Introduction
Professor Andrew Hargadon
Title Slide
Innovation and Change
When Innovations Meet Institutions...
Innovation literature
A science of the concrete
Institutions and the adoption of innovations
When innovations meet institutions on the ground
The role of Design
A historical perspective
Edison's innovation meets the established institutions
The inherent superiority of electricity
The reality of the institutional environment
Edison's innovation on the ground
Robust design and the electric light
Presenting the electric light as new
Presenting the electric light as old
Hiding the complexity backstage
Understanding design as designing understanding
The Phonograph
Prodigy
TiVo
Robust Design and Information Technology
“The sociology of everyday things”
Questions
Presentation of Tile
