Front Cover -- Observing Dark Innovation: After Neoliberal Tools and Techniques -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Dark Innovation -- The challenge -- Problematization -- Instrumentalities -- Overview of methods and chapters -- 2 Extant Theory -- Instrumental innovation models -- 'Linear' developments -- 'Pushmi-pullyu' devices -- 'Chain-linked' processes -- Changing lenses -- Focusing on 'systems' -- Neoliberal instruments -- Models as instruments -- Instrumental neoliberalism -- Instrumentality innovation -- 3 Historiographic Context -- History? -- Rhetorical history -- History as background -- ANTi-History -- Three historical accounts -- Defined by the Sea -- 'One of the three biggest' -- 'Internationally important' -- Context? -- Interessement -- Elision -- Cutting science -- Practising context -- 4 Narrative Politics -- Narrative devices -- Narrative neoliberalization -- Restorying analysis -- My narrative approach -- Three short stories -- Naval research in Halifax, 1940-70 -- Dalhousie University's Department of Oceanography, 1949-74 -- The Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1962-92 -- Narrative implications -- Characterization -- Public agents -- Private quartermasters -- Plot -- 5 Taxonomic Classification -- The taxonomic puzzle -- Pavitt's taxonomy -- Government as wastebasket taxon -- The dragons of mare incognitum -- Industrial parataxonomy -- The organism metaphor -- Organizations as organisms -- 'Inherited' characteristics -- Innovative agency -- Functional (dis)unity -- Hybridity -- Symbiosis -- Away from biological metaphors -- Moving beyond speciation -- Towards other classification tools -- 6 Surveying Topologies -- Regional networks -- Innovation system boundaries -- Testing regional boundaries -- Mapping the system -- Topological alternatives -- Regions.

Networks -- Fluids -- Fire -- Other topological metaphors -- 7 Sisyphean Statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Results -- Significance? -- Locus of innovation -- Results -- Linearity? -- Chain links -- Results -- Triviality? -- System dynamics -- Results -- Attack! -- Significant but meaningless -- 8 After Observation -- Entanglements -- Instrumentalities -- Absences -- Tools -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- References -- Index.