Technology entrepreneurship, by which we mean entrepreneurship on behalf of a new technology and its organizational and social acquisition, is more than one might think, given present use of the term, which focuses on technology as device. Here, taking the perspective of technology as routine capability, we reframe the concept to incorporate not only distributed agency involved around devices, but also distributed agency concerned with use through associated routines. We argue that technology acquisition in the form of capabilities concerns use and that technology entrepreneurship typically entails substantial institutional work in the promotion of adoption and use. We illustrate this in the case of the long and painful history of the acquisition of electronic health records (EHR). Our reframing leads to new insights. Among these is the identification of what we term path convergence and its importance in the social acquisition of a technology. We argue that technology entrepreneurs must attend to this path convergence, or the technology may not be widely taken up.

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科技创业比人们想象的更重要


技术创业，我们指的是代表一项新技术及其组织和社会获取的创业，鉴于该术语目前的使用重点是技术作为设备，它的含义超出了人们的想象。在这里，我们将技术视为例行能力，重新构建了这一概念，不仅包含涉及设备的分布式代理，还包含与通过相关例程使用有关的分布式代理。我们认为，以能力形式获得的技术涉及使用，而技术创业通常需要在促进采用和使用方面进行大量的制度工作。我们以获取电子健康记录 (EHR) 的漫长而痛苦的历史为例来说明这一点。我们的重构带来了新的见解。其中包括确定我们所说的路径融合及其在技术的社会获取中的重要性。我们认为，技术企业家必须注意这条路径的融合，否则技术可能不会被广泛采用。