The Innovation Deficit in Urban Water: The Need for an Integrated Perspective on Institutions, Organizations, and Technology.
The Innovation Deficit in Urban Water: The Need for an Integrated Perspective on Institutions, Organizations, and Technology.
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城市水务的创新赤字：需要对机构、组织和技术进行综合视角。
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2013
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B. Truffer
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M. Kiparsky;D. Sedlak;B. Thompson;B. Truffer
制度变革和技术变革之间的相互作用对城市供水系统向能够满足未来需求的状态过渡构成了重要制约。对城市水和其他依赖技术的系统的研究提供了对有兴趣确保其努力将产生影响的技术研究人员有价值的见解。在研究制度变迁的背景下，创新是新知识和新技术的开发、应用、传播和利用。这一定义是有意包含的：技术创新将在城市供水系统的改造中发挥关键作用，但只是必要的一部分。创新通常取决于环境，因此基础设施的重大变革不仅包括推动水处理和输送系统提高效率和物理变革的技术发明，还包括阻碍和促成此类变革的政治、文化、社会和经济因素。根据城市水系统过去和现在的变化，制度创新将与技术创新在城市水改造中具有同样的重要性。为了解决当前城市水基础设施的挑战，以技术为重点的研究人员需要认识到技术和制度以及控制变化的社会制度的相互交织的性质。
Interaction between institutional change and technological change poses important constraints on transitions of urban water systems to a state that can meet future needs. Research on urban water and other technology-dependent systems provides insights that are valuable to technology researchers interested in assuring that their efforts will have an impact. In the context of research on institutional change, innovation is the development, application, diffusion, and utilization of new knowledge and technology. This definition is intentionally inclusive: technological innovation will play a key role in reinvention of urban water systems, but is only part of what is necessary. Innovation usually depends on context, such that major changes to infrastructure include not only the technological inventions that drive greater efficiencies and physical transformations of water treatment and delivery systems, but also the political, cultural, social, and economic factors that hinder and enable such changes. On the basis of past and present changes in urban water systems, institutional innovation will be of similar importance to technological innovation in urban water reinvention. To solve current urban water infrastructure challenges, technology-focused researchers need to recognize the intertwined nature of technologies and institutions and the social systems that control change.