Emotional Drivers of Innovation : Exploring the Moral Economy of Prototypes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sörgel, Franziska.

Contributor:

Karlsruher Institut für Technology, Funder.

Series:

Science Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Innovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sörgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process. Instead of assuming that the innovation process is subject to rational and linear creativity, the study adopts the notion of ›moral economies‹ by Lorraine Daston as a space for negotiation. Such an approach enables decision-makers to question the evaluation criteria and patterns for technological developments before implementing them in society.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgement

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures

I. The Sensitivity of The New

II. Methodological Approaches and Empirical Analysis

2.1 Medical Prototypes as a Resource of Care

2.2 Methodology

2.3 The Research Sites

1) The Med‐Tech Incubator: Health Hub

2) The Makerspace: M.lab

3) The Creative Space: The Believer School

4) The Firm: 'Hydro'

5) The Private Investor and Innovator: Karwen

2.4 Materials, Methods, and Analysis

2.5 Reflexions During and After the Fieldwork

1) Confidentiality and discretion: Finding Adequate Interlocuters

2) Finding a way to Talk About emotions

3) The Ambivalence of Talking

4) Following the Prototype During a Pandemic

Theory - Thinking, Feeling, and Acting in the Moral Economy

III. From Problem to Possibility

3.1 Imagining Possibilities

3.1.1 Imagination as a Mental Force

3.1.2 Creativity as an Imaginative Act

3.2 Experiencing Daily Life

3.2.1 William James and the Creative Reality

3.2.2 John Dewey's Experiences as Interactions

3.3 Emotions Constituting the Technological Artefact

3.3.1 Emotionality with Things

3.3.2 How Emotions Lead to Judgement

3.4 Interim Conclusion: The 'Moral Economy' Around the Artefact

3.4.1 The One and the Many Ideas

3.4.2 Esprit de Corps in the Moral Economy

VI. Innovation‐Making

4.1 Structures of Innovation I: Spaces for Possibilities

Introductory Vocabulary on Innovation and its Definitions

4.1.1 Creating a Creative Environment

4.1.2 'Culture(s)' in Innovation‐Making

4.1.3 Expectations as Iterations in a Black‐Boxed System

4.2 Structures of Innovation II: Narratives, Myths, and Beliefs

4.2.1 The Evolving Narrative on Innovation

4.2.2 Mythmaking, Belief, and Performance

4.2.3 How Narratives Adapt

4.3 Values and Evaluation.

4.3.1 Constructing Value Consensus

4.3.2 Serendipity or a Matter of Perspective?

4.3.3 The Problematic Verifiability of Innovation

Empiricism - A System of Emotional Forces Around Innovation

V. The Imaginative Remedy

5.1 Dreaming of Bright Futures

From the field diary 6 February 2020

5.2 Seeing Problems, Being Radical

5.3 Emotional Motives

5.4 Conviction, Purpose, and Impact

VI. Premises and Other Problems

6.1 Finding a Lingua Franca

6.2 Conflicts and Emotional Decision‐Making

6.3 Trustful Coalitions

6.4 'Fake It Till You Make It'

VII. Emotions as Valuta

7.1 Claims and Ownership

7.2 Evaluations: From Self‐Fulfilment to Gilded Futures

7.3 Demo Day: Performing Emotion

7.4 Emotions as a Product

VIII. The Moral Economy of Different Intentionalities

8.1 From Radicality to Reductions to…

1) The Radicality's Creativity

2) The Moral Impact

3) Structures of Innovation

4) Innovation's Obstacles

5) Trust as a Meta‐Emotion in Co‑Working Processes

6) Emotions as Commodities

8.2 …Activity

References.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

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ISBN:

9783839471470

OCLC:

1454131923