Processes of socio-technical change that are triggered by new technological opportunities do not occur as radical fractures over short periods of time, subsequently leading to new periods of technological, institutional and organizational continuity. What appears - after ten, twenty, or thirty...

Neue Kommunikationstechnologien, Internet, Gentechnik - drei Beispiele, die zeigen, dass Technik ein wesentlicher Faktor des Wandels moderner Gesellschaften ist. Wann, warum und wodurch können neue Technologien bestehende Strukturen und Regeln destabilisieren und soziale Veränderungen...

Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sectoral change. The concept is based on two interrelated influencing factors. The first is the...

The paper examines two main questions: First, how are economic sectors changing under the influence of new technological opportunities that bear an enormous potential for development and deployment for them? And second, how might this kind of sectoral transformation be analyzed? To pursue these...

Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sectoral change. The concept is based on two main interrelated influencing factors. The first is the...

1. The transformative capacity of new technologies: an introduction -- 2. Technology and sectors -- 3. Types of innovation and sociotechnical transformation -- 4. New technologies and their transformative capacity -- 5. New technologies and sectoral adaptability -- 6. New technologies and...

Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sectoral change. The concept is based on two interrelated influencing factors. The first is the...