IDEA League Summer School: Trajectories of Technology

RWTH Aachen University Templergraben 55, Aachen, Germany

Is development of technology driven by innovation and break through engineering or is technology development incremental resulting from long-term agenda setting, road mapping processes, social interaction? By taking a break and looking back into the history of crucial technologies, path dependencies and decade-old trajectories can be observed. Beside the history and narrative of each singular …