This study seeks to unravel the factors that have triggered changes in individuals'
engagement with online consumption during the COVID-19 crisis and investigate the …

Exploitative innovation emphasizes the refinement of technologies. For example, the super
long and super flexible blade is an improvement on the traditional blade. Exploratory …

With 21,136 MW of wind energy installed in 2014, India is considered a success story in
terms of net installed capacity. Few existing studies on Indian wind energy have highlighted …

The practices of science and technology are saturated with expectations, promises, and
prospective claims. Scientists “have the future in their bones” as CP Snow (1964, 17) …

This special issue analyses and reflects on socio-technical futures as core elements in
innovation processes and their governance. The special issue assembles twelve …

This essay reviews the German-language literature on technology and innovation and maps
the main developments in this fragmented field from a sociological perspective. It focuses on …

Large technical systems (LTS) are integral to modern lifestyles but arduous to analyze. In
this paper, we advance a conceptualization of LTS using the notion of mature “phases,” …

In recent years, the Forecasting Innovation Pathway approach (FIP) has shown to be a
promising set of tools to capture potential developments in emerging fields through …

Organizations need to shift from the existing path and form a new path (ie, realizing path
transformation) after disruptive environmental changes, and yet it is a difficult process hardly …

Graphene is a material consisting of ideally one layer of carbon atoms that has been
claimed to enable a new wave of disruptive technological innovation. Similar to other techno …