Introduction : the quest for innovation and cultures of technology / Helga Nowotny 1

1 Culture and innovation / Thomas P. Hughes 27

2 The unintended consequences of innovation : change and community at MIT / Rosalind Williams 39

3 The vulnerability of technological culture / Wiebe E. Bijker 52

4 Culture of gender, and culture of technology : the gendering of things in France's office spaces between 1890 and 1930 / Delphine Gardey 73

5 Suspending gender? : reflecting on innovations in cyberspace / Judy Wajcman 95

6 Innovation, diverse knowledges, and the presumed singularity of science / John V. Pickstone 113

7 Scientists on the battlefield : cultures and conflicts / Jean-Jacques Salomon 133

8 From prophecies of the future to incarnations of the past : cultures of nuclear technology / Patrick Kupper 155

9 The mining industry in traditional China : intra- and intercultural comparisons / Hans Ulrich Vogel 167

Epilogue : interdisciplinarity and the innovation process : how to organize spaces of translation, or, the politics of innovation / Joachim Nettelbeck 191