Le déploiement de la low-tech: une nouvelle forme de diffusion par expansion de l'exploration

Timothée Boisseau (), Alexandre Azoulay, Pascal Le Masson () and Benoît Weil ()
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Timothée Boisseau: Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
Alexandre Azoulay: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Pascal Le Masson: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Benoît Weil: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The french low-tech movement is looking for a way to scale up through a profusion of initiatives. The importance of technical artefacts suggests that the diffusion of low-tech objects should be studied as a way of scaling up the movement. The literature on the diffusion of innovations points to certain incompatibilities between low-tech and the usual frameworks, opening the door to original forms of diffusion. The literature on low-tech and similar innovations outlines various forms of scaling up, in particular by questioning the interactions between the object and its environment during its diffusion. Through a qualitative case study of the diffusion of a solar oven, we will show that diffusion by replication of objects is relatively low in the cases studied. A second form of scaling up, a priori appropriate to the values of low-tech, is also studied: diffusion by replication of small production capacities with design margins. This second form also suffers from limitations. We will be highlighting a third form of scaling up, which encourages the expansion of the exploration of the unknowns associated with the object and its environment.

Keywords: étude de cas; low-tech; diffusion de l'innovation; passage à l'échelle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10-16
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Published in 15e journées du GT Innovation de l'AIMS, AIMS, Oct 2025, Annecy, France

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