Godin Benoît
When it comes to the innovation of technology, one theory often looked at is considered the “straightforward model”. In a nutshell, this model states that technological ingenuity occurs in a linear (straight) fashion, beginning with basic theoretical research, going on to apply this research and consequently developing technology using the knowledge gained. Over the decades, this has been extensively studied and has fallen under much criticism (Godin, 2006, and Balconi, 2010). Another model, that of “sequential” innovation, has been studied equally as often, though not as deeply. Similar straightforward model; it states …show more content…
Section one of this document expands upon the controversy (dispute) surrounding diffusion. Section two deals with the alternatives that were raised to help the problem. One such alternative combined both creation and dispersion into a process: cultures begin inventing and this later diffuses throughout societies. The third, and final, section observes how follow-up studies concerning innovation, especially technological innovation, identified the sequence thrive as a …show more content…
A. Comte, H. Spencer, K. Marx, L. Morgan, and E. Tylor, took to describing civilisation as evolving yet nevertheless going through distinct phases. They were joined in this by many scholars of history. For these theories to works some assumptions had to be made, and these were: That basic human instinct is the same throughout. Regardless of which path societies took, they were heading in a similar direction. Moreover, that societies underwent the same development, their differences representing varying stages and progression speeds of evolution. Accordingly, these theories were similar to an organic life-cycle, such as that of an embryo, going through