Discursive Aspects of Technological Innovation: The Case of the British Motor-Sport Industry

S Pinch and N Henry
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S Pinch: Department of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton S017 1BJ, England
N Henry: School of Geography, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England

Environment and Planning A, 1999, vol. 31, issue 4, 665-682

Abstract: A discursive approach to technological innovation recognises that scientific and technical innovations are the products of groups of people. The subject of this paper is how this insight from the sociology of scientific knowledge can make a contribution to debates in economic geography. Principally drawing on the work of social constructionists, this approach is used to provide insights into the reasons for both the creation and the maintenance of the geographical agglomeration of small firms constituted by the British motor-sport industry.

Date: 1999
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