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Technology and Innovation

Technologie et innovation




TechInn - ISSN 2399-8571 - © ISTE Ltd

Aims and scope

Objectifs de la revue

Technology and Innovation is multidisciplinary journal. Its objectives are : to analyze systems and scientific and technical paradigms ; study their innovation paths ; discuss the connections of technology to society but also to innovation, examine how innovation disrupts the functioning of organizations and companies nowadays and in the industrial past, study stakeholder strategies (enterprises, laboratories, public institutions, users) in the production, use and diffusion of new technologies, understand the systemics of these technologies and construct scenarios of their potential diffusion and application ; understand how innovation questions our categories of thought and upsets traditional knowledge mapping…and the meaning of innovation.

 

The journal welcomes articles from the following backgrounds : economy, management, history, epistemology and philosophy of techniques and innovation and design engineering.

 

Scientific Board

Laure MOREL (direction)
Université de Lorraine, Laboratoire ERPI
[email protected]

 

Smaïl AÏT-EL-HADJ
Institut Textile et Chimique
Université de Lyon
[email protected]

 

Angelo BONOMI
CNR-IRCrES, Italie
[email protected]

 

Sophie BOUTILLIER
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
[email protected]

 

Pierre BARBAROUX
Centre de recherche de l’armée de l’air
[email protected]

 

Romain DEBREF
Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne
[email protected]

 

Camille DUMAT
Université de Toulouse INP-ENSAT
Lab. DYNAFOR INRAE-INP
[email protected]

 

Joelle FOREST
INSA de Lyon
[email protected]

 

 

Sophie FOURMENTIN
UCEIV, Université Littoral Cote d’Opale
[email protected]

 

Nathalie JULLIAN
Université Picardie Jules Verne
[email protected]

 

Pierre LAMARD
Université de Technologie
de Belfort-Montbéliard
[email protected]

 

Didier LEBERT
ENSTA Paris
[email protected]

 

Sophie REBOUD
Groupe ESC Dijon-Bourgogne
[email protected]

 

Jean-Claude RUANO-BORBALAN
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
[email protected]

 

Jean-Marc TOUZARD
INRA
[email protected]

 

Konstantinos P. TSAGARAKIS
Technical University of Crete, Greece
[email protected]

 

Technologie et innovation est une revue pluridisciplinaire. Ses objectifs sont les suivants : analyser les systèmes et les paradigmes scientifiques et techniques, étudier leurs trajectoires d’évolution, discuter des liens de la Technologie à la société mais aussi de la Technologie à l’innovation, examiner comment les innovations bouleversent le fonctionnement des organisations et des sociétés aujourd’hui et dans le passé industriel, étudier les stratégies des acteurs (entreprises, laboratoires, institutions publiques, usagers) de production, d’utilisation, de diffusion des nouvelles technologies, comprendre la systémique de ces technologies et construire de scenarii sur leur potentiel de diffusion et d’application, étudier comment les innovations questionnent nos catégories de pensée et bousculent la cartographie traditionnelle des savoirs... penser le sens de l’innovation.

Elle accueille des articles en économie, gestion, histoire, sciences de l’information et de la communication, épistémologie et philosophie des techniques, ingénierie de l’innovation et design.

 

Conseil scientifique

Laure MOREL (direction)
Université de Lorraine, Laboratoire ERPI
[email protected]

 

Smaïl AÏT-EL-HADJ
Institut Textile et Chimique
Université de Lyon
[email protected]

 

Angelo BONOMI
CNR-IRCrES, Italie
[email protected]

 

Sophie BOUTILLIER
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
[email protected]

 

Pierre BARBAROUX
Centre de recherche de l’armée de l’air
[email protected]

 

Romain DEBREF
Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne
[email protected]

 

Camille DUMAT
Université de Toulouse INP-ENSAT
Lab. DYNAFOR INRAE-INP
[email protected]

 

Joelle FOREST
INSA de Lyon
[email protected]

 

 

Sophie FOURMENTIN
UCEIV, Université Littoral Cote d’Opale
[email protected]

 

Nathalie JULLIAN
Université Picardie Jules Verne
[email protected]

 

Pierre LAMARD
Université de Technologie
de Belfort-Montbéliard
[email protected]

 

Didier LEBERT
ENSTA Paris
[email protected]

 

Sophie REBOUD
Groupe ESC Dijon-Bourgogne
[email protected]

 

Jean-Claude RUANO-BORBALAN
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
[email protected]

 

Jean-Marc TOUZARD
INRA
[email protected]

 

Konstantinos P. TSAGARAKIS
Technical University of Crete, Greece
[email protected]

 

Forthcoming issues

Forthcoming papers

Journal issues


Recent articles

[FORTHCOMING] The low-carbon industrial process through the prism of sustainable system engineering
Jean-Pierre Micaëlli

This paper will address the issue of the Decarbonized Industrial Process (DIP) by adopting a systemic technological style. The DIP will be considered as an artificial system interacting with the earth’s natural, the social system and the technical systems. Designing the DIP involves engineering it as a system, and implementing the rules of Sustainable Systems Engineering (SSE). SSE provides concepts, methods and modeling techniques for clarifying the context, the requirements and the architecture of the DIP of interest, and framing the embodiment design of new solutions. An illustration will be given in the case of a highly carbon dioxide-producing process, namely clinkerization. However, our proposal is subject to significant limitations. We do not yet have any feedback on DIPs’ concrete implementation, and SSE remains an engineer-centric framework that cannot include key contributions from the natural sciences and the social sciences.


[FORTHCOMING] From Emile Huchet to Emil’hy: the difficult art of reconciling transitions in a post-industrial context
Dorian MAILLARD, Michel DESHAIES

Commissioned during the post-war reconstruction period, Emile Huchet was one of France’s main coal-fired power plants and underwent continuous modernization until the 1990s. At the end of Moselle’s coal mining operations (2004), the site entered a new phase marked by the privatization, deterritorialization, and diversification (into gas) of its activity, before being impacted by the acceleration of the energy transition and the announcement of the closure of the country’s last coal-fired power plants (2017). Since then, a public support scheme has been introduced to assist affected workers and foster the emergence of new substitute industrial activities, all sharing the common goal of reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions. This strategy of “decarbonized reindustrialization” thus positions the decarbonization of Emile Huchet as a lever for the site’s industrial (re)conversion and for the broader redevelopment of the Lorraine coal basin. Studying the trajectory of the Emile Huchet plant therefore provides a valuable opportunity to place this new decarbonization-driven recovery cycle within the longer historical reconfiguration of structural redevelopment dynamics in post-mining and post-industrial territories and, thus, to identify the nature of the current obstacles to the implementation of these associated objectives of industrial decarbonization and (re)conversion.


[FORTHCOMING] Decarbonation modes and ecological transition
Smaïl AÏT EL HADJ

This article presents, with an explicit angle on decarbonisation, the research that we carried out in the book: Ecological Transition and Technological Change, ISTE Volume 42, London 2024.The article highlights and describes three main decarbonisation paths, corresponding to three ecological transition issues: decarbonization as mitigation through capture and storage of emitted C02 with an unchanged technical and economic system; decarbonization as a solution to the ecological transition matter, centred on technological mutation, introducing decarbonised technologies as a replacement of fossil-fuel-based technologies, mainly combustion technologies. Finally, in view of the difficulty of achieving a satisfactory level of decarbonization, a third ecological transition issue is taking shape, namely the reorganization of our production, consumption and transport patterns, based essentially on sobriety and a reduction in the level of activity. The importance of the challenge means that these three decarbonization systems will continue to work in synergy.


[FORTHCOMING] From Kolòn to Digital Making: A Collaborative Platform to support Innovation and co-designing in communities of practice
Valérie Payen Jean Baptiste, Kalliopi Benetos, Schallum Pierre, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Laurent Moccozet, Valéry Psyché, Jocelyne Kiss, Giulia Ortolova

This research presents an innovative digital platform that combines the Haitian kolòn model with communities of practice theory to support projects’ co-design and collaborative learning in maker spaces. Build on a study involving 57 participants and five international maker communities, this platform has been designed to facilitate peer learning and skills development through a distributed mentoring system. Our results show significant improvements in collaborative capabilities and project success rates. The results highlight the co-creation process of a technological solution centered on a community-based, collaborative and inclusive approach. This work contributes to advancing Innovation and skills development in the field of digital fabrication by providing a framework for ‘learning by making together’ that bridges virtual and physical maker spaces.


[FORTHCOMING] Energy and industrial transition, towards a decarbonization cluster? Questioning changes in the Fos-Etang de Berre industrial port area
Sylvie Daviet, Tiffany Aubert, Alexandre Grondeau

This article questions decarbonization as a vector of systemic transformations through the prism of the cluster concept. It examines the interactions between technological innovations and new resources around the ETI, but also between social innovations, environmental issues and a new territorial project, in a context linking reindustrialization with climate objectives. Through the industrial-port complex of Fos-Etang de Berre, within the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis, decarbonization of existing industries and new low-carbon sites reveal the challenges of a collective structuring bringing the industrial world, public actors and civil society in a dynamic of multiple transitions.


At least 2800 years of history and innovation in serious games and other serious play activities
Stéphane Goria

Serious games as artifacts and serious play activities go back a long way. In the introduction to this issue of Technology & Innovation, we’d like to take a look at the history of playful practices and devices used for serious purposes. The history of these games can be dated back to early man, or to the first jacks (knucklebones) and dices found in archaeological excavations. But in written terms, it’s from the 5th century B.C. onwards that the first references to games in a utilitarian context appear. Quickly identified for some of its teaching qualities for children, or for adults by metaphor, it was also diverted to less praiseworthy ends such as betting, the staging of power or the manipulation of crowds. While these practices did not disappear over the centuries, they were more discreet until the year 1000, when they began to take on a new lease of life. However, it wasn’t until the 18th century that new edutainment activities appeared. Children’s games and military games were the focus of numerous experiments. With wargames, military games were also used to test ideas. Next came business and health games, which continued to develop well into the computer age. Indeed, from the very beginning, digital technology offered new, serious uses for games, and from the 1970s onwards enabled the development of a variety of utility games, the number of which has grown exponentially over the decades. This has led to the emergence of numerous sub-categories (advert games, newsgames, persuasive games, games with a purpose, agile games, etc.) and the resurgence of activities based on analog games or components thereof (serious gaming, serious play, gamification, etc.).


Serious game: human or animal invention?
Julian Alvarez

The aim of this paper is to determine whether the Serious Game is a human invention. To answer this question, we propose to check whether both Serious Game and Serious Play can be found in the animal kingdom. If such a census proves negative, then we can conclude that the Serious Game could indeed correspond to a human invention. If this were not the case, then Serious Play would be better regarded as inter-species activities. This would then lead us to study whether it is possible to identify common aspects and specificities between species. If, at the same time, it is possible to identify animals that also used objects to play for utilitarian purposes, then we could see the Serious Game not as an invention, but rather as the object of human innovation. To carry out this study, we will conduct a hypothetico-deductive analysis combining readings from ethology, biology and the humanities.


Innovation with microgames for hospital management: using serious games to generate response plans against cyberterrorism
Natalia Zwarts, Niek Jan van den Hout

Cybersecurity is one of the fastest growing professions, requiring a growing number of competent decision-makers. The need to make adequate decisions is not limited only to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists, but is also largely the responsibility of management. One of the methods to improve decision-making is to train through scenario-based serious games offering a preparedness review before a crisis materializes. The decision scope also changes with some new actors: politically, financially and psychologically motivated groups targeting cyber assets. Serious games often treat security in red (offensive) and blue (defensive) terms. This paper is mapping the potential differences that arise when the threat actor profile is presented in addition to the scenario, allowing the response plans of hospitals to be tailored to the specific threat. As the result, two contrasting scenarios are introduced, generating a response plan for a geopolitically-motivated hacker group and ideologically-motivated hacktivist. This approach could be further applied to cyber preparedness in hospitals, utilizing the process described in this study.


Variety and benefits of agile games to organizational innovation
Stéphane Goria

Agile games form a special category of serious games, because they are historically and above all associated with so-called agile methods. These methods emerged in the 1990s and they were structured around a manifesto in the early 2000s. Initially, these methods were essentially designed to improve the management of software and information technology design and development teams. Since then, their scope has been extended to the management of almost all types of projects and organizations. The success of some of their implementations has made the adjective "agile" trendy, leading to its overuse as a language element to describe a company as competitive or innovative. After a brief presentation of these methods, we turn in this text to the agile games that have been developed to promote them or support certain steps in their implementation. We draw up a cartography of these games, based on data collected from five websites and one book dedicated to them. Based on this collection, we estimate the variety and usefulness of these games. In fact, we present different sub-categories of these games, qualifying them and describing the most popular among the sources surveyed.


Serious games as a provocative research method?
Hélène Michel, Zeinab Sheet, Guy Parmentier

This paper explores the use of serious games as provocative methods in research. Through a detailed case study of research through gaming, the authors demonstrate how the researcher becomes a provocative agent who influences the dynamics studied, revealing behaviors otherwise inaccessible through traditional methods. This interdisciplinary approach enriches research but presents challenges in terms of method validation. Serious games require diverse skills and raise important ethical questions, particularly regarding participant protection. Ultimately, they transform research practice, promoting a more creative and engaged exploration of social phenomena.

Editorial Board

Editor

Dimitri UZUNIDIS
Research Network on Innovation, Paris
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Editors in Chief

Stéphane GORIA
Centre de recherche sur les médiations
Université de Lorraine
[email protected]

 

Thomas MICHAUD
ISI/Laboratoire de Recherche sur l’Industrie et l’Innovation
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
[email protected]

 

Co-Editors

Camille AOUINAIT
Réseau de Recherche sur l’Innovation
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Bertrand BOCQUET
Université de Lille
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Laurent DUPONT
ENSGSI-ERPI – Université de Lorraine
[email protected]

Blandine LAPERCHE
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
Clersé
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Cédric PERRIN
Université Évry Val d’Essonne
[email protected]

Schallum PIERRE
Institut intelligence et données (IID)
Université de Laval
Canada
[email protected]

Corinne TANGUY
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
[email protected]

 

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