Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Moderated by Sheila Jasanoff Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Maya JasanoffĬoolidge Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University Tarun Khanna Imitation is seen in more hard-headed, economic ways as a feature of developing countries, as a sign of imaginative inadequacy, and lack of authenticity it moves with incomes not time. Breaking down these oppositions and taking imitation seriously is the key to understanding global technical change in the twentieth century. Innovation is seen positively and futuristically, as a feature of a few selected, creative, entrepreneurial places it marches with time. In our imaginations innovation and imitation occupy different geographical, economic and moral spaces. On the other hand, the world has seen unprecedented rates of imitation, not least of old forms. This ‘innovation’ is disruptive, pervasive and fast, demanding new economic, political and social forms. In the last twenty or thirty years innovation has been central to the discourse on the economy. Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, (CGIS South S010) Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology, King’s College London Download poster (2.79 MB) Imitation, Invasion, Innovation: What really matters in global history of technology David Edgerton
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