CHS: Small: Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship Cultures between Ghana, South China, and Silicon Valley

CHS：小：加纳、华南和硅谷之间的创新和科技创业文化

基本信息

批准号：
1617898
负责人：
Silvia Lindtner
金额：
$ 49.94万
依托单位：
Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-01-01 至 2022-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1617898&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CHS Small Innovation Technology Entrepreneurship

项目摘要

This research will investigate contemporary social and technological processes that bring together and motivate specific kinds of leaders shaping transnational networks of design and innovation in computing and communication technologies. Ethnographic research of tech entrepreneurship cultures in Accra (Ghana), Shenzhen (China), and Silicon Valley (USA) will document the complex reality of global technology production. Who is at the forefront of molding these emergent relations? What are the daily practices in the design and implementation of new technologies between these regions, and what are the social, cultural and economic processes that shape them? In both the high-end spaces of technology production and in the street-side low-tech stalls, technology entrepreneurs combine a range of tech skills and business acumen across borders to design, acquire, modify and distribute information technologies. All of these developments speak to a larger and currently unfolding transformation of where and how technology design and innovation take place. By focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship cultures, this project fosters a nuanced understanding of how models of technology production are changing in a world that is growing more connected globally. It also shows how both resource-rich and resource-constrained environments are innovating transnationally, and identifies what can be learned from them. Specifically, the research engages with two groups of innovators: 1) transnational tech entrepreneurs making software and hardware products; 2) hardware sellers and manufacturing entrepreneurs who assemble, distribute and repair electronic devices. The first group is often found in start-ups, incubators, and tech hubs whereas the second group works from factories, repair shops, and electronic markets. While each of these works in particular networks, they are increasingly coming together as hardware prototyping becomes more affordable and software development readily available. The researchers will engage with both groups across their sites of operation, observing and interviewing them as is standard in ethnographic study. The underlying goal is to identify how circulating concepts in tech entrepreneurship and innovation like start-up culture, design thinking, and Internet of Things shape both local strategies and transnational relations of technology production.

这项研究将调查当代的社会和技术过程，这些过程汇集并激励特定类型的领导者塑造计算和通信技术中设计和创新的跨国网络。阿克拉（加纳），深圳（中国）和硅谷（美国）技术企业家文化的民族志研究将记录全球技术生产的复杂现实。谁在塑造这些新兴关系的最前沿？这些地区之间新技术的设计和实施的日常实践是什么？塑造它们的社会，文化和经济过程是什么？在技术生产的高端空间和街头低技术摊位中，技术企业家将跨境的一系列技术技能和业务敏锐度相结合，以设计，获取，修改和分发信息技术。所有这些事态发展都表达了对技术设计和创新方式发生的更大且目前正在不断发展的转变。通过专注于创新和企业家文化，该项目促进了对技术生产模型如何在全球范围内越来越多的世界中变化的细微理解。它还显示了资源丰富和资源约束的环境如何在跨境上进行创新，并确定可以从中学到的知识。具体而言，研究与两组创新者互动：1）跨国技术企业家生产软件和硬件产品； 2）组装，分发和维修电子设备的硬件卖家和制造企业家。第一组通常是在初创企业，孵化器和技术枢纽中发现的，而第二组则来自工厂，维修店和电子市场。尽管这些都在特定网络中起作用，但随着硬件原型制作变得越来越负担得起，软件开发易于使用，它们越来越多地融合在一起。研究人员将与他们在运营地点的两个小组互动，观察和采访人种学研究的标准。根本的目标是确定技术创业和创新中的循环概念如何启动文化，设计思维和事物互联网塑造当地策略和技术生产的跨国关系。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（4）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Design(ing) 'Here' and 'There': Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets, and Reflexivity in Design Processes

DOI：
10.1145/2858036.2858509
发表时间：
2016-05
期刊：
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
影响因子：
0
作者：
Seyram Avle;S. Lindtner
通讯作者：
Seyram Avle;S. Lindtner

Tinkering with Governance: Technopolitics and the Economization of Citizenship

修补治理：技术政治和公民经济化