"We Must Be Open to New Technology": A Close Reading of Germany's Innovation Strategy.
Since the 1980s, innovation has emerged as the dominant epistemic framework for imagining and engineering futures across much of Europe and America. This article investigates the cultural and political work performed by contemporary innovation discourse, using Germany's Future Strategy for Research...
| Publicado en: | German Politics & Society Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 100 - 115 |
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Berghahn Books
Summer2025
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