New technologies may be heralded as life-changing innovations or feared as risks to moral values, human health, and environmental safety. Anxieties surrounding technology are often heightened by perceptions that their benefits will accrue to small sections of society while the risks are more widely distributed. Innovation and Its Enemies identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order andstability as one of today's biggest policy challenges.
New technologies may be heralded as life-changing innovations or feared as risks to moral values, human health, and environmental safety. Anxieties surrounding technology are often heightened by perceptions that their benefits will accrue to small sections of society while the risks are more widely distributed. Innovation and Its Enemies identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order andstability as one of today's biggest policy challenges.
Calestous Juma, a national of Kenya, is an internationally-recognized authority on the role of science, technology and innovation in economic development. He is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School. He directs the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and serves as Faculty Chair of Harvard's Innovation for Economic Development executive program. Juma is a former Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi. He was Chancellor of the University of Guyana and has been elected to several scientific academies including the Royal Society of London, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and the African Academy of Sciences.
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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Gales of Creative Destruction 2. Brewing Trouble: Coffee 3. Stop the Presses: Printing the Koran 4. Smear Campaigns: Margarine 5. Gaining Traction: Farm Mechanization 6. Charged Arguments: Electricity 7. Cool Reception: Mechanical Refrigerated 8. Facing the Music: Recorded Sound 9. Taking Root: Transgenic Crops 10. Swimming against the Current: AquAdvantage Salmon 11. Oiling the Wheels of Novelty Notes References Index
