Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. How Can a Technological System be Understood and Analyzed?; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. The construction of technology analysis models in systems; 1.2.1. The ontological approach of the technological system, a vision of structure; 1.2.2. Interdependence and technological coherence: the systemic principle of dynamics of technological systems; 1.3. The representation of the movement: the technological lifecycle, the discontinuity of the technical movement; 1.3.1. The technological lifecycle

1.3.2. The formalisms of the lifecycle: the S-curve1.3.3. The conditional stability of the S-curve: interaction between the individual lifecycle and the global technology movement; 1.4. Model for the internal restructuring of technology systems by means of the three components: technique-architecture- function; 1.4.1. A formalization of the technical system components: the technique-architecture-function articulation; 1.4.2. The dynamics of interaction by the function-architecture-principle relation; 1.4.3. Technological systems, waves of innovation and technological revolutions

1.4.4. Dynamics of the technological system and social system2. The Historical Dynamics of Technological Systems: Putting the Contemporary Technological System into Historical Perspective; 2.1. The great pre-industrial technological system; 2.1.1. The industrial revolution of the 12th Century. The medieval wave of a permanent innovation movement; 2.1.2. The rebound in the "Renaissance" -- is there a technological and innovative specificity of the Renaissance?; 2.1.3. Stabilization and classical maturity; 2.2. The English Industrial Revolution and the first industrial technological system

3. The Contemporary Technological System Emerges from the Previous One or the Third Technological Revolution3.1. The second industrial technological system; 3.1.1. The new generic technologies at the origin of this second system; 3.1.2. The formation of the second technological system; 3.1.3. A technological system for one hundred years; 3.2. The electromechanical technological system crisis; 3.2.1. The saturation of generic technologies and its direct manifestations; 3.2.2. Some of the indirect and global manifestations of the technological system crisis

3.2.3. The technological system and organization crisis4. Formation of the Third Technological System and First Wave of the New Technological System; 4.1. Emergence of new generic technologies; 4.1.1. From computing to information technologies; 4.1.2. The hyper choice of materials; 4.1.3. Biotechnologies; 4.1.4. Energy: originality in diversity; 4.2. The structuring of the new technological system; 4.2.1. The formation of the technological network; 4.3. Societal and epistemological transformation; 4.3.1. A technical and economic transformation

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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