The current project seeks to understand the process and impediments of technological adoption through the lens of history. Specifically, this project will look at the issue of European technology adoption in silk weaving industry. Such understanding has huge implication for technological policies in present time. Usually technology is thought to be an objectively detailed, asocial blue print whose success does not depend on social organizations. But various studies show that development of technology critically depends on social structures and values. In this project we analyze different possible socio economic reasons behind the failure of the adoption of filature technology in silk industry in Bengal in the eighteenth century. The project was accomplished under the following chapters:

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项目报告：技术采用和发展的历史：以印度殖民地的丝绸业为例

当前的项目旨在通过历史的角度来理解技术采用的过程和障碍。具体来说，该项目将研究欧洲在丝绸织造行业中采用技术的问题。这种理解对当今的技术政策具有巨大的意义。通常，技术被认为是客观详细的社会蓝图，其成功与否取决于社会组织。但是各种研究表明，技术的发展关键取决于社会结构和价值观。在这个项目中，我们分析了十八世纪孟加拉丝绸工业中采用丝线技术失败的各种可能的社会经济原因。该项目根据以下章节完成：