Subsidiary Classes; Technology and Science

TF. Fields or disciplines

TI. Innovations, types of (various) These will generally be coded with linked notation: <computers> -- TI. We need only code here for certain broad types of innovation:

1. Mechanics

i. Instrument

e. equipment {machines or tools for use outside production)

m. Machine [EO923 Industrial Manufacturing and Processing Machinery and Accessories captures many but hardly all types of machine; Instruyments and tools occur in many places in the UNSPC.]

t. Tool

2. Chemicals [Chemicals also occur in many places in UNSPC]

3. Electrical [Ditto electrical]

TS. Stages of Innovation [types of] [These broad stages are widely accepted by scholars of technology. They need only be employed when discussing the process of innovation, and then only when particular stages are

referred to. In such cases, though, this coding will greatly facilitate comparisons across cases.]

1. Recognizing the Problem

2. Setting the Stage

3. Act of Insight

4. Critical Revision

5. Diffusion/transmission

Communication

Adoption

TM. Methods

TT. Theories