Economy and Technology

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Economy and Technology

• About the Hard Core of Innovation
• Lukas Scheiber

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Contents
1. Frame of Reference 2. Evolutionary Model of
Innovation 3. Economical Innovation 4.
Technological Innovation 5. Building Blocks of
Innovation Media of Success and Media of
Communication
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1. Frame of ReferenceSocial and Technological
Systems
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1. Frame of Reference NEI and NTI
Society
Organizations/Networks
Interaction
Education

Law
Social Work
Politics
Science

Technology
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2. Evolutionary Model of Innovation (John 2005)
Media of Communication Money, Power, Truth
Stabilization

• Variation

Selection

Organization
Irritation Communicative Deviance
System Formation
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3. Economical Innovation (Luhmann 1988)

• Economy as a Social System
• Medium of Success Money
• Code Property / not Property pay / not pay
• Program Price
• Formula of Contingeny Scarcity

Scarcity of Property is translated into the
Scarcity of Money
Imperative for Economical Innovation
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4. Technological Innovation (Halfmann 1996)

• Technology works as a Medium of Communication
• Complicate not Complex
• Causal Simplification and Repeatability
• If it (still) does not work, its a case for
  mental
• and physical Systems

The main thing when driving a car is not the
fixed causality between turning the key and
starting the motor but to choose other modalities
of communication like to speed or to cruise
through the city.
The more contexts of communications are
selectable (flexibility) , the better
technology works as a medium of communication
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5. Building Blocks of Innovation Media of
Success and Media of Communication

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5. Building Blocks of Innovation Media of
Success and Media of Communication

• Attributes of Media of Success
• Probability of Acceptance of Communication
  increases
• Symbolic (sustaining) and Generalized (feed
  forwarding)

• Attributes of Media of Communication
• Fixed Causality
• Repeatability

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4. Technological Innovation (Baecker 2007)
E.g. Communication and Information Technology as
a Medium of Communication
Computer Communication
Next Society
Complexity
Functional Differentiation

Printing Press
Stratification
Writing
Segmentation