología aplicada 9780262035897 2016031366 Co-BoUCM 190228 20190228101249.0 spa spa