Invention and the Rise of Technocapitalism

Explores the infrastructure that supports invention as well as the relationship of technicapitalism with science, corporate business, and government. Includes 40 line drawings and 29 tables.

Luis Suarez-Villa is professor of social ecology at the University of California, Irvine

List of Figures and Tables

vii

Preface

xi

The Intangible Wealth of Nations

1

(40)

The Challenge of a New Era

3

(5)

Defining Invention

8

(3)

Creativity, Education, and Diffusion

11

(13)

Massification and Educational Quality

12

(5)

Can Diffusion Reproduce Creativity?

17

(7)

Invention as a Socioeconomic Resource

24

(8)

Technological Leadership and Invention

26

(6)

Summary

32

(9)

The Emergence of Technocapitalism

41

(70)

The Rise of Continuous Discovery

42

(23)

Paradigm Shifts and Continuous Discovery

45

(7)

Are Temporal Lags Declining?

52

(13)

The Corporatization of Invention

65

(14)

Can There Be a Free Market for Invention?

70

(9)

The Role of the State

79

(16)

Can Government Target Invention?

89

(6)

Summary

95

(16)

A Century of Invention

111

(50)

Invention and Patenting

112

(7)

Are Patents Good Indicators of Invention?

112

(7)

Accumulation during Industrial Capitalism

119

(17)

Industrial Capitalism and Invention

120

(5)

Late Industrial Capitalism

125

(4)

Invention and Innovative Capacity

129

(7)

Invention, Sourcing, and Technocapital

136

(16)

Is a New Geography of Invention Emerging?

137

(11)

Venture Capital as Technocapital

148

(4)

Summary

152

(9)

The Cycles of Invention

161

(26)

Cyclical Structure and Accumulation

162

(11)

Cyclical Patterns during the Twentieth Century

163

(6)

Corporate Invention and Cyclical Accumulation

169

(4)

Cyclical Patterns of Sourcing

173

(8)

Are There Cycles in the Geography of Invention?

174

(7)

Summary

181

(6)

The Infrastructure of Invention

187

(40)

The Role of Infrastructure

188

(13)

Static and Dynamic Functions

189

(5)

The Platform

194

(2)

Is There a Role for the Public Sector?

196

(5)

Infrastructure and Accumulation

201

(13)

Infrastructure during the Twentieth Century

201

(8)

Infrastructure and Innovative Capacity

209

(5)

Infrastructure and the New Geography of Invention

214

(7)

Summary

221

(6)

The Technocapitalist Dynamic

227

(20)

The Elements of Change

227

(7)

Microfacets

228

(4)

The Macrostructure of Change

232

(2)

The Structural Dynamic

234

(9)

A Perspective on Long-Term Change

234

(2)

Cyclical Interaction and Accumulation

236

(7)

Summary

243

(4)

Conclusions

247

(5)

Index

252

(13)

About the Author

265

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