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THE LIMITS OF THESE APPROACHES – By enriching, almost infinitely, the parameters and entities to be taken into consideration, this model undeniably makes the analysis more complex. It provides a valuable “education of the eye” that helps us to avoid many simplifying traps, but at the same time requires adjustments. Without questioning the status of material elements as “acting entities”, there are obviously differentiated properties between the domain of humans and non-humans, which this theory tends, if applied unqualifiedly, to level out excessively (Quéré 2015). Moreover, because of its anchoring in actor-network theory (Akrich et al. 2006), socio-technical analysis proposes a theory of action (what moves actors) that risks being reduced to strategic rationality; it is indeed largely about tactics, enrolments, interest, etc. (Quéré 1989). The danger is then that we cut ourselves off from certain contributions of the classical social sciences, which are nonetheless capable of taking into account the external determinants that precede innovation activities. By giving them their rightful place, it is possible to better understand how actors link or associate (types of social relations, structures), or – by mobilizing the achievements of more traditional sociologies (lifestyle, dispositions, cultures, etc.) – the phenomena of attraction or resistance to a particular enlistment or innovation (Gaglio 2012).