Technopreneurialism: the importance given to entrepreneurs, especially expertise and innovators with business orientations is a new area of sociological enquiry in STS. For example, the South East Asian countries are reimaging development not on the basis of their annual GDP and its increase by production in industries, but through the successful operations in the knowledge economy.
Citizenship: this study contributes to the way how citizenship is viewed and understood in a technocratic society, where technology defines the economy and other social infrastructures and policy. This book gives a great example of how expertise in technological knowledge economy makes some superior citizens and others as secondary. One of the good insight from the book is how certain kind of cultural biases such as racism, regionalism etc affects citizenship even in a knowledge economy based society and reproduces inequality and stereotypes.
Knowledge economy: this directly derives from the Foucauldian understanding of knowledge as a power. He gives an example of how royal societies of Europe and colonial institutions from the period of renaissance onwards created a hierarchical epitome, which outlasted any kind of alternative knowledge production and became the founding stone of capitalism. The same issue is again surfaced in the case of the South East Asian economy, where the production of a certain kind of knowledge is discriminating a certain section of the population. For example, the popular culture does not give an account of people who are working in sweatshops of India, whose labour become the reason for earning more foreign currency than any other and being the largest second employer after agriculture, is becoming invisible in the discourses around so-called nation-building, this due to our obsession with knowledge economy .
