@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0155, TITLE={Technical culture and culture of innovation: a general overview}, AUTHOR={Marianne Chouteau, Joëlle Forest, Céline Nguyen, }, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={2}, NUMBER={Issue 4}, YEAR={2017}, URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Technical-culture-and-culture-of-innovation-a-general-overview}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0155}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={Innovation appears to be the best solution to deal with the major contemporary problems facing today’s society, including global warming, an aging population, scarcity of resources, and so on. This special issue is structured in three stages. In a first step, hit reviews the history of the concepts of technical culture and innovation culture and their diffusion in society. The second part illustrates these concepts through the history of particular objects, that of cycling and digital technology. The last part of this issue focuses on action and on the one hand presents the culture of innovation in organizations and, on the other hand, technical culture as a training challenge.}}