The temporal dynamics of technology promises in government and industry partnerships for digital innovation: the case of the Copyright Hub |
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Authors: | Gian Marco Campagnolo Hung The Nguyen Robin Williams |
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Affiliation: | 1. Science, Technology &2. Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;3. Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London, UK |
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Abstract: | What is the expectation work required to ensure that technological innovation initially supported by government funding is subsequently taken up by market actors? This paper explores this question by applying a linked ecologies framework to the study of the Copyright Hub, a digital infrastructure for Intellectual Property trading developed in the UK. We draw our analysis from a five year long study, including forty-six interviews and six weeks of participant observation. We found that expectation work in policy-led infrastructural communities entails (1) leveraging technology to reshape the position of actors in the innovation space; (2) exploiting the different temporalities of expectation work in allied ecologies and (3) mobilising ‘slow’ expectations to provide momentum to the newly arranged innovation space. Highlighting difference in temporal dynamics for the various partners involved as a ‘hinging’ factor, our analysis contributes to clarifying the complex temporal alignment of policy and innovation processes in technology projects. |
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Keywords: | Expectations of technological change science & technology and innovation policy studies intellectual property rights digital infrastructure |
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