Understanding Innovation
J-InnovaTech seeks to challenge the scholarly understanding of how Japan became a global industrial power and more broadly our conceptual understanding of what is innovation and how it happens. By bringing technological change into historical focus, the project challenges the notion of innovation as disruption. Instead, drawing on the empirics from the human past, this project restores to sightline the diversity of paths to game-changing technologies.
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See all newsJ-InnovaTech organizes its first summer school!
Our passion for deciphering sources was stronger than our desire for summer vacation! Professor Iwaki Takuji, Director of the Institute of Humanities at Kyoto University, will be leading the first summer school in the J-InnovaTech project: an introductory course in reading documents in cursive characters, or kuzushi-ji in Japanese!
They are talking about us : CNRS Tokyo
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Translating Salt: Miura Genzô’s Secrets of Salt Making (1816), and the Historian’s Mandate
What do Historians bring into their translations ?