Authors’ Workshop: Indicators of the New. Innovation as social technology or social methodology?

The workshop took place on 24th and 25th of June 2010 in Berlin. The discussion of the contributions was reflected in a summary position document.
CONTRIBUTIONS
SOCIAL METHODIZATION OF THE NEW – CLIMATE CHANGE, SUSTAINABILITY AND EDUCATION
– ANDREA PRONZINI (LUZERN), CRISTINA BESIO (BIELEFELD/BERLIN), ROBERT SCHMIDT (BERLIN): Promises of Innovation. The example of political discourse on climate change pdf
– MICHAEL WEHRSPAUN (DESSAU): Sustainability as Cultural Renewal. Evolutionary theoretical considerations on the contribution of social innovations pdf.
SCIENTIFIC METHODIZATION OF THE NEW – NEW ECONOMY, NETWORK THEORY, COMPUTERIZATION AND GROWTH PARADIGM
– HOLGER BRAUN-THÜRMANN (HAMBURG): Elements of a system network analysis of innovation pdf
– MANUELA RISCH, MICAELA BELEDENZ (ZURICH): Application of a discourse analytic indicator for social change analyses pdf
– NADINE MÜLLER (BERLIN): Innovations in the Process of Computerization pdf
– TORSTEN BERGT (HILDESHEIM): Innovations and Growth Fields – in the Proximity of Vertical Increasing Relationships pdf
INDICATORIZATION OF INNOVATION: CRITIQUE, REFLECTION, DISCUSSION
– UWE KRÄHNKE (CHEMNITZ): Can detaching oneself from the problem be innovative? On an underestimated aspect of innovative capacity in modern societies pdf
– EDWIN KEINER (ERLANGEN): Information für die Vielen – Wissen für die Wenigen?
The program can be downloaded as a pdf document.
Workshop Program