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Innovation Is Not Self-Driving

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Who’s Driving Innovation?

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A car crash is a product of countless causes. Individuals may in the moment make fateful decisions, but these decisions are enabled or constrained by the technologies around them, which are themselves the result of past choices.

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Stilgoe, J. (2020). Innovation Is Not Self-Driving. In: Who’s Driving Innovation?. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2_2

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