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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - Sales & Marketing category Create an influencer marketing strategy that benefits both brand and the influencer with this fascinating guide, rich in case studies from the biggest and the best and the small and specialist. Influencer marketing can no longer be ignored. Whether it's broad scale celebrity endorsement, or micro-influencers with niche, highly targeted followings, influencer marketing has become a natural extension of content marketing. However, while the opportunities are vast, the very nature of influencer marketing means that a brand must relinquish control of their marketing message to allow the influencer to communicate in their natural style. This can be unnerving, and it's therefore imperative to have a clearly defined campaign that mutually benefits and protects both the brand and the influencer. Influencer Marketing Strategy gives readers everything they need to create influencer marketing strategy. It will walk readers through the key considerations, and offer insight into decisions such as choosing the right influencer, planning content, and how to incorporate influencer marketing into your wider marketing strategy. This book presents fascinating, in-depth case studies from the beauty, fashion, gaming, travel, health and tech industries, demonstrating the variety of ways that influencer marketing can be utilized, and the huge opportunities it presents for organizations and industries of all sizes. Influencer Marketing Strategy is the ultimate guide to developing a successful influencer marketing strategy - and building campaigns that create real value.Trade Review"This book is a fantastic resource for anyone involved in the Influencer Marketing industry. It brings together brilliantly the leading experts in the sector who share their views on the current and future trends." * Andrew Canter, Global CEO, Branded Content Marketing Association (BCMA) *"Great to finally find a book that brings together so many different elements of the influencer marketing profession and tackles key issues such as strategy, authenticity, and compliance." * Rupa Shah, Director, Hashtag Ad Consulting *"If you want a solid foundation in influencer marketing, you should definitely read this remarkable book. It will give you an organized system of actionable knowledge and a complex view from different angles." * Nick Baklanov, Marketing specialist, HypeAuditor *"Gordon leaves no stone unturned in his assessment of our industry. Perhaps one of the few texts currently available to thoroughly investigate Influencer Marketing in its many forms and bring together the views of those forging its future." * Craig Knox, Head of Talent and Influencer Marketing, The Corner *"This handbook is an essential, engaging yet incredibly practical read for marketers and talent, to fully understand Influencer Marketing. It will surely be recognized as a key tool in the maturation of the industry of influence in years to come." * Davnet Doran, Head of Brand PR, Britvic *"A comprehensive introduction to the world of influencer marketing. It removes the mystery from this industry and shows how you can get the best return on your investment." * John Adams, Award-winning Dad Blogger *"A must-read if you want to get a global influencer marketing outlook, that provides theory that is easy to read, understand and apply!" * Maria Rodriguez, Communications and Marketing Director, Open Influence *"This is a timely addition to the influencer landscape to help those working in this dynamic and fast-moving industry and is a must-read for marketing agencies, content creators, and organisations large and small." * Elle Linton, Top Fitness Blogger *"This book is a great exploration of makes influencer marketing such an effective business marketing tool definitely worth a read to anyone considering the utilisation of social media in their future marketing strategy." * Louise Simpson, Blogger @beautifully_defected *"The business of influencer marketing is probably the most misunderstood of marketing practices. Gordon has managed to distil the practice into a simple to understand book that outlines what can sometimes seem the contradictory approaches needed to execute truly effective influencer marketing depending on the platforms, industries and needs of brands. I highly recommend it for anyone starting in the industry or those looking to expand their understanding and step outside their comfort zone." * Dudley Neville Spencer, strategy consultant, Virtual Digital Agency *"An essential read for anyone involved in, or considering, influencer marketing." * William Bonaddio, Social Media Marketer and International Keynote Speaker *"A well-researched primer for anyone who wants to build their influencer marketing knowledge from the ground up. By digging into the research and supplying interviews with the experts, this book will help you avoid common mistakes in influencer marketing while leveraging the best practices. It is definitely worth your time." * Jim Tobin, President and Founder, Carusele, and author of Social Media is a Cocktail Party and Earn It. Don’t Buy It. *"Absolutely jam-packed full of incredibly useful information that (finally) feels like it is all in one place. A must-read for all in the industry, no matter your level." * Sophie Crowther, Head of Influencer Talent, Brave Bison *"This is an essential read for everyone involved in the space or considering getting involved - not only as an introduction, but as an ongoing reference into the world of influencer marketing. Well done on a fantastic book." * Pieter Groenewald, Divisional CEO, Nfinity *Table of Contents Section - 00: Introduction; Section - 01: What is influencer marketing?; Section - 02: The major platforms for influencer marketing; Section - 03: Creating your strategic framework; Section - 04: The legal impacts of influencer marketing; Section - 05: Working with influencers; Section - 06: Finding influencers; Section - 07: Creating an ambassador programme; Section - 08: Influencer marketing around the world; Section - 09: The future of influencer marketing; Section - 10: Understanding analytics and measurement; Section - 11: Case studies; Section - 12: Appendix 1 – Directory of influencer marketing platforms, agencies and consultants; Section - 13: Appendix 2 – Glossary of terms; Section - 14: Index

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Book SynopsisWhen we think of global corporations and business in general, do we feel pride in how we do things? Are we doing enough, given the undeniable reality of global climate change and the inequality faced by millions of people every day? Beyond Good is a call to arms for business leaders to recognize how they can do well by doing good. Business for good, which is the philosophy that you can pursue profits whilst delivering on sustainable and societal development goals, is already delivering big changes in the business world. In Beyond Good, top tech influencers Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer, showcase how fintech is taking the lead and what we can all learn from it. The winners in these tech start-ups are utilizing a momentum that exists within a thriving eco-system of current incumbents facing up to revolutionizing start-ups. They unlock possibilities with new technologies and serve the often-forgotten demographics to make financial health and inclusion a reality. With exclusive interviews with experts from the B-Corp world, policy makers and executives, this book also showcases how companies like Microsoft, Flourish Ventures, Ant Financial, Sunrise Bank and Paypal are doing their bit to make our world better - and you can too.Trade Review"As a society, we are long overdue in reimagining the social contract in light of contemporary realities and mega trends. The events of 2020 have laid bare how damaging it is to continue to allow antiquated systems and business models to persist. Beyond Good is the book leaders and change makers (from all sectors - private, public and non-profit) need to read as we co-create new solutions and forge a path to a more inclusive social contract that allows all to live with dignity, security, and purpose." * Ramsey Alwin, President and Chief Executive Officer, NCOA *"Beyond Good is far from a typical business book. It is a thought-provoking read that articulates simply and clearly the principles that everyone can - and should - apply across all aspects of life, in the workplace and beyond. Making the world a fairer place is in our hands, and Beyond Good inspires you to strive for it, for the common good." * Tanya Andreasyan, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, FinTech Futures *"Look no further for a roadmap of the central challenges facing civil society at the intersection of technology, ethics, and economic inequality. Beyond Good reimagines what progress looks like within an empathy and inclusion context, and provides new insights into one of the most enduring social challenges: how can technology build equitable and sustainable economic prosperity? Beyond Good is the best place to start for an answer, because it forces us to rethink how innovation can be part of the solution." * Scott Astrada, adjunct professor of Law at Georgetown University Center, and digital civil society fellow, Stanford University, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society *"We need more books like this. Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer have clearly done their homework and used their lockdown time well. As we see more companies aiming to deliver sustainable and ethical services, this book, full of positive and practical real-world examples, aims to educate and inform us that it is possible to achieve results that are beyond good." * Simon Cocking, Chief Editor, Irish Tech News *"Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer provide a sweeping look at the trends that define our changing world, challenging leaders in financial services to direct their inherent power to shape a more equitable and empathetic global economy." * Catherine Harvey, US economic policy expert *"From financial inclusion to gender equality, from empathetic leadership to inclusive entrepreneurship, Beyond Good covers a wide spectrum of socially conscious strategies for business leaders. Abundance of detailed research and insights delivered with conviction makes it a compelling read. Some books leave us with something to think about. In contrast, Beyond Good will stay with us for a very long time by providing a roadmap to a more equal and sustainable world for generations to come. A must-read for every socially conscious mind." * Arun Krishnakumar, Partner at Delphos International *"Bradley Leimer and Theodora Lau smash through the boundaries of traditional business models, and expose us to a new purposeful, inclusive and empathetic world where everyone can genuinely still win together for the common good. Beyond Good will compel you to consider the real future of business, inspire you to be a part of it and to take action in your communities to make it happen. An absolutely essential read." * Paul Loberman, chief product officer, untied *"I love Theodora Lau's and Bradley Leimer's Beyond Good and recommend it to everyone in the start-up world wholeheartedly. We all should aim to advance technology and help its involved participants to fulfil the ultimate goal to drive the purpose-driven business technology revolution." * Spiros Margaris, Venture Capitalist and Advisor, Margaris Ventures *"Beyond Good is a timely and essential read for global financial service executives. Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer persuasively show that now - more than ever - is the time for business leaders to play a crucial role in tackling our most pressing societal challenges and engage in significant commercial opportunities that do well by doing good. This book is an invaluable resource for all those inspired to harness technology innovation to build a fairer and more inclusive financial system." * Sarah Mogenstern, Venture Partner, Flourish Ventures *"Acting upon a sense of broader purpose is instinctual. We evolved with basic instincts to band together and act in the common good. The common economic models in play just don't pass the smell test as sustainable. Beyond Good deconstructs and then reconstructs a better way forward. There is a strong theme of interconnectivity throughout this book that makes a strong case for empathy and awareness of how our choices and strategies never happen in a vacuum. We can choose to forge a path that leaves in its wake a positive impact, or we can choose a path of zero-sum gain. Throughout this read, I was frequently able to make connections to tangible ways that I and our organization can coalesce around a better way forward." * Curt Queyrouze, President TAB Bank *"Beyond Good reminds us that behind every company doing well are passionate people who are doing good. Today's seemingly impossible challenges can be met by us, if we're brave enough to act. For those in financial services, the call to action is clear: when you create a strong culture that leads with empathy and pair it with today's technology, you are uniquely positioned to make a positive difference. You can lead with purpose and build your own success!" * Matthew Sekol, Industry Executive, Capital Markets, Microsoft *"There are many themes of the 21st century that resonate in Beyond Good - a more inclusive society, addressing the climate emergency, creating a better world and more - all enabled by technology, governmental and financial market change. This book is an essential guide to rethinking our world for the good of society and the planet. In other words, beyond good to beautiful. Who could ignore that? Thoroughly recommended." * Chris Skinner, Chief Executive Officer, The Finanser Ltd *"An inspiring meditation on the many ways we can take action to make a mark on the world. Reading Beyond Good will leave you wanting to be an empathetic leader who champions efforts that address big societal problems, like economic inequalities and ageism. As Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer write: Our work means something more than a value exchange for money." * Mary Wisniewski, Banking Editor, Bankrate *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Changing tides; Chapter - 02: Foundations of inclusion; Chapter - 03: Forces of disruption; Chapter - 04: A renewed business model; Chapter - 05: Serving the forgotten; Chapter - 06: The profit conundrum; Chapter - 07: Leadership for good; Chapter - 08: A way forward; Chapter - 09: Moving hearts and mindsets (to action); Chapter - 10: Principles of Beyond Good; Chapter - 11: References;

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Book SynopsisWhen we think of global corporations and business in general, do we feel pride in how we do things? Are we doing enough, given the undeniable reality of global climate change and the inequality faced by millions of people every day? Beyond Good is a call to arms for business leaders to recognize how they can do well by doing good. Business for good, which is the philosophy that you can pursue profits whilst delivering on sustainable and societal development goals, is already delivering big changes in the business world. In Beyond Good, top tech influencers Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer, showcase how fintech is taking the lead and what we can all learn from it. The winners in these tech start-ups are utilizing a momentum that exists within a thriving eco-system of current incumbents facing up to revolutionizing start-ups. They unlock possibilities with new technologies and serve the often-forgotten demographics to make financial health and inclusion a reality. With exclusive interviews with experts from the B-Corp world, policy makers and executives, this book also showcases how companies like Microsoft, Flourish Ventures, Ant Financial, Sunrise Bank and Paypal are doing their bit to make our world better - and you can too.Trade Review"As a society, we are long overdue in reimagining the social contract in light of contemporary realities and mega trends. The events of 2020 have laid bare how damaging it is to continue to allow antiquated systems and business models to persist. Beyond Good is the book leaders and change makers (from all sectors - private, public and non-profit) need to read as we co-create new solutions and forge a path to a more inclusive social contract that allows all to live with dignity, security, and purpose." * Ramsey Alwin, President and Chief Executive Officer, NCOA *"Beyond Good is far from a typical business book. It is a thought-provoking read that articulates simply and clearly the principles that everyone can - and should - apply across all aspects of life, in the workplace and beyond. Making the world a fairer place is in our hands, and Beyond Good inspires you to strive for it, for the common good." * Tanya Andreasyan, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, FinTech Futures *"Look no further for a roadmap of the central challenges facing civil society at the intersection of technology, ethics, and economic inequality. Beyond Good reimagines what progress looks like within an empathy and inclusion context, and provides new insights into one of the most enduring social challenges: how can technology build equitable and sustainable economic prosperity? Beyond Good is the best place to start for an answer, because it forces us to rethink how innovation can be part of the solution." * Scott Astrada, adjunct professor of Law at Georgetown University Center, and digital civil society fellow, Stanford University, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society *"We need more books like this. Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer have clearly done their homework and used their lockdown time well. As we see more companies aiming to deliver sustainable and ethical services, this book, full of positive and practical real-world examples, aims to educate and inform us that it is possible to achieve results that are beyond good." * Simon Cocking, Chief Editor, Irish Tech News *"Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer provide a sweeping look at the trends that define our changing world, challenging leaders in financial services to direct their inherent power to shape a more equitable and empathetic global economy." * Catherine Harvey, US economic policy expert *"From financial inclusion to gender equality, from empathetic leadership to inclusive entrepreneurship, Beyond Good covers a wide spectrum of socially conscious strategies for business leaders. Abundance of detailed research and insights delivered with conviction makes it a compelling read. Some books leave us with something to think about. In contrast, Beyond Good will stay with us for a very long time by providing a roadmap to a more equal and sustainable world for generations to come. A must-read for every socially conscious mind." * Arun Krishnakumar, Partner at Delphos International *"Bradley Leimer and Theodora Lau smash through the boundaries of traditional business models, and expose us to a new purposeful, inclusive and empathetic world where everyone can genuinely still win together for the common good. Beyond Good will compel you to consider the real future of business, inspire you to be a part of it and to take action in your communities to make it happen. An absolutely essential read." * Paul Loberman, chief product officer, untied *"I love Theodora Lau's and Bradley Leimer's Beyond Good and recommend it to everyone in the start-up world wholeheartedly. We all should aim to advance technology and help its involved participants to fulfil the ultimate goal to drive the purpose-driven business technology revolution." * Spiros Margaris, Venture Capitalist and Advisor, Margaris Ventures *"Beyond Good is a timely and essential read for global financial service executives. Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer persuasively show that now - more than ever - is the time for business leaders to play a crucial role in tackling our most pressing societal challenges and engage in significant commercial opportunities that do well by doing good. This book is an invaluable resource for all those inspired to harness technology innovation to build a fairer and more inclusive financial system." * Sarah Mogenstern, Venture Partner, Flourish Ventures *"Acting upon a sense of broader purpose is instinctual. We evolved with basic instincts to band together and act in the common good. The common economic models in play just don't pass the smell test as sustainable. Beyond Good deconstructs and then reconstructs a better way forward. There is a strong theme of interconnectivity throughout this book that makes a strong case for empathy and awareness of how our choices and strategies never happen in a vacuum. We can choose to forge a path that leaves in its wake a positive impact, or we can choose a path of zero-sum gain. Throughout this read, I was frequently able to make connections to tangible ways that I and our organization can coalesce around a better way forward." * Curt Queyrouze, President TAB Bank *"Beyond Good reminds us that behind every company doing well are passionate people who are doing good. Today's seemingly impossible challenges can be met by us, if we're brave enough to act. For those in financial services, the call to action is clear: when you create a strong culture that leads with empathy and pair it with today's technology, you are uniquely positioned to make a positive difference. You can lead with purpose and build your own success!" * Matthew Sekol, Industry Executive, Capital Markets, Microsoft *"There are many themes of the 21st century that resonate in Beyond Good - a more inclusive society, addressing the climate emergency, creating a better world and more - all enabled by technology, governmental and financial market change. This book is an essential guide to rethinking our world for the good of society and the planet. In other words, beyond good to beautiful. Who could ignore that? Thoroughly recommended." * Chris Skinner, Chief Executive Officer, The Finanser Ltd *"An inspiring meditation on the many ways we can take action to make a mark on the world. Reading Beyond Good will leave you wanting to be an empathetic leader who champions efforts that address big societal problems, like economic inequalities and ageism. As Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer write: Our work means something more than a value exchange for money." * Mary Wisniewski, Banking Editor, Bankrate *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Changing tides; Chapter - 02: Foundations of inclusion; Chapter - 03: Forces of disruption; Chapter - 04: A renewed business model; Chapter - 05: Serving the forgotten; Chapter - 06: The profit conundrum; Chapter - 07: Leadership for good; Chapter - 08: A way forward; Chapter - 09: Moving hearts and mindsets (to action); Chapter - 10: Principles of Beyond Good; Chapter - 11: References;

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Book SynopsisWhen the winners of today can be dethroned by a surprise new entrant tomorrow, how do you ensure you stay on top? The world has changed, and the leaders of the future are those who embrace disruption and make their own rules. Rule Breaker is a manifesto for a new wave of leadership. One that operates in flatter workplaces where command and control doesn't work, and where people are entrusted with powerful purpose that grows businesses and communities. Award-winning entrepreneur, Jackie Fast, details how we have got here and why a whole new generation of workers is moving away from traditional models of work. Rule Breaker shows you how businesses like Kylie Cosmetics, M.92 and Beats can tap into a purposeful and engaged community of talent, harnessing true diversity and collaboration. To remain a highly successful leader in a future of radical change, you need to do more than fly the flag at the top of the podium supported by those beneath you. You must join the frontline and pave the way. Throw away the rule book, encourage rebelliousness, ask questions and lead by example.Trade Review"Breaking the rules has moved from being a risky thing to do to becoming a responsible thing to do. I have no doubt that positive, professional rule breaking is undoubtedly the next essential skill of the 21st century, and Rule Breaker is the definitive guidebook on how to it with the courage, ethics and imagination that could lead leaders to the breakthroughs we all need." * Sam Conniff Allende, author of Be More Pirate, co-founder, Livity *"What a white-knuckle ride! Jackie Fast has created a book which leaves you breathless. This book demonstrates with precise clarity both why and how we can ditch the conventional wisdom which serves us no longer. The pace of change has been fierce in this new era, reaching a crescendo in 2020. As leaders, we need to be equal to that change. Rule Breaker is your roadmap to delivering that change. The stimulating combination of personal experience and real-life case studies gives clear direction on how we can all adopt a growth mindset, be rebellious, be more agile and lead by example. When you put this book down, you feel you are letting yourself down if you don't rush out immediately and make a difference. Truly inspirational and a must-read for all aspiring leaders in business, in public service, in society; in fact, in all walks of life. This book sets the leadership standard for at least the next decade." * John Stapleton, co-Founder of New Covent Garden Soup Co & Little Dish, the Authentic Entrepreneur *"Bedtime reading this is not. This book will get your mind racing and entrepreneurial spirit rising as it not only confirms what you had been thinking about the world in which we live and operate but gives practical advice on what you can actually do about it. There is no guide for those who innovate. Until now, that is. Jackie Fast gives real advice drawn from personal experience and subjective analysis to help you navigate a fast-paced and changing world. To break the rules, you need to know the rules. This book will help you decide which ones to break and which ones to make. No one can predict the future. No matter how brilliant at your job you may be. But you can prepare for a world in which everything has changed by knowing your own mind. Jackie Fast will help you clarify your thoughts, gain confidence and give you a chance to achieve your potential. And there aren't many books that can make that claim!" * James Max, TalkRADIO presenter, FT columnist and business advisor *"Full of brilliant zesty stories, this book is captivating to read and leaves you ready to take on the world." * Bruce Daisley, former vice-president, Twitter, bestselling author the Joy of Work *"Jackie Fast is an essential analyst of what makes leadership work, disruption effective and rule breakers prevail. Nobody who wants to understand the way the modern world works should miss this book." * Matthew d'Ancona, editor and partner, Tortoise Media *"Jackie Fast traces the new perspective on business structures and rules brought about by the internet, fostering a new breed of entrepreneurs and leaders. Well researched and enjoyable, this is a playbook for how to achieve success in the new era by inspiring the inner rebel in you to go their own way. A must-read for anyone looking to do things differently!" * Claude Littner, professor, entrepreneur, advisor to Lord Sugar, The Apprentice (UK) *"This is not only a fresh, unique perspective on leadership, it is the perspective on leadership we need. Jackie Fast's ability to recognize and convey what a modern leader is capable of leaves you nodding your head with an intense urge to underline every gem of information. Highly recommend!" * Lauryn Evarts Bosstick, founder, The Skinny Confidential *"To be successful in the current climate, organizations need to be authentic. They need to have a point of view on the important topics affecting all of us. Why? Because people no longer want a transactional relationship with a company simply based on the buying of products and services; they want a more meaningful connection grounded in shared values and a purpose beyond profit. To make this transition, leaders must choose to do something different, something disruptive. In this thought-provoking book, Jackie Fast shows why the old rules need to be broken and how leaders can act now to build the type of organization their customers really want." * Jeff Dodds, Chief Operating Officer, Virgin Media *"Chuck the old rules out. Leaders of the future are forging their own paths. Who better to explain the new dynamics of leadership than Jackie Fast, embodying the spirit of a renegade maverick. As the world shifts, what counts now is your ability to bet on yourself, think outside of the box and courageously inspire others to come with you. Sharing a set of lessons learned, and creating a much-needed playbook now, Jackie Fast will bring out the brave leader in you." * Lisa Winning, tech entrepreneur *"There is far too little business journalism for business people. We've sadly settled for books about trading or "levelling up" or backwards-looking navel gazing. But Jackie Fast fixes the problem. Rule Breaker explores a seismic mind shift driving business in the 21st century, changing the way we think about business. She offers a Rosetta Stone to help us key into the next era of innovation, technology and even the future of business." * Cory Johnson, Managing Member, Epistrophy Capital *"Filled with insightful stories on how businesses of the future are defying a history of old management tactics that no longer work. If you are wanting to make an impact, put this on your required reading list!" * Yao Huang, founder, The Hatchery *"An exciting and valuable book on how, in these times of rapid changes, leaders must redefine their role and draw on different sets of skills to be able to face the future. The biggest risk a leader is facing today is in fact not the lack of skills, but a complacent attitude about skills previously acquired that no longer fit the present world. Therefore, being a rebellious leader is not the prerogative of a few outliers; it should become the mainstream thought on how to shape a vision and inspire for change. Rule Breaker fosters the kind of constructive debate and fresh thinking that breaks the status quo and will enable this new type of leaders to face the challenges ahead." * Marina Tognetti, founder and Chief Executive Officer, mYngle *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - Part One: The Past; Chapter - 01: Business unusual; Chapter - 02: I built it in my bedroom; Chapter - 03: ‘Move fast and break things’ is broken; Section - Part Two: THE PRESENT; Chapter - 04: Replacing the C-suite; Chapter - 05: Earning the right to lead; Chapter - 06: Complacency is not an option; Section - Part Three: THE FUTURE; Chapter - 07: The future is collaborative; Chapter - 08: The future is here;

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Book SynopsisWhen the winners of today can be dethroned by a surprise new entrant tomorrow, how do you ensure you stay on top? The world has changed, and the leaders of the future are those who embrace disruption and make their own rules. Rule Breaker is a manifesto for a new wave of leadership. One that operates in flatter workplaces where command and control doesn't work, and where people are entrusted with powerful purpose that grows businesses and communities. Award-winning entrepreneur, Jackie Fast, details how we have got here and why a whole new generation of workers is moving away from traditional models of work. Rule Breaker shows you how businesses like Kylie Cosmetics, M.92 and Beats can tap into a purposeful and engaged community of talent, harnessing true diversity and collaboration. To remain a highly successful leader in a future of radical change, you need to do more than fly the flag at the top of the podium supported by those beneath you. You must join the frontline and pave the way. Throw away the rule book, encourage rebelliousness, ask questions and lead by example.Trade Review"Breaking the rules has moved from being a risky thing to do to becoming a responsible thing to do. I have no doubt that positive, professional rule breaking is undoubtedly the next essential skill of the 21st century, and Rule Breaker is the definitive guidebook on how to it with the courage, ethics and imagination that could lead leaders to the breakthroughs we all need." * Sam Conniff Allende, author of Be More Pirate, co-founder, Livity *"What a white-knuckle ride! Jackie Fast has created a book which leaves you breathless. This book demonstrates with precise clarity both why and how we can ditch the conventional wisdom which serves us no longer. The pace of change has been fierce in this new era, reaching a crescendo in 2020. As leaders, we need to be equal to that change. Rule Breaker is your roadmap to delivering that change. The stimulating combination of personal experience and real-life case studies gives clear direction on how we can all adopt a growth mindset, be rebellious, be more agile and lead by example. When you put this book down, you feel you are letting yourself down if you don't rush out immediately and make a difference. Truly inspirational and a must-read for all aspiring leaders in business, in public service, in society; in fact, in all walks of life. This book sets the leadership standard for at least the next decade." * John Stapleton, co-Founder of New Covent Garden Soup Co & Little Dish, the Authentic Entrepreneur *"Bedtime reading this is not. This book will get your mind racing and entrepreneurial spirit rising as it not only confirms what you had been thinking about the world in which we live and operate but gives practical advice on what you can actually do about it. There is no guide for those who innovate. Until now, that is. Jackie Fast gives real advice drawn from personal experience and subjective analysis to help you navigate a fast-paced and changing world. To break the rules, you need to know the rules. This book will help you decide which ones to break and which ones to make. No one can predict the future. No matter how brilliant at your job you may be. But you can prepare for a world in which everything has changed by knowing your own mind. Jackie Fast will help you clarify your thoughts, gain confidence and give you a chance to achieve your potential. And there aren't many books that can make that claim!" * James Max, TalkRADIO presenter, FT columnist and business advisor *"Full of brilliant zesty stories, this book is captivating to read and leaves you ready to take on the world." * Bruce Daisley, former vice-president, Twitter, bestselling author the Joy of Work *"Jackie Fast is an essential analyst of what makes leadership work, disruption effective and rule breakers prevail. Nobody who wants to understand the way the modern world works should miss this book." * Matthew d'Ancona, editor and partner, Tortoise Media *"Jackie Fast traces the new perspective on business structures and rules brought about by the internet, fostering a new breed of entrepreneurs and leaders. Well researched and enjoyable, this is a playbook for how to achieve success in the new era by inspiring the inner rebel in you to go their own way. A must-read for anyone looking to do things differently!" * Claude Littner, professor, entrepreneur, advisor to Lord Sugar, The Apprentice (UK) *"This is not only a fresh, unique perspective on leadership, it is the perspective on leadership we need. Jackie Fast's ability to recognize and convey what a modern leader is capable of leaves you nodding your head with an intense urge to underline every gem of information. Highly recommend!" * Lauryn Evarts Bosstick, founder, The Skinny Confidential *"To be successful in the current climate, organizations need to be authentic. They need to have a point of view on the important topics affecting all of us. Why? Because people no longer want a transactional relationship with a company simply based on the buying of products and services; they want a more meaningful connection grounded in shared values and a purpose beyond profit. To make this transition, leaders must choose to do something different, something disruptive. In this thought-provoking book, Jackie Fast shows why the old rules need to be broken and how leaders can act now to build the type of organization their customers really want." * Jeff Dodds, Chief Operating Officer, Virgin Media *"Chuck the old rules out. Leaders of the future are forging their own paths. Who better to explain the new dynamics of leadership than Jackie Fast, embodying the spirit of a renegade maverick. As the world shifts, what counts now is your ability to bet on yourself, think outside of the box and courageously inspire others to come with you. Sharing a set of lessons learned, and creating a much-needed playbook now, Jackie Fast will bring out the brave leader in you." * Lisa Winning, tech entrepreneur *"There is far too little business journalism for business people. We've sadly settled for books about trading or "levelling up" or backwards-looking navel gazing. But Jackie Fast fixes the problem. Rule Breaker explores a seismic mind shift driving business in the 21st century, changing the way we think about business. She offers a Rosetta Stone to help us key into the next era of innovation, technology and even the future of business." * Cory Johnson, Managing Member, Epistrophy Capital *"Filled with insightful stories on how businesses of the future are defying a history of old management tactics that no longer work. If you are wanting to make an impact, put this on your required reading list!" * Yao Huang, founder, The Hatchery *"An exciting and valuable book on how, in these times of rapid changes, leaders must redefine their role and draw on different sets of skills to be able to face the future. The biggest risk a leader is facing today is in fact not the lack of skills, but a complacent attitude about skills previously acquired that no longer fit the present world. Therefore, being a rebellious leader is not the prerogative of a few outliers; it should become the mainstream thought on how to shape a vision and inspire for change. Rule Breaker fosters the kind of constructive debate and fresh thinking that breaks the status quo and will enable this new type of leaders to face the challenges ahead." * Marina Tognetti, founder and Chief Executive Officer, mYngle *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - Part One: The Past; Chapter - 01: Business unusual; Chapter - 02: I built it in my bedroom; Chapter - 03: ‘Move fast and break things’ is broken; Section - Part Two: THE PRESENT; Chapter - 04: Replacing the C-suite; Chapter - 05: Earning the right to lead; Chapter - 06: Complacency is not an option; Section - Part Three: THE FUTURE; Chapter - 07: The future is collaborative; Chapter - 08: The future is here;

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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - International Business Book category CATEGORY SILVER WINNER: Axiom Awards 2022 - Business Commentary Category The greatest challenge facing leaders is activating and actioning purpose based brands to the people who matter inside the company and out. Recent statistics prove that more than 87% of consumers would purchase a product because a company advocated for an issue they cared about, and more than two-thirds would refuse to do so if the company supported an issue contrary to their beliefs. We live in an age of activism - the conscious consumer is more socially aware than ever before, and this is reflected in their buying habits. Yet, activism on behalf of brands is lagging. While many claim to be 'purpose driven', far too often this purpose is relegated to a plaque above the CEO's desk, and never goes any further. Or, worse, the 'purpose' is transparently used as a marketing ploy, but never acted upon in any real way. Activate Brand Purpose shows readers how to transform their brand's purpose into meaningful action by sparking a company wide cultural movement, beginning internally and permeating externally. Regardless of whether your purpose is lofty and socially conscious, or all business, focus on galvanizing people, and they will respond if you can prove that you care about that purpose, and that you're working to realize it, rather than simply chasing the next dollar. This book contains a clearly explained, proven framework that will make this happen.Trade Review"Don't just babysit your brand. Honour and activate your brand to fit the environment." * Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple *"We're living in a world that requires leaders to think differently and create a new playbook for operating. There's never been a more important time to lead with purpose and learn from experts like Scott Goodson and Chip Walker." * Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO, Verizon *"Chip Walker and Scott Goodson tackle the toughest part of any purpose journey, which is also the most important one: How to convert wonderful words of a purpose statement into actual behaviour. A must-read for anyone wanting to make sure their purpose work truly connects and drives enduring change." * Amy Fuller, Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Accenture *"This book identifies a fundamental problem facing companies today: How to not merely talk about purpose but actually do it." * Ranjay Gulati, Professor, Harvard Business School *"It's no wonder business leaders are drawing their focus to how company purpose can play a larger role in their organization. They see that creating value for all stakeholders and society at large - not just financial gain for shareholders - means doing more. Done well, many are finding that doing good can also add to the bottom line, and the recommendations within this book share insight on how to activate on this now." * Matthew Lieberman, Chief Marketing Officer, PwC *"The purpose economy is upon us. This book puts forth a new competitive advantage, 'Movement Thinking', as a way to activate purpose for the people who matter inside and outside your company." * Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group *"Purpose unlocks the power of marketing to drive business growth. This book is a blueprint for its execution." * Susan Johnson, CMO, Prudential *"We can only solve the problems confronting society today - inequality, social injustice, sustainability, polarization - if businesses play a key role. And businesses can only play a role when they lead with purpose. To activate your credible purpose, read this book." * Susan Fournier, Dean, Boston University Questrom School of Business *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: A call to arms – How to activate purpose with Movement Thinking; Chapter - 02: The business case for activating purpose; Chapter - 03: Moving to Movement Thinking; Chapter - 04: Change the company with a movement, not a mandate; Chapter - 05: Movement Inside – Galvanizing the people that matter inside your brand; Chapter - 06: Movement Outside – New marketing, branding and advertising for a new customer culture; Chapter - 07: Purpose Power Index – New winners and laggards; Chapter - 08: How movement increases a merger’s chances of success; Chapter - 09: How Movement Thinking fosters collaboration; Chapter - 10: Mahindra Rise – A decade of movement; Chapter - 11: How to be a galvanizer;

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Book SynopsisEverywhere you look, there are signs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. R&D on leading digital technologies is conducted around the world, exploring novel technologies aimed at cyber-physical systems, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, 3D Printing, Virtual Reality, AI, and many more. With these rapid changes in technology comes social evolution and the potential for future social crises. Understanding Industry 4.0: AI, the Internet of Things, and the Future of Work looks to determine the most probable oncoming changes in key areas of the economy, to highlight the most important professions of the future, and to offer recommendations for their correct selection and successful mastering. Including sections on careers in education, medicine, R&D, and agriculture, among others, economics experts Bruno S. Sergi, Elena G. Popkova, Aleksei V. Bogoviz, and Tatiana N. Litvinova explore the vastly changing modern workplace and offer a guide to navigating through and adapting to this evolution. For researchers and students of management, economics, and business, this is an unmissable exploration of the new frontier of Industry 4.0.Trade ReviewEconomists discuss the Fourth Industrial Revolution, heralded by digital technology, and project what professional work will be like when it triumphs. They cover an overview of future professions in industry, future professions in agriculture, future professions in medicine, future professions in education, expected professions in body care and fitness, the key future professions in research and development, perspectives on future professions in transport and communication, and recommendations for successful modern workers. -- Copyright 2019 * Portland, OR *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Overview of Future Professions in Industry 1. Outlines of the Context for Industry 4.0 2. Future Professions in Industry 3. Map of Competences for Representatives of the Future Professions in Industry Part II: Future Professions in Agriculture 4. Future Outlines of Agriculture in the Agro-Industrial Complex 4.0 5. Future Professions in Agriculture 6. Map of Competences for Representatives of Future Professions in Agriculture Part III: Future Professions in Medicine 7. Future Outlines of Medicine at the Threshold of a Genetic Revolution 8. Future Professions in Medicine 9. Map of Competences for Representatives of Future Professions in Medicine Part IV: Future Planned Professions in Education 10. Future Outlines of Education in the Information Economy Age 11. Future Professions in Education 12. Map of Competences for Representatives of Future Professions in Education Part V: Expected Professions in Body Care and Fitness 13. Future Outlines of Body Care and Fitness 14. Future Professions in Body Care and Fitness 15. The Map of Competences for Representatives of Future Professions in Body Care and Fitness Part VI: The Key Future Professions in R&D 16. Future Outlines of R&D in the Context of the Formation of the Innovation Economy 17. Future Professions in R&D 18. The Map of Competences for Representatives of Future Professions in R&D Part VII: Perspectives on Future Professions in Transport and Communications 19. Future Outlines in Transport and Communications amid the Revolution in Information and Communication technologies 20. Future Professions in Transport and Communications 21. The Map of Competences for Representatives of Future Professions in Transport and Communications Part VIII: Recommendations for Successful Modern Workers 22. Common Characteristics and Competences that are Necessary for All Future Professions 23. The Concept of Lifelong Learning as the Basis for Mastering Future Professions 24. A Perspective Algorithm for the Selection and Mastering of Future Professions 25. The Model of State Management of the Processes for Selection and Mastering of Future Professions Conclusion

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This cutting edge book introduces the origins and consequences of digital platforms, examining how artificial intelligence-enabled digital platforms collect and process data from and about users by providing social media and e-commerce services. Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller compare and contrast neoclassical, institutional and critical political economy approaches. They show how uneven power relationships between platform operators and their users are analysed in different economic traditions. Key features include: analysis of economic and public values provides a foundation for platform regulation examines the impacts of platforms on the media industry challenges claims of the inevitability of platform dominance discusses key challenges, including: artificial intelligence, data sharing and competition in the digital economy. This concise book will be indispensable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication studies, innovation studies and economics, particularly those focusing on platform economics.Trade Review'This Advanced Introduction provides a much-needed analysis of digital platforms and their major influence on society. What makes Mansell and Steinmueller's book stand out is that it looks at platforms not only through the lens of neo-classical economics, but also of institutional economics and critical political economy, comprehensively demonstrating how these theories differ in their assessment of both consequences of platforms and the need for regulation and non-commercial alternatives.' --Manuel Puppis, University of Fribourg, Switzerland'This is a timely and useful overview of the multifaceted roles of digital platforms by two leading experts in the field. The book presents an insightful discussion of three different economic perspectives on the benefits and dangers of digital platforms. It also addresses the most critical issues concerning users, policy makers, platform operators and society as a whole, identifying reforms that may be necessary. Highly recommended for an understanding of the challenges ahead.' --Franco Malerba, Bocconi University, Italy'Digital platforms are the dominant new business model of the digital economy. With Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics, Mansell and Steinmueller have written a wonderfully accessible and insightful treatise which will be extremely valuable to all students who want to understand digital platforms' economic mechanisms and their social consequences.' --Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Digital platform origins and novelty 3. Economic analysis of platforms 4. Technologies and datafication practices 5. Self-regulation and alternative business models 6. Policy, regulation and alternative platform provision 7. Global perspectives 8. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This cutting edge book introduces the origins and consequences of digital platforms, examining how artificial intelligence-enabled digital platforms collect and process data from and about users by providing social media and e-commerce services. Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller compare and contrast neoclassical, institutional and critical political economy approaches. They show how uneven power relationships between platform operators and their users are analysed in different economic traditions. Key features include: analysis of economic and public values provides a foundation for platform regulation examines the impacts of platforms on the media industry challenges claims of the inevitability of platform dominance discusses key challenges, including: artificial intelligence, data sharing and competition in the digital economy. This concise book will be indispensable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication studies, innovation studies and economics, particularly those focusing on platform economics.Trade Review'This Advanced Introduction provides a much-needed analysis of digital platforms and their major influence on society. What makes Mansell and Steinmueller's book stand out is that it looks at platforms not only through the lens of neo-classical economics, but also of institutional economics and critical political economy, comprehensively demonstrating how these theories differ in their assessment of both consequences of platforms and the need for regulation and non-commercial alternatives.' --Manuel Puppis, University of Fribourg, Switzerland'This is a timely and useful overview of the multifaceted roles of digital platforms by two leading experts in the field. The book presents an insightful discussion of three different economic perspectives on the benefits and dangers of digital platforms. It also addresses the most critical issues concerning users, policy makers, platform operators and society as a whole, identifying reforms that may be necessary. Highly recommended for an understanding of the challenges ahead.' --Franco Malerba, Bocconi University, Italy'Digital platforms are the dominant new business model of the digital economy. With Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics, Mansell and Steinmueller have written a wonderfully accessible and insightful treatise which will be extremely valuable to all students who want to understand digital platforms' economic mechanisms and their social consequences.' --Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Digital platform origins and novelty 3. Economic analysis of platforms 4. Technologies and datafication practices 5. Self-regulation and alternative business models 6. Policy, regulation and alternative platform provision 7. Global perspectives 8. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIdentifying the origins of innovation and project management, this unique Handbook explains why and how the two fields have grown and developed as separate disciplines, highlighting how and why they are now converging. It explores the theoretical and practical connections between the management of innovation and projects, examining the close relationship between the disciplines.Chapters introduce new research examining how organisations manage innovative projects to compete in global markets and tackle some of the immense economic, social and environmental challenges facing societies in the 21st century. Leading scholars in the field examine the management of innovative projects in various forms and across diverse contexts, including R&D, new product development, agile, collaboration, trust and ambidexterity. The Handbook outlines efforts to cross-fertilise ideas from innovation and project management, share and create new concepts, and borrow theories from other disciplines to assist empirical research and develop a more integrated research agenda, offering practical guidance on how to manage innovative projects in real-world settings.Comprehensive and invaluable, this Handbook is a critical read for innovation management and project management scholars and students. Practitioners in both fields interested in developing their professional skills and acquiring thought leadership in a converging field will also benefit greatly from reading this.Trade Review‘We live in a world of projects. This Handbook illuminates that world, demonstrating how to better catalyze, organize, and sustain the innovation processes embedded in project management. Reuniting separate streams of project and innovation management while incorporating the latest thinking on ecosystems and digital transformation, the Handbook will reinvigorate current experts while exciting newcomers. Highly recommended.’ -- John Paul MacDuffie, University of Pennsylvania, US‘This Handbook provides an essential reference in the field of Innovation Project Management, grounded on a comprehensive synthesis of past works and opening stimulating perspective for further research. It shows how innovation project management contributes to key questions in management science and addresses critical issues for companies and society.’ -- Pascal Le Masson, Mines Paris – PSL University, France‘Whether using projects to manage innovation or seeking to make any project more innovative, this essential Handbook builds on a diverse, scholarly foundation to bring a wealth of practical, integrated insights for researchers and managers. Having worked in this area for 30 years, I still learned much by reading it.’ -- Tyson Browning, Texas Christian University (TCU), US‘Our world's grandest challenges urgently need transformative innovations that only major programmes can deliver at scale. This Handbook provides an essential reference for how we can better adapt and vary project thinking to make such advances in ways that better serve those we seek to uplift.’ -- Daniel Armanios, BT Professor of Major Programme Management, University of Oxford, UK‘This Handbook provides an integrative perspective on decades of separate innovation and project management research. The introductory chapter offers novel frameworks that guide but are also informed by 22 following chapters contributed by global experts. It will be a trusted reference as well as a guide for further integrative research.’ -- Robert A. Burgelman, Stanford Graduate School of Business, US‘The time is ripe to connect the study of projects and their management more tightly to other domains of management research. The new Elgar Handbook on Innovation and Project Management does so with regard to perhaps the most obvious but also by far most important field: innovation management. The Handbook excels in doing so, not only with regard to past and present, but also the future of research in both fields of study.’ -- Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Karl T. Ulrich 1 Introduction: building bridges between innovation and project management research 1 Andrew Davies, Sylvain Lenfle, Christoph H. Loch and Christophe Midler PART I CONVERGING AND INTEGRATING 2 Bridging project studies and innovation studies: a meta-theoretical approach and research agenda 36 Joana Geraldi and Jonas Söderlund 3 Corporate entrepreneurship and project management 60 Valentine Georget and Rémi Maniak 4 The converging nature of innovation and project management: process, contingency and strategy 80 Vered Holzmann and Aaron Shenhar 5 It’s all a bit fuzzy? The front end in project and innovation management 101 Michael A. Lewis, Joseph W. Harrison and Jens K. Roehrich 6 “A disputed project identity”: ambiguity and hybridization of exploration and exploitation in complex projects 125 Stéphanie Tillement, Frédéric Garcias and Florence Charue-Duboc 7 Innovation projects in a global world: bridging global innovation management and project management 149 Christophe Midler and Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini PART II BUILDING AND EXTENDING 8 Corporate innovation strategies and multi-project management on lineages and ambidextrous programmes 168 Rémi Maniak and Christophe Midler 9 Exploratory projects: the state of the art and a research agenda 186 Sylvain Lenfle 10 Managing unforeseeable uncertainty through learning 201 Christoph H. Loch, Svenja C. Sommer and Mengtong Jiang 11 Success factors of project portfolio management and their influence on innovation success 219 Alexander Kock and Hans Georg Gemünden 12 Innovation in project-based organizations 232 Jan van den Ende and Floor Blindenbach-Driessen PART III IMPORTING AND CROSS-FERTILIZING 13 Collaboration and trust in innovative projects 244 Niels Noorderhaven 14 A cultural evolution theory of balancing innovative and routine projects 258 Christoph H. Loch, Stylianos Kavadias and Svenja C. Sommer 15 Organizing projects for social innovation 274 Stephan Manning and Stanislav Vavilov 16 From “lonely projects” to orchestrating project innovation ecosystems 294 Samuel C. MacAulay, Andrew Davies and Mark Dodgson 17 Value management of innovation projects: contemporary challenges and perspectives 308 Sophie Hooge and Sylvain Lenfle 18 Blending novelty and tradition in creative projects: how robust project design and conventionality shape the appeal of operatic productions 333 Giulia Cancellieri, Gino Cattani and Simone Ferriani PART IV CASES AND CONTEXTS 19 Systems engineering as foundation and target for complex system innovation 356 Stephen B. Johnson 20 Corporate innovation and agile project management 375 Kate Davis and Jeffrey K. Pinto 21 Projects, capabilities and innovation: Rome’s Jubilee as a vanguard project for the Italian Civil Protection Department 393 Eugenia Cacciatori and Andrea Prencipe 22 Digital project capabilities and innovation: insights from the emerging use of platforms in construction 408 Jennifer Whyte, Luigi Mosca and Shanjing Zhou (Alexander) 23 Innovation and big science projects 423 Mark Dodgson and David Gann Index 435

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Book SynopsisIllustrating the interdisciplinary implications for research on creativity development, this book focuses on the new concept of 'knowledge differences' that arise between people, organizations and various phenomena. It describes how these key differences create boundaries knowledge, a dynamic process that accelerates innovation. Chapters offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic to stimulate knowledge convergence across dissimilar fields of research, including business studies, economics, psychology and the arts. Following Arthur Koestler's theory of creativity, this insightful book shows how bisociation - the recognition of similarity in the collision of two distinct concepts - can be expressed through boundaries vision and boundaries knowledge, applying these twin concepts to the field of business and management. Focusing on literature related to strategy theory and knowledge creation theory, the book presents a theoretical framework for applying boundaries knowledge and boundaries vision to dynamic capabilities and knowledge creation in business innovation. Pioneering new frameworks for innovation, this book offers key insights for students and researchers of creativity development across various business-related fields. It will also benefit business leaders and managers, describing a key path to knowledge creation in professional environments. Contributors include: M. Kodama, M. Kimura, Y. Takano, T. Oka, T. Yasuda, N. Tokoro, Y. Mizukami, M. YamamotoTable of ContentsContents: Preface and Introduction Mitsuru Kodama 1. Innovation through Boundaries Vision and Dynamic Capabilities - The Strategic Management Perspective Mitsuru Kodama 2. Developing Boundaries Knowledge (Knowing) - The Knowledge Creation Perspective Mitsuru Kodama 3. Knowledge Convergence and Design-Driven Innovation through Boundaries Knowledge - New Knowledge from the Knowledge Convergence and Design-Driven Innovation Perspectives Mitsuru Kodama and Masashi Kimura 4. Product and Service Innovation through Boundaries Vision and Boundaries Knowledge - New Knowledge from the Corporate Strategy and Innovation Perspective Mitsuru Kodama and Yoshiki Takano 5. Interpersonal Cognitive Traits and Interactional Traits that Support Boundaries Vision, the Basis of Group Creativity Takashi Oka and Mana Yamamoto 6. The Process of Creating Knowledge between Different Actors in Co-Creation Ba - A Case Study of the Panasonic Smart City Project Nobuyuki Tokoro 7. Regional Revitalization through Cultural Innovation and Creativity Development Takehiko Yasuda 8. Product Innovation through Boundaries Vision and Boundaries Knowledge - New Knowledge from the Corporate Transformation and Innovation Perspective Mitsuru Kodama and Yuji Mizukami 9. Boundaries Knowledge through Boundaries Vision Creation - Driving Dynamic Capabilities and the SECI Process Mitsuru Kodama 10. Implications and Conclusion Mitsuru Kodama Index Index

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Book SynopsisRapid advances in the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution pose a critical challenge to large, complex organizations both in the private and public sectors. The national defense ecosystem is no exception. The US Department of Defense has launched a number of efforts directed towards fostering creative and entrepreneurial problem solving, while evolving better practices to absorb external innovations. Defense Technological Innovation describes the emerging paradigm for innovation at the US Department of Defense, and the consequential impacts on its stakeholders. Leveraging a combination of prior research, archival data, first-person observations and interviews, the authors identify practices and themes characterizing the key trends in defense innovation, describe current organizational approaches and practices, and develop a theoretical framework that elucidates the competencies required to underwrite defense innovation objectives. The findings therein are relevant to any large, technology-driven organization contending with the implications of rapid change in the high-tech landscape. Scholars interested in the broad areas of technology innovation, national security, defense policy, and organizational change now have a book that addresses the problem of defense innovation. It will also appeal to scholars and policymakers in strategy, security studies, international affairs, and policy.Trade Review'The authors have uniquely captured the challenges and key drivers of the defense innovation ecosystem in the US - both its current weaknesses and strengths. The ability of our defense infrastructure to integrate talent and technology from non-traditional sources is vital to our future national security. The extraordinary pace of innovation and the growing capability of our strategic competitors make their recommendations timely and a must read for any leader and organization interested in creating a culture of innovation.' --Major General Boe Young (Retired), Commanding General, 75th Innovation Command, 2015-2019 and Army Representative to the Defense Innovation Board, 2018-2019, US'This well-researched book convincingly demonstrates the importance of bringing Open Innovation to the defense sector, while adopting a clear-eyed view of the many challenges in doing so. As innovation accelerates, our military needs to open up its innovation sources, speed up its procurement systems, and adapt its administrative processes, in order to meet the challenges of our near-peer rivals in the 21st century.' --Henry Chesbrough, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface 1. The National Defense Ecosystem: Context, Challenges and Opportunities 2. Innovation and National Security 3. The New Dynamics of Technological Innovation 4. The Defense Innovation Cycle and a Framework for DOD Innovation Ecosystem 5. Defense Innovation in Practice 6. Implications for Defense Innovation Policy and Practice Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful Handbook scrutinizes alternative concepts and approaches to the dominant economic or industrial theories of innovation. Providing an assessment of these approaches, it questions the absence of these neglected types of innovation and suggests diverse theories. International contributors provide a historical and critical analysis of all aspects of innovation, answering important questions such as ‘are we just reinventing the wheel?’. Examining concepts that have existed for over a decade, chapters provide clarity on answering this question and investigate whether progress is actually being made. Split into seven parts, starting with the visions of innovation and reviewing multiple approaches and types of innovation, as well as utilising case studies to illustrate theories, this timely book provides an excellent update to this field. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers of business management and public policy as well as policy makers and stakeholders.Trade Review‘This Handbook truly deserves its designation as such. It provides a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of different conceptual meanings, theories, usages and interpretations of “innovation”. Far beyond the most familiar association with technology and industry, the reader is introduced to “social“, “responsible“, “sustainable“, “disruptive“ and other variations of innovation, their respective rationales, theoretical underpinnings, philosophical and policy implications. This collection of contributions by well-respected authors is a fascinating and unique attempt to capture the many paths covered by “innovation“ as a traveling concept.’ -- Peter Weingart, Bielefeld University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation 1 Benoît Godin, Gérald Gaglio and Dominique Vinck PART I VISIONS OF INNOVATION 1 Innovation theology 11 Benoît Godin 2 Imaginaries of innovation 23 Harro van Lente PART II THEORIZING INNOVATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE FOUNDATIONS 3 Theories of innovation 38 Benoît Godin 4 Economic approaches to industrial technological innovation 59 Irwin Feller PART III ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO INNOVATION 5 Mapping innovation diversity 79 Mónica Edwards-Schachter 6 Social innovation: contested understandings of social change 106 Cornelius Schubert 7 Sustainable innovation: analysing literature lineages 122 Frank Boons and Riza Batista-Navarro 8 Responsible innovation: challenging an alternative 135 Lucien von Schomberg PART IV ALTERNATIVE TYPES OF INNOVATION 9 User-centred innovation: from innovative users to user centred programmes 148 Bastien Tavner 10 Open innovation: the open society and its entrepreneurial bias 162 Tiago Brandão 11 Disruptive innovation: an organizational strategy and a technological concept 182 Darryl Cressman 12 Common innovation: the oldest species of innovation? 197 G.M. Peter Swann 13 Grassroots innovation: mainstreaming the discourse of informal sector 212 Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh and Hemant Kumar 14 Frugal innovation: reaching an ‘empowered’ developing-countries end-user 233 Céline Cholez and Pascale Trompette PART V SUPPORTING INNOVATION: REFRAMING THE INSTRUMENTS 15 X-innovation and international organizations narratives 252 Carolina Bagattolli 16 Transformative innovation policy: a novel approach? 276 Markus Grillitsch, Teis Hansen and Stine Madsen 17 Business innovation measurement: history and evolution 292 Giulio Perani PART VI IMMUNE DISCIPLINES AND FORGOTTEN THEORIZATIONS 18 Religion and innovation: charting the territory 310 Boris Rähme 19 Anthropology of and for innovation 334 Ulrich Ufer and Alexandra Hausstein 20 Philosophical reflections on the concept of innovation 354 Vincent Blok PART VII THEORIZING THE THEORIES 21 Ideology, engine or regime. Styles of critique and theories of innovation 369 Brice Laurent 22 Collateral innovation: renewing theory from case-studies 387 Gérald Gaglio and Dominique Vinck Conclusion to the Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation 404 Gérald Gaglio, Dominique Vinck and Benoît Godin Index

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Book SynopsisIncreased emphasis on the links between regional diversity and regional knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship highlights the need for a focus on the spatial aspects of these multifaceted, dynamic relationships in order to improve our understanding. By means of a conceptual approach, this timely book illustrates the links between innovation and economic development through the role of space. This thought-provoking book addresses the questions regarding diversity, innovation and clusters that require further investigation and analysis. Chapters written by expert contributors bring together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical studies to consider issues such as how spatial diversity affects collaboration, knowledge and innovation; how innovation arises in various locations; how innovative approaches can be identified for local regeneration; and how the growing visibility and importance of start-up companies in the global economy can be analysed. Diversity, Innovation and Clusters will be a key resource for students and academics researching in the fields of economic geography, regional economics, innovation and entrepreneurship. This book provides insights that will be crucial for providing policy makers, planners and consultants with a more comprehensive decision-making platform by utilising spatial perspectives as a driving force for economic growth and development. Contributors include: T. Arvemo, D. Bartlett, K. Berg, I. Bernhard, U. Gråsjö, T. Grønning, M. Imase, I. Jonsson, C. Karlsson, N. Kishida, U. Lundh Snis, M. McKelvey, T. Maeno, L. Mósesdóttir, T. Mroczkowski, G.F. Mulligan, M. Okuyama, A.K. Olsson, K. Sakakura, T. YasuiTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: diversity, innovation and clusters – spatial perspectives 1 Iréne Bernhard, Urban Gräsjö and Charlie Karlsson 2 A high-tech trajectory in a commodity-dependent economy: modern biotechnology in Norway 11 Terje Grønning 3 Tentative indices for regional economic development: an exploratory study using Swedish municipal data 44 Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gräsjö 4 Inclusive place innovation as a means for local community regeneration 57 Iréne Bernhard, Anna Karin Olsson and Ulrika Lundh Snis 5 Patent generation in US metropolitan areas 81 Gordon F. Mulligan 6 Theorizing transformative innovations: the role of agency in real critical junctures 102 Lilja Mósesdóttir and Ivar Jonsson 7 Exploring industrial PhD students and perceptions of their impact on firm innovation 125 Karin Berg and Maureen McKelvey 8 Globalizing startups: business development organizations in the Bay Area 157 David Bartlett and Tomasz Mroczkowski 9 As an element of the regional innovation cluster, the citizen/ non-profit sector fulfills the “seedbed function” of the new industry 186 Masashi Imase 10 The factors in the establishment of the Shizuoka sake brewing cluster: regional human resources enabling open innovation 207 Nobuyuki Kishida 11 The empirical study on the emergence and diffusion process of design-driven innovation initiated by knowledge creation: from the field study in the industrial cluster of the Sumida Ward, Tokyo 230 Mutsumi Okuyama, Toshiyuki Yasui, Takashi Maneo and Kyosuke Sakakura Index 259

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses technology policy and innovation policy from an international perspective, with a particular emphasis on the policies of the United States and the United Kingdom. The importance of these policy areas, as well as their relationship to one another, is a unifying theme throughout, and this relationship is illustrated through an integrating policy framework.Private sector and public sector investments in R&D are posited to be the relevant target variables for technology policy, and vehicles to provide incentives for making each more effective are discussed along with suggestive information about how effective incentives have actually been. Consideration is given to the unintended consequences of technology policy. Also emphasized is the environment in which technology policy is promulgated and its relationship to a global innovation ecosystem. Innovation policy is a consequence of technology policy, and the innovation policies of various countries are also discussed.Technology and Innovation Policy will benefit academic researchers, senior scientists, innovation and technology policy makers, and graduate students who seek a deeper understanding of the relationship between technology and innovation policies from an international perspective.Trade Review‘This publication is definitely a wonderful introduction for starters who have hardly any experience or have just launched their studies on technology and innovation policies. For readers with related background foundation or expertise and who want to extend their professional knowledge in this field, this publication must be an ideally enlightening resources and will serve as an inspiring guide for future explorations. Overall, this book will significantly help the readers gain a profound comprehension of the relationship between technology and innovation policies from an international perspective.’ -- Yuan Ren, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations‘A must-read, this book opens the discussion on the important differences between the purposes of technology policy and innovation policy. It walks the reader from the definitions of innovation and technology, to concrete exploration and reflections on how technology policy influences innovation policy.’ -- Sara Amoroso, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Spain'This book raises a key problem. Why is technology policy more effective in some countries than in others? And it provides an articulated reply: the effectiveness of technology policies depends upon their ability to implement a ''Technology policy ecosystem'' that empowers the interdependence of the different elements of each system and their sequential interaction in the innovation process. Scholars, students, managers and policy makers should read it carefully.' -- Cristiano Antonelli, University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Technology and innovation policy: setting the stage 2. Technology policies to enhance private-sector R&D 3. The effectiveness of technology policy 4. Unanticipated consequences of technology policy 5. The technology policy environment 6. Technology policies to leverage public-sector R&D 7. Global innovation systems 8. Toward a technology/innovation policy ecosystem Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the process of university collaboration from the perspective of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book offers an in-depth examination of the collaboration process, dispelling the myth of the disengagement of these firms. Andrew Johnston and Robert Huggins present a thorough account of how SMEs can “unlock the ivory tower” and gain access to university knowledge to support their own innovation.Outlining and discussing the intellectual roots of research in this field in an accessible way, the book focuses on SMEs to provide insight to an often overlooked group of firms. Chapters show how the closeness of the partners in terms of network membership, working culture and practice, and technical language drive the formation and function of these collaborative links, offering a holistic account of this from idea generation to the completion of projects.This will be an essential read for academics researching innovation and the role of universities, as well as knowledge exchange practitioners wishing to further their understanding of collaboration processes. Policymakers seeking to explore how and why SMEs engage in open innovation practices will also find this an invigorating book.Trade Review‘Fostering university–industry collaboration has become an important concern for regional policymakers over recent decades in the context of the rise of systemic approaches to innovation and the evolution of university roles to integrate a “third mission” alongside their teaching and research functions. In focusing specifically on the relationship between universities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book by Andrew Johnston and Rob Huggins addresses a subset of university–industry collaboration that is underrepresented in the existing literature, but of key policy importance given the predominance of SMEs in regional economies. Indeed, in the context of societal challenges related to green, digital and demographic transitions that require more sophisticated cooperation within territorial innovation systems, there is a pressing need to understand the specific characteristics of effective collaborative relationships between academia and SMEs. The book is informed by empirical analysis that is in many ways specific to the UK context, and will therefore be of special interest to UK academics and policymakers.’ -- James R. Wilson, Regional Studies Journal’This is a much needed book on university-industry collaboration. Compellingly, it is rooted in research on this topic, but it also develops the practical implications of how university-industry collaboration should be approached. A must-read for both researchers and practitioners in university-industry collaboration and technology transfer.’ -- - Markus Perkmann, Imperial College London, UK‘This detailed study of university industry links focuses on the ways in which a diverse set of SMEs collaborate with universities. Often such studies emphasise particular technology sectors or high tech regions, but this book is refreshing in its study of varied SMEs across the UK, and draws out implications for all kinds of universities and places. Johnston and Huggins bring a detailed insight into university-industry links and the evolution of UK policy to develop important findings on the importance of proximity in future policy.’ -- - David Charles, Northumbria University, UK‘This important new book highlights how SMEs working in tandem with universities can deliver an innovative impact way beyond their size. Through their penetrating analysis, Johnston and Huggins highlight a new strategy for cities and regions to ignite the innovative potential of SMEs through fostering key relationships with universities.’ -- - David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Tamsin Mann 1. University–industry collaboration: why it matters 2. Framing collaboration: alliances, networks, and open innovation 3. Collaboration and the ‘engaged’ university 4. University–industry collaboration: formation and function 5. Universities and the UK economy 6. Ideation and motivation 7. Partner selection and assessing credibility 8. Absorbing and utilising knowledge 9. Understanding the results of collaboration 10. Conclusions and implications References Index

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Book SynopsisThe applied nature of the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars and researchers to connect with practitioners to ensure that their work has an impact on real-world activity. This insightful book examines the need to bridge the gap between scientific rigour in entrepreneurship research and its practical relevance to external stakeholders, and demonstrates clearly how this can be achieved in practice. Featuring cutting-edge research, Rigour and Relevance in Entrepreneurship Research, Resources and Outcomes presents and evaluates current critical approaches in the field, analysing their theoretical value and their relevance to policy and practice. Chapters examine these approaches through the lens of specific issues and circumstances such as intrapreneurship, freelancing, crowdfunding, family firms and technology-based start-ups, providing a variety of perspectives and exemplifying how pragmatic questions can productively influence research agendas. This book's up-to-date analysis and practical insight will prove invaluable to scholars and researchers in entrepreneurship as well as other business and management academics. Students at all levels in these fields will also find it useful for considering future research.Trade Review'The Frontiers series offers a selection of the latest, cutting-edge research in entrepreneurship and small business in Europe. It has become a key resource for researchers, educators, entrepreneurs and policy makers interested in understanding entrepreneurship and the prosperity of SME's.' --Silke Tegtmeier, President of the ECSB, 2019Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: rigour and relevance in European Entrepreneurship Research Eddy Laveren, Robert Blackburn, Ulla Hytti and Hans Landström Part I: Rigour and relevance of entrepreneurship research 2. Relevance of entrepreneurship research Johan Wiklund 3. The rigour – relevance debate: strategies to avoid creating an ivory tower in entrepreneurship research Hans Landström 4. Introducing three academic conversations: Critical Entrepreneurship Studies, Entrepreneurship as Practice and a Radical Processual Approach to entrepreneurship Piritta Parkkari and Karen Verduijn 5. Women and family firms: A state of the art literature review Annalisa Sentuti, Francesca Maria Cesaroni and Serena Cubico Part II: Entrepreneurial mindset and intrapreneurial orientation 6. Toward a Comprehensive Measure of Entrepreneurial Mindset Kelly G. Shaver and Immanuel Commarmond 7. Technology intrapreneurs – intrapreneurial orientation and potential of IT students Christine Blanka, David Rückel, Stefan Koch and Norbert Kailer Part III: Entrepreneurial behavior, resources and outcomes 8. Human capital, external relations, and early firm performance of technology-based start-ups Hanna Rydehell, Anders Isaksson and Hans Löfsten 9. Disembeddedness, Prior Industry Knowledge and Opportunity Creation Processes Caroline Wigren, Karin Hellerstedt, Maria Aggestam, Anna Stevenson and Ethel Brundin 10. “Dear Crowd, let me tell you a story.” The influence of emotions, authenticity and sense of community on entrepreneur’s ability to acquire funds via crowdfunding Amélie Wuillaume, Amélie Jacquemin and Frank Janssen 11. Freelancing and the Struggle for Work-Time Control John Kitching and Marfuga Iskandarova Index

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Book SynopsisThe important yet contradictory role of innovation in society calls for a philosophy of innovation. Critically exploring innovation in relation to values, the economy and social change, Rafael Ziegler proposes a collaborative theory and practice of innovation that aims to liberate possibilities for our common futures. Following cues from the arts and drawing on the innovation literature across the social sciences, this book exposes pro-innovation bias and the gospel of disruptive change. Not only entrepreneurs but also civic networks and tinkerers are discussed as sources of innovation, and social change as a balancing act of innovation, exnovation and restoration. The discussion of capabilitarian, communitarian, liberal, republican and socialist ideas of justice and innovation leads Ziegler to a transformative proposal: 'enough innovation' based on enough for all and with respect for all. This is a thought-provoking read for scholars working on sustainability-transformation, democratic, responsible and social innovation, and philosophy of economics.Trade Review‘Ziegler makes a brilliant contribution to the investigation of some of the most urgent ethical issues of the twenty-first century.’ -- Michel Bourban, Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation‘I have found Ziegler’s Innovation, ethics and our common futures a very inspirational book. It opens up new ways for engaging with one of the most pressing challenges of our times and offers bold new ideas, which give fresh impetus to the discourse on innovation. I highly recommend reading the book for anyone interested in the philosophy of innovation and sustainability.’ -- Job Timmermans, Philosophy of Management‘Innovation, Ethics and Our Common Future provides a timely contribution to the critical reflection of the role of innovation in the light of the unsustainability of modern-day (western) societies.’ -- Rick Hölsgens, NOvation'Innovations presume to be improvements, but such presumptions are essentially contested. As Ziegler shows, such contest has deep roots in ethics. Ziegler's book for the first time connects studies on social innovations with reflections from ethical theories. It analyses evaluative perspectives which determine what counts as innovation. I see Ziegler's approach as a groundbreaking paradigm shift in the theory of innovation. It fulfills the idea that books on innovations should be innovative in themselves.' --Konrad Ott, Kiel University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to innovation and ethics – a collaborative philosophy 2. Varieties of innovation – business, grassroots and democratic 3. Fair enough? – justice and innovation from a liberal-egalitarian perspective 4. Collaborative pluralism – community and capability 5. Innovation, domination and emancipation 6. Enough innovation References Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together a series of new perspectives and reflections on creative economies, this insightful Modern Guide expands and challenges current knowledge in the field. Interdisciplinary in scope, it features a broad range of contributions from both leading and emerging scholars, which provide innovative, critical research into a wide range of disciplines, including arts and cultural management, cultural policy, cultural sociology, economics, entrepreneurship, management and business studies, geography, humanities, and media studies.Designed to push the boundaries of understanding on the topic, this Modern Guide initially addresses definitional and methodological challenges, before offering new perspectives on the theory and practice of creative and cultural entrepreneurship, and exploring the role of networks and the importance of place and mobility. The book concludes by re-imagining creative economies, raising issues of inequality and justice, care and solidarity, and opportunities for value recognition, while providing new visions of inclusivity, cultural capability, and future development.A timely reflection on the importance of creative economies, this Modern Guide will be a critical read for students, scholars and policymakers working to support and develop future inclusive and sustainable creative economies.Trade Review‘For the past two decades, governments, academics, and industry groups have celebrated, measured, and advocated for the creative economy and its accelerated growth. Largely thought of as the production and consumption of creative goods across multiple sectors and geographies, the creative economy is actually much more – it is the sum total of our expressive lives – how we create and share human expression – which is both critical and complex and subject to policy, market forces, networks, professional practice, and community-based values. A Modern Guide to Creative Economies is essential reading for considering and reflecting on how we build healthy, equitable, and sustainable conditions for the creation, celebration, and exchange of human expression. The book, and its collection of brilliant essays, offers fresh insight that will inspire scholars, students, and leaders in arts and culture to ask new and different questions and ultimately to imagine possibilities for not just growing our creative economies, but also for sustaining the humans who are critical for creative expression to thrive.’ -- Steven Tepper, University of Arizona, US‘In an age of knowledge and creativity, we can all need a guide to provide a better understanding of how our times work and the challenges we face. This book does the job. It pushes the boundaries of current knowledge to make us better understand creative economies. It also expands the meaning of creativity in the context of cultural development, care, and social justice.’ -- Charlotta Mellander, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden‘Read, reference and engage with this book. You will be treated to a grand tour d’horizon of the contemporary European project in cultural and creative industries. Broadly multidisciplinary and multimethodological, it is positive critique that essays ways and means to work for more inclusive and sustainable futures in understanding creative economies.’ -- Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Creative Economies 1 Roberta Comunian, Alessandra Faggian, Jarna Heinonen and Nick Wilson PART I CREATIVE ECONOMIES: CHALLENGING DEFINITIONS AND EXPLORING NEW METHODS 2 Modular solutions and creative coding: the success of the creative and cultural industries in Australia 21 Scott Brook 3 On GIS and the creative economy: opportunities and challenges 36 Manfredi de Bernard, Roberta Comunian and Federica Viganò 4 Using social network analysis to understand the creative and cultural industries 55 Jon Swords 5 Measuring creative and cultural industries: the statistics job from taxonomies to composite indices 77 Alessandro Crociata and Chiara Burlina PART II CREATIVE ECONOMIES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: RE-THINKING INCLUSIVITY AND BUSINESS MODELS 6 Experiences of belonging to the creative economy: narratives from northern micro-entrepreneurs 92 Lenita Nieminen and Arja Lemmetyinen 7 Cultural entrepreneurship: ethnicity and migrant communities 109 Annette Naudin 8 Creative entrepreneurship in 2022 and beyond: some implications for higher education 125 Ruth Bridgstock PART III CREATIVE ECONOMIES: FOCUS ON NETWORKS, PLACE AND MOBILITIES 9 This must be the place: creative workers’ evaluations of cities as enabling contexts for work 147 Lorenzo Mizzau, Fabrizio Montanari, Damiano Razzoli and Stefano Rodighiero 10 Crafting professionals: exploring the spatial and social mediation of professional networks in craft higher education 164 Lauren England 11 Emerging spatial relations of artists and art scenes through the lens of art schools in Manchester and Leipzig 181 Silvie Jacobi 12 Exploring contemporary visual arts careers in Italy: education, mobility and project work 194 Jessica Tanghetti PART IV CREATIVE ECONOMIES RE-IMAGINED 13 Re-futuring creative economies: beyond bad dreams and the banal imagination 216 Mark Banks 14 Growth of what? New narratives for the creative economy, beyond GDP 228 Jonathan Gross 15 Inclusive solidarity: emerging forms of resistance within the UK creative economy 249 Tamsyn Dent 16 What is the creative economy – really? 269 Nick Wilson Index 286

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the experience of more than one hundred innovation strategies for smart specialisation, this book uncovers insights into their recent implementation by regional and national governments in the European Union. Although designed to boost the competitiveness of Europe and its regions, chapters analyse why the implementation of this policy model was much more complicated than expected. Offering an in-depth understanding of territories and their complexity, and highlighting why this is crucial to the topic, this timely book explores the importance of place-based innovation policy instead of a one-size-fits-all variety. It provides new reflections on the conceptual approaches for the identification of innovation priorities, the data required, the methods through which the data can be turned into useful information and the mapping of the information available. This book's insights into how the economic, scientific, innovative and societal potential of cities, regions and countries can be measured will be useful for policy-makers looking to learn from the smart specialisation of Europe. Public policy and economic innovation scholars will appreciate the strong case studies analysed in the book combined with in-depth analysis of different methodologies. Contributors include: R. Capello, A. Conte, N. Cortinovis, T. Dogaru, S. Franco, E. Fuster, C. Gianelle, H. Hollanders, A. Kleibrink, H. Kroll, C. Lenzi, G. Mandras, F.A. Massucci, M. Matusiak, A. Murciego, J. van Haaren, F. van OortTrade Review'Building on the experience of the implementation of smart specialisation in EU regions the book discusses mapping tools that may be used for the design of innovation policies. It proposes a broader way of looking at innovation which requires an in-depth understanding of territories and their complexity. The book is a must read for anyone interested in innovation policy at regional level.' --Donato Iacobucci, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy'The book addresses one of the key difficulties in identification of regional innovation priorities, the data required, and methods to map and turn data into useful information. In the time of data proliferation, the volume provides a thorough review of the landscape of data and analytics needed to monitor and answer the most pressing of questions when designing evidence-based smart specialization strategies. An important and timely resource for policy makers and practitioners, especially when designing the next generation of innovation strategies and fulfilling the enabling conditions set by the European Union.' --Anwar Aridi, The World Bank, US'This is a refreshing book on new perspectives for innovation policies. One of the forgotten dimensions in this field has been the significance of regional specificities and territorial constellations for the innovation potential of regions and cities. The novel place-based approach - in relation to a smart specialisation policy - provides a promising scientific signpost for modern spatial innovation policy. This volume contains a great collection of informed, quantitative contributions on place-based innovation strategies.' --Peter Nijkamp, Tinbergen Institute, AmsterdamTable of ContentsContents: Chapter 1: Mapping industrial and territorial dimensions for the design of place-based innovation policies: the rationale of the book Roberta Capello, Alexander Kleibrink and Monika Matusiak PART 1: UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMIC FABRIC OF TERRITORIES Chapter 2: Establishing the Fundament for RIS3 Regional Innovation Policies - Mapping Economic Specialisation Henning Kroll Chapter 3: Mapping relatedness in European regions Frank van Oort, Nicola Cortinovis, Teodora Dogaru and Jeroen van Haaren Chapter 4: Mapping global value chains Giovanni Mandras and Andrea Conte PART 2: UNDERSTANDING THE TERRITORIAL DIMENSION OF INNOVATION Chapter 5: Mapping regional innovation patterns and their evolution Roberta Capello and Camilla Lenzi Chapter 6: Mapping innovation potential for place-based innovation policies Hugo Hollanders and Monika Matusiak Chapter 7. Learning from Similar Regions: How to Benchmark Innovation Systems Beyond Rankings Susana Franco, Carlo Gianelle, Alexander Kleibrink and Asier Murciego Chapter 8: Identifying specialisation domains beyond taxonomies: mapping scientific and technological domains of specialisation via semantic analysis Enric Fuster, Francesco Massucci and Monika Matusiak Index

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview and critical evaluation of existing conceptualizations and new developments in innovation research. Arguing that innovation research requires inter- and trans-disciplinary explanations and methodological pluralism at various levels, it draws on multiple perspectives of innovation, knowledge and creativity from economics, geography, history, management, political science and sociology. The Companion provides the definitive guide to the field and introduces new approaches, perspectives and developments.The Companion systematically analyzes the challenges, problems and gaps in innovation research. Leading scholars reflect upon and critically assess the fundamental topics of the field, including: innovation as a concept innovation and institutions innovation and creativity innovation, networking and communities innovation in permanent spatial settings innovation in temporary and virtual settings innovation, entrepreneurship and market making innovation governance and management. Innovation researchers and students in economics, economic geography, industrial sociology, innovation studies, international business, management and political science will find the Companion to be an essential resource. It will also appeal to practitioners in innovation and policy makers in economic development, public policy and innovation policy.Contributors include: H. Bathelt, N. Bradford, T. Burger-Helmchen, M. Callon, U. Cantner, P. Cohendet, D.H. Cropley, L. D'Adderio, P. Desrochers, U. Dewald, G. Dosi, D. Dougherty, J.Y. Douglas, J.R. Faulconbridge, M.P. Feldman, M. Ferrary, D. Foray, N. Geilinger, E. Giuliani, J. Glückler, B. Godin, F. Golfetto, G. Grabher, M. Granovetter, S. Haefliger, I. Hamdan-Livramento, A.B. Hargadon, A. Hatchuel, S. Henn, J.-A. Heraud, A.J. Herod, C. Hussler, O. Ibert, A. Lagendijk, P. Le Masson, S. Leppälä, D. Leslie, S. Lhuillery, P. Li, N. Lowe, B.-Å. Lundvall, E.J. Maelecki, L. Marengo, S. McGrath-Champ, J. Merkel, S. Ogawa, F. Pachidou, G. Parmentier, J. Penin, G. Pickren, A.C. Pratt, J. Raffo, A. Rainnie, A. Rallet, N.M. Rantisi, D. Rinallo, J. Roberts, R.G. Shearmur, L. Simon, B. Sinclair-Desgagné, B. Spigel, J. Szurmak, A. Torre, B. Truffer, A. Van Assche, W. Vanhaverbeke, S. Vannuccini, C. Vellera, E. Vernette, G. von Krogh, B. Weil, D.A. WolfeTrade Review'This very wide-ranging selection of chapters reflects a much broader outlook than most other Innovation research collections. It is not wedded to any school or discipline, yet it draws on relevant ideas from virtually all of them. It is an ideal companion for a reader interested in the various new perspectives on innovation that have emerged recently and how these are connected to established themes, or the reader interested in developing a more interdisciplinary appreciation of the subject area.' --John Cantwell, Rutgers University, US'This is an innovative book on innovation. It innovates through the organisation of the subject achieved by the four editors. It digs into innovation as a concept, as institutions, as creativity, channeled through temporary and permanent organisations, shaping markets and dialoguing with entrepreneurship, and as embedded in places and networks. The contributions are not just hagiographies. All have critical thinking, questioning categories and data and findings. These are reasons why this book will become the essential reference in the field.' --Michael Storper, The London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Innovation and Knowledge Creation: Challenges to the Field Harald Bathelt, Patrick Cohendet, Sebastian Henn and Laurent Simon PART I. INNOVATION AS A CONCEPT 2. A Conceptual History of Innovation Benoit Godin 3. Concepts and Models of Innovation Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon 4. Science and Innovation Jean-Alain Héraud 5. Reverse Innovation Thierry Burger-Helmchem and Caroline Hussler 6. Broadening the Concept of Open Innovation Wim Vanhaverbeke 7. Measurement of Innovation Stephane Lhuillery, Julio Raffo and Intan Hamdan-Livramento PART II. INNOVATION AND INSTITUTIONS 8. Institutional Context and Innovation Johannes Glückler and Harald Bathelt 9. Innovation in Practice Deborah Dougherty 10. Domesticating Innovation – Designing Revolutions Yellowlees Douglas and Andrew Hargadon 11. Innovation and Lock-in Uwe Cantner and Simone Vannuccini 12. Patents and Open Innovation Julien Pénin PART III. INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY 13. Managing Knowledge, Creativity, and Innovation Patrick Cohendet, Guy Parmentier and Laurent Simon 14. Urban Diversity and Innovation Pierre Desrochers, Samuli Leppala and Joanna Szurmak 15. Innovation and the Cultural Economy Andy C. Pratt 16. Innovation and Cultural Industries Deborah Leslie and Norma M. Rantisi 17. Services and Innovation Johannes Glückler 18. Design Theories, Creativity and Innovation Pascal Le Masson, Armand Hatchuel and Benoit Weil 19. The Dark Side of Creativity David H. Cropley PART IV. INNOVATION, NETWORKING AND COMMUNITIES 20. Social Networks and Innovation Michel Ferrary and Mark Granovetter 21. Community, Creativity and Innovation Joanne Roberts 22. Industrial Clusters in Global Networks Elisa Giuliani 23. The User Innovation Phenomenon Cyrielle Vellera, Eric Vernette and Susumu Ogawa 24. Horizontal Learning Pengfei Li 25. Innovation versus Technological Achievement Dominique Foray PART V. INNOVATION IN PERMANENT SPATIAL SETTINGS 26. Geography of Innovation, Proximity and Beyond Alain Rallet and André Torre 27. Urban Bias in Innovation Studies Richard Shearmur 28. National and Regional Innovation Systems Harald Bathelt and Sebastian Henn 29. National Innovation Systems and Globalization Bengt-Åke Lundvall 30. Innovation, Regional Development and Relationality Arnoud Lagendijk PART VI. INNOVATION IN TEMPORARY AND VIRTUAL SETTINGS 31. Trade Fairs and Innovation Harald Bathelt 32. Innovation through Trade Show Concertation Francesca Golfetto and Diego Rinallo 33. Knowledge Collaboration in Hybrid Virtual Communities Gernot Grabher and Oliver Ibert 34. Performativity and the Innovation-Replication Dilemma Luciana D’Adderio 35. Coworking and Innovation Janet Merkel PART VII. INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MARKET MAKING 36. Markets, Marketization and Innovation Michel Callon 37. Market Formation and Innovation Systems Ulrich Dewald and Bernard Truffer 38. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Edward J. Malecki and Ben Spigel 39. Transnational Entrepreneurs and Global Knowledge Transfer Sebastian Henn and Harald Bathelt 40. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Alzheimer's Disease Treatment Nina Geilinger, Stefan Haefliger, Georg von Krogh, and Fotini Pachidou PART VIII. GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION 41. Relational Geographies of Knowledge and Innovation James R. Faulconbridge 42. Innovation, Governance and Place Maryann Feldman and Nichola Lowe 43. The Dynamics of Organizational Structures and Performances Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Marengo 44. Learning through Governance Neil Bradford and David A. Wolfe 45. Global Value Chains and Innovation Ari Van Assche 46. Innovation, Development and Global Destruction Networks Andrew Herod, Graham Pickren, Al Rainnie and Susan McGrath-Champ 47. Innovation and the Global Eco-Industry Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Over the last two decades, Service Innovation Studies (SIS) has achieved 15 distinct and important advances. This Research Agenda outlines these major developments, setting out the research priorities in the field. Faïz Gallouj and Faridah Djellal have drawn together an array of renowned contributors to create a multidisciplinary analysis of the topic that illustrates the strength of this research trajectory. International experts in the field of SIS consider the issue of innovation in services in relation to a number of major contemporary challenges, including environmental issues, social inclusion, economic development, gender, ethical issues, religion and public organizations. Moving from an overview of the 15 advances already made, this Research Agenda outlines the 15 main challenges that could structure research over the next decade, distinguishing between societal challenges, organizational and structural challenges, and methodological and didactic challenges.This is an enlightening book for both services and innovation scholars in the fields of economics, management science and public administration who wish to develop further research in SIS.Contributors include: F. Adrodegari, A. Bianchi, F. Djellal, B. Edvardsson, C. Gallouj, F. Gallouj, H. Lagunes, C. Lim, P. Maglio, G. Marin, T. Paschou, M. Perona, J. Reynoso, L. Rubalcaba, N. Saccani, M. Toivonen, B. Tronvoll, L. Wittel, A. ZanfeiTrade Review'This book makes an important contribution that will be most useful to scholars, students and practitioners. It provides a well structured and comprehensive framework of the basic tools that are indispensable to understand the dynamics of innovation in the knowledge intensive service industries that are at the core of advanced economies.' --Cristiano Antonelli, University of Turin and Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy'Service innovation is now recognised as a critical phenomenon in contemporary economies. The distinguished contributors to this collection highlight major themes in the research literature that has sought to explicate this multifaceted topic, bring fresh perspectives to bear on complex and often contentious issues, and identify important approaches for future study and practice.I strongly recommend this timely and provocative book!' --Ian Miles, University of Manchester, UK'This book represents an important initiative in the refocusing of innovation toward the very heart, though often ignored aspect, of value creation - service. It brings together some of the best thinkers in the service-innovation intersection to address the challenges and issues related to this essential refocusing process. I highly recommend it.' --Stephen L. Vargo, University of Hawai'i, USATable of ContentsContents: 1. Fifteen challenges for service innovation studies Faridah Djellal and Faïz Gallouj 2. Services, service innovation and the ecological challenge Faridah Djellal and Faïz Gallouj 3. Service innovation and social innovation Marja Toivonen 4. Service innovation in developing economies Luis Rubalcaba, Héctor Lagunes and Javier Reynoso 5. An ecosystem perspective on service innovation Bo Edvardsson and Bård Tronvoll and Lars Wittel 6. Innovation and smart service systems Paul P. Maglio and Chiehyeon Lim 7. Service innovation: towards a religious trajectory Camal Gallouj 8. Digital servitization in manufacturing as a new stream of research: a review and a further research agenda Theoni Paschou, Federico Adrodegari, Marco Perona and Nicol Saccani 9. New Perspectives in Public service innovation Annaflavia Bianchi, Giovanni Marin and Antonello Zanfei Index

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Book SynopsisTechnology is not just limited to technology companies, it impacts sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, and security. In the last few decades, countries, too, have started developing technologies or integrating technologies into their systems. As a result, all countries, regardless of size, need to understand the management of engineering and technology concepts. Digital Transformations reviews fundamentals and applications through existing and emerging technologies all around the world.Big data availability and the emergence of new tools provide opportunities to detect the emergence of new technologies. Some of the major elements of such analyses include bibliometrics, patent analysis and social network analysis. The authors focus on these three tools and demonstrate their use through applications such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, 3D printing, Wireless Power, Autonomous and Electric Driving, and Smart Homes.Through the examination of cases based on emerging technologies, the book provides a spectrum of these recent applications and serves as a reference for professionals, researchers and students on fundamentals of technology utilization tools.Trade Review‘Dr. Tugrul Daim has championed another masterpiece with this manuscript. This book helps transform vital information from the academic world into a blueprint that can be used by government and industry commercial leaders. A true first of its kind, as there is no other manuscript available to help engineering and technology managers navigate through the challenges presented by Digital Transformations.’ -- Matthew L. Tompkins, TC Defense, US‘The authors introduce the use of statistical methods such as bibliometrics, patent analysis and network analysis to understand trends, connections and leadership in technology innovation and also to identify key issues. Real-world case studies explore an array of innovations in the medical, power, transportation and home appliance fields. This approach illustrates how the techniques are useful while telling the story of some of today’s pivotal innovations.’ -- Fred Gordon, Energy Trust of Oregon, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Digital Transformations 1. Bibliometric-based analyses 2. Patent-based analyses 3. Network-based analyses 4. Integrated analyses 5. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This insightful Research Agenda offers unique perspectives into the different strands of social innovation research, covering the history and theory of this ever-growing research field. Chapters show the range and depth of the social advances that characterize this vibrant and contested subject, and analyse the strong increase in political and public interest in social innovation. Exploring the potential influence of social innovation on important social factors, the Research Agenda looks at education, poverty reduction, environmental policies, and health and social care. Contributors examine the approaches and successful initiatives that illustrate the strengths of social innovations in manifold areas and in establishing sustainable patterns of consumption, while coping with demographic change. Possible future research pathways are outlined and new topics such as social innovation ecosystems, epistemic diversities and sustainable development are examined in detail. This discerning and innovative Research Agenda will be an ideal read for social innovation researchers, policy-makers and innovation-policy stakeholders. It will be a welcome addition to the literature for innovation practitioners and entrepreneurs looking for theoretical insights into this influential subject.Trade Review‘A rich 15-chapter collection from key thinkers in the field ensures this volume will be a beacon for navigating understanding on the diversity of social innovation and creating new impulses for future research. Perceptive organization of the collection brings deep insights on the historical and theoretical foundations, ecosystem and actor constellations, and framework conditions and infrastructures, to critically assess and advance new practices in a post-Pandemic world. A must-read for academics and practitioners alike.’ -- – Anne de Bruin, Massey University, New Zealand‘We will not change the world for the better by waiting for the state or the market to change the world for us. We need to change our social practice. The multiplication and scaling up of hundreds of social innovations, in all walks of life, everywhere in the world, will be the critical main element to tackle our grand challenges. This being so, this book does exactly what is needed now. It takes stock of Social Innovation as an academic field and as an empirical phenomenon; and it outlines the research agenda of the future. This edition is refreshingly diverse and reflective on the challenges for academics and practitioners. World leading experts from all corners of the globe and – importantly – from a diverse range of disciplines reflect on how to better understand and enable social innovation. This is also a huge credit to the editors and confirms their front-running role in this rather new field of research. This book will be essential for research and teaching in innovation and transition studies and social science more generally and it will help to frame the field for years to come.’ -- Jakob Edler, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 A research agenda for social innovation – the emergence of a research field 1 Jürgen Howaldt, Christoph Kaletka and Antonius Schröder PART I HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 2 Research on the history of innovation: from the spiritual to the social 21 Benoît Godin and Cornelius Schubert 3 Social innovation and social change 39 Jürgen Howaldt and Michael Schwarz 4 The importance of systems thinking and transformation for social innovation research: the evolution of an approach to social innovation 59 Katharine McGowan, Frances Westley, Michele-Lee Moore, Erin Alexiuk, Nino Antadze, Sean Geobey and Ola Tjornbo 5 The role of social innovation research in sustainable development 81 Jeremy Millard 6 Digital transformation of work: spillover effects of workplace innovation on social innovation 99 Steven Dhondt, Peter R.A. Oeij and Frank D. Pot PART II GOVERNANCE, ACTORS AND ECOSYSTEMS 7 Capabilities approach and social innovation 117 Rafael Ziegler 8 Unpacking epistemic diversities in grassroots social innovation and enterprises in India: a critical agenda for re-centering people 133 Swati Banerjee and Abdul Shaban 9 Social innovation ecosystems: a literature review and insights for a research agenda 149 Graziela Dias Alperstedt and Carolina Andion 10 Power and conflict in social innovation: a field-based perspective 169 Simon Teasdale, Michael J. Roy and Lars Hulgård PART III FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURES 11 Research on social innovation: advancing the frontiers of social innovation research and policy 189 Geoff Mulgan 12 Collaborative spaces for social innovation 211 Eva Wascher 13 The role of design research in and for social innovation 229 Tamami Komatsu Cipriani, Alessandro Deserti and Francesca Rizzo 14 Social innovation and social sciences: reflections on a difficult relationship 245 Klaus Schuch and Nela Šalamon 15 Measuring social innovation 263 Judith Terstriep, Gorgi Krlev, Georg Mildenberger, Simone Strambach, Jan-Frederik Thurmann and Laura Wloka Index

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Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive overview of the urban sharing economy, this Modern Guide takes a forward-looking perspective on how sharing goods and services may facilitate future sustainability of consumption and production. It highlights recent developments and issues, with cutting-edge discussions from leading international scholars in business, engineering, environmental management, geography, law, planning, sociology and transport studies.A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy begins with basic concepts and definitions, providing broad context with a focus on shifting service modalities, regulatory frameworks, and a historical overview of how sharing came to be a staple feature of the economies of contemporary cities. The second section focusses on shared mobility, with a particular lens on micromobility, parking, ride-hailing, car-sharing and ride-sharing. The third section focusses on shared space, including coworking office spaces and short-term rentals, as well as shared goods and services, including streaming music services, clothing rental services, food sharing and tool libraries. The book concludes by outlining the key ethical challenges that face the sharing economy.Real-world case studies are presented from authors in more than a dozen countries, making this a helpful and invigorating read for scholars of the sharing economy, urban studies and sustainable development. A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy is likely to also be of interest to those studying urban planning, human geography, and other disciplines focussing on the future of planetary urbanisation.Trade Review‘Spanning multiple disciplines and continents, A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy documents how sharing platforms transform mobility, space and our relationship with things. How platforms are regulated will determine whether ‘‘sharing‘‘ delivers community, prosperity and sustainability; or exclusion, precarity and hyper-extraction. Regulation requires a map. Here it is.‘Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy 2 Thomas Sigler and Jonathan Corcoran PART II UNDERSTANDING THE SHARING ECONOMY 2 What is the sharing economy? Origins and precedents 12 Sirat Mahmuda, Thomas Sigler, Jonathan Corcoran and Eric Knight 3 Regulating the urban sharing economy 28 Nestor M. Davidson and John J. Infranca 4 The identity crisis of ‘sharing’: from the co-op economy to the urban sharing economy phenomenon 41 Andrea Geissinger, Louise Pelgander and Christina Öberg 5 Overcoming scarcity through efficient consumption: innovative sharing initiatives 56 Pia A. Albinsson, B. Yasanthi Perera and Merlyn A. Griffiths PART III SHARING SPACES AND PLACES 6 Short-term rental platforms: home-sharing or sharewashed neoliberalism? 73 Petter Törnberg 7 Parking policy and bay-sharing for unmooring automobility from cities 88 Anthony Kimpton, Dorina Pojani, Neil Sipe and Jonathan Corcoran 8 The impact and regulatory issues of Airbnb in a mid-sized city: Valencia (Spain) 104 Shirley Nieuwland and Luis del Romero Renau 9 Sharing office spaces: coworking spaces from grassroots initiatives to globalised shared-office companies 120 Agnes Katharina Müller PART IV SHARING TRANSPORT 10 Bicycle sharing in cities 138 Oliver O’Brien 11 Bike-sharing and ride-hailing in Chinese cities 152 Fengjun Jin 12 Shared micromobility: policy and practices in the United States 167 Susan Shaheen and Adam Cohen 13 Street smart technology: Gojek as urban infrastructure 182 Onat Kibaroglu PART V SHARING THINGS 14 A spatiotemporal approach to micromobility 197 Grant McKenzie and Carlos Baez 15 Urban food sharing 211 Anna R. Davies 16 The environmental implications of car-sharing 225 Andrius Plepys and Ana María Arbeláez Vélez 17 The role of tool libraries in the new economy: sharing in an economic degrowth society 239 Sabrina Chakori and Shane Hopkinson 18 Clothes sharing in cities: the case of fashion leasing 256 Kirsi Niinimäki 19 The intricate relationship between music and the sharing economy 269 Raphaël Nowak PART VI CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS 20 Discrimination in the urban sharing economy 284 Awais Piracha, Rachel Sharples and Kevin Dunn 21 The sharing economy or the erring economy? How the law of amplification brings out the best and the worst in platform-based technologies 298 Kentaro Toyama Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a conceptual framework that integrates strategy, product, process and human resource research, this timely book interrogates these four critical and interrelated areas of innovation management. Chapters examine new insights into the latest trends in the field, providing a holistic view into key management strategies that benefit both up-and-coming and established businesses. International contributions from leading scholars analyze cases and research from the USA, Japan, China and Brazil as well as a range of European countries, highlighting the successes and failures of key innovation management systems. The book looks at ways to create a sustainable innovation strategy, and how this can be implemented to achieve competitive advantage in the long run. The suggested integrated framework allows for a sound understanding of influential managerial elements, making this an important read for practitioners hoping to define and renew successfully innovative organisations. Management and entrepreneurship scholars will benefit from the novel insights into innovation strategy explored in the book. Contributors include: V. Auruskeviciene, F. Bernhard, J. Chen, A. Chmieliauskas, S. Conner, G. Gopal, K. Grigorjevaite, A. Klimaviciene, J. Li-Ying, D.P.T. Lopes, T. Onaka, E. Pilkauskaite, S. Senkevic, S. Sereika, S. Simkonis, V. Skudiene, O. Stangej, K. Tadakuma, G. Vezeliene, Y. Wang, R. WickramasekeraTrade Review'This book arrives in an insightful moment! Innovation Management is not only a relevant effort made by representative international authors, but also it is an up to date vision of the key topic of the 21st century, innovation and its management issues. Other than the role of strategy, product development and processes, we have to shed light to a fourth critical aspect on management of innovation: the role of people.' --Paulo A. Zawislak, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and Innovation Research Center (NITEC), Brazil'Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. For innovation management, one must address the strategy, product, process, and people components. This new book provides an invaluable contribution to the existing literature looking at innovation management from a worldwide perspective. New insights are gleaned from these case studies and global research perspectives. Keep on innovating!' --Jay Liebowitz, Harrisburg University of Sciences and Technology, US'I was excited to learn that Vida Skudiene, Jason Li-Ying, and Fabian Bernhard had teamed up to produce a book on innovation management from a strategic perspective. They did not disappoint. Building on their considerable international academic and practical experience, they have produced a must-read volume at the critical intersection of innovation and strategy from multiple perspectives. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars from multiple countries, they have compiled critical insights into strategic, product, process, and human resource innovation management. Overall, this book offers solid economic and social perspectives which keenly inform the formulation of innovation strategy for managers, entrepreneurs, students, and academics.' --Charles H. Matthews, University of Cincinnati, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Innovation management: perspectives from strategy, product, process and human resource research 2 Vida Škudienė, Jason Li-Ying and Fabian Bernhard PART II INNOVATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 2 Innovation management through technology licensing in China 16 Jason Li-Ying, Yuandi Wang and Jin Chen 3 Innovation management: the Japanese way 27 Kenji Tadakuma, Tadao Onaka and Rumintha Wickramasekera PART III PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 4 Exploring best practices of new product development 48 Suzanne L. Conner 5 Product design innovation and functional innovation effects on consumers’ adoption of soft furniture 58 Vilte Auruskeviciene and Sabina Senkevic 6 Innovation and financial performance in telecommunication companies 72 Asta Klimaviciene and Sarunas Sereika PART IV PROCESS INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 7 Implementing process innovation by integrating continuous improvement and business process re-engineering 93 Gurram Gopal and Egle Pilkauskaite 8 New role of systems analysts in Agile requirements engineering 114 Alfredas Chmieliauskas, Kristina Grigorjevaite and Saulius Simkonis PART V HUMAN RESOURCE INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 9 Transforming human resource management: innovative e-HRM value creation for multinational companies 140 Vida Škudienė, Gintare Vezeliene and Olga Stangej 10 Human resource management perspective on innovation 167 Daniel Paulino Teixeira Lopes 11 On the emotions that spark innovative and entrepreneurial behaviors in employees 182 Fabian Bernhard PART VI CASE STUDY 12 UPS Lithuania – choose your own salary 190 Vida Škudienė and Ilona Buciuniene Index 196

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Book SynopsisThis book is about inventions and innovation in U.S. Federal Laboratories. The inventions discussed are defined by the technology transfer mechanism known by the term invention disclosures, and the innovations that follow are outputs from the technology transfer process. The demonstrated positive relationships in the book's model are the groundwork for suggesting not only a rethinking of the extant empirical research, within the context of a knowledge production function, but also a refocusing of U.S. technology policy in support of technology transfer from Federal Laboratories. Invention, Innovation and U.S. Federal Laboratories brings a comprehensive and accessible discussion of technology transfer to academic researchers in economics, public policy, and public administration, as well as to policy makers and Federal Laboratory directors.Trade Review'This book puts together many pieces of the technology development life cycle puzzle, providing a great array of perspectives, insights and empirical evidence. A powerful tool for any researcher or practitioner in technology policy as it uncovers, chapter by chapter, the dynamics and the central role played by inventive ideas.' --Sara Amoroso, Economist at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre-Seville, Spain'This pathbreaking book identifies the sleeping giant of American innovative prowess - The U.S. Federal Laboratories. By subjecting the role of the Federal Laboratories to the lens of his systematic and pervasive analytical framework, Al Link uncovers this surprising hidden champion of American innovation. This thoughtful and lucid book provides a masterful new and fresh look at the role of the U.S. Federal Laboratories in driving innovation in the United States. It is a must read for all scholars, researchers and thought leaders in business and policy who need to understand how and why innovation works.' --David Audretsch, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Genesis of Inventive Ideas 2. New Invention Disclosures 3. Experiences and Inventive Ideas 4. Leveraging the Experiences to Inventive Ideas Process 5. Inventive Ideas as a Driver of Technology Transfer Activity 6. Inventive Ideas as a Driver of Technology Transfer Activity: A Case Study 7. CRADAs: Market Failure and Government Failure? 8. Concluding Observations References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisOffering invaluable insights into technologically-driven change in Africa, this incisive book envisions myriad positive economic changes brought about by new technologies and innovations. Rooted in original research from contributors who have worked and taught in Africa, it encapsulates developments and breakthroughs throughout the continent.Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa details research and data on leading African economies and companies, illustrating the current achievements of these key players. With contributions by authors from a broad variety of fields including law, economics and journalism, it considers unique circumstances such as Africa’s post-pandemic recovery. It provides contextualised examinations of the challenges involved in technological leapfrogging for sub-Saharan Africa.This timely book will be essential for students and academics of entrepreneurship, development economics and innovation. It will additionally be of great benefit to policy makers interested in expanding their awareness of innovation and research in Africa.Trade Review‘This provocative volume provides a whole new lens for understanding the potential of technology to redefine the future of Africa. The contributors provide a perspective that is both realistic and holistic, particularly in reflecting the social, economic, cultural, and political challenges facing the continent. They approach technological leapfrogging not as a silver bullet, but as a catalyst that, if managed appropriately, can have cross-sectoral benefits and produce sustainable economic development.’ -- Michael H. Morris, University of Notre Dame, US‘Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa: Digital Transformation and Opportunity for the Next Growth Continent is a must-read for knowing where Africa is going and opportunities for its future. Transformational pathway implications for the continent are described in detail.’ -- Dianne H.B. Welsh, University of North Carolina Greensboro, US‘This is a highly interesting and innovative volume for everyone with an interest in industrialization, leapfrogging, and technological development on the African continent. It will also be of help to scholars and practitioners who are working on business strategy in developing countries more generally. Moreover, the volume raises important policy implications and lessons learned from a variety of detailed case studies and contexts across the continent.’ -- Peter Lund-Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark‘Technology leapfrogging seems to be a promising approach to boost economic development and innovative solutions across Africa, but how can it succeed? What factors need to be considered? What should be avoided? Through an interdisciplinary and institutional lens, this edited research volume addresses such questions by building on timely cases and data, while not neglecting influencing local contexts and traditions of the 54 African countries. A must-read for scholars and practitioners who are eager to find innovative solutions that are beneficial for the continent and its people.’ -- Emamdeen Fohim, Centre for African Smart Public Value Governance, Mauritius‘Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa: Digital Transformation and Opportunity for the Next Growth Continent is a timely book for scholars and practitioners on digital transformation and technological leapfrogging, concepts that offer challenges as well as opportunities that are necessary for fast tracking Africa’s growth and development.’ -- Jane Khayesi, Leeds University Business School, UK‘The rapid urbanization of a very youthful and educated population coupled with immense leaps in technology puts Africa at the crux of a technological transformation of society. Swartz, Scheepers, Lindgreen, Yousafzai, and Matthee vividly capture the opportunities, challenges, and nuance this presents African economies.’ -- Hermann A. Ndofor, Indiana University, US and Associate Editor of Africa Journal of Management and Journal of ManagementTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xii by Kimberly Killmer Hollister Foreword xiv by Morris Mthombeni Acknowledgements xvii Introduction to Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa 1 Ethné Swartz, Caren Brenda Scheepers, Adam Lindgreen, Shumaila Yousafzai, and Marianne Matthee 1 Technology leapfrogging in Sub-Saharan Africa: jumping the management capabilities gap 17 David Teece, Kieran Brown, and Phil Alves 2 Following the money: leapfrogging through and with entrepreneurial growth companies in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa 33 Ethné Swartz, Christopher Denecke and Caren Brenda Scheepers 3 Technological leapfrogging in Africa: critical success factors to drive inclusive growth 55 Marianne Matthee and Caren Brenda Scheepers 4 Advancing technological hub collaborations to promote transnational African communities 71 Michelle Montague-Mfuni, Frances Fabian, and Caren Brenda Scheepers 5 Digital technology and innovation in Africa: leapfrogging in finance 89 Njuguna Ndung’u and Alex Oguso 6 Financial leapfrogging and innovative financing in sub-Saharan Africa: gender-lens investments for gender equality 112 Michele Ruiters and Motshedisi Mathibe 7 Two kinds of time: the Chinese–Kenyan infrastructure disconnect 136 Arielle S. Emmett 8 Ongoing technological innovation in the home: a blessing or a curse? 155 Alet C. Erasmus 9 Can digital technologies help Africa to leapfrog its massive education gap? 171 Ali Parry and Wilma Viviers 10 Digital leadership skills that South African leaders require for successful digital transformation 184 Asmitha Tiekam and Hugh Myres 11 Legal leapfrogging? Legal system and rule of law effects on cross-listing to bond by emerging-market firms 207 Joel Malen, Paul M. Vaaler, and Ivy Zhang 12 How intellectual property regimes and innovative infrastructure promote growth of Africa’s technological market 245 Ashley Elizabeth Sperbeck 13 Africa’s post-pandemic economic recovery: catch up, don’t give up 268 Lyal White, Liezl Rees, and Nikitta Hahn Index

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Book SynopsisThe intangible capitalist economy, that is intellectual capitalism, continues evolving, driven by technological innovations and various forms of entrepreneurship. The creation of intellectual capital and intellectual properties lies at its heart. This eagerly anticipated book analyzes the many complex links between R&D, patents, innovations, entrepreneurship, growth and value creation in this process. Based on an extensive array of national empirical and policy studies, Ove Granstrand explores a comprehensive range of innovation and intellectual property (IP) issues that pertain not only to Europe but to the entire world. These issues include the role of patents and licensing in the governance of technology and innovation, and the many uses and abuses of patents. The text also details new IP phenomena in an increasingly patent-intensive world with patent-rich multinationals and patent-savvy new entrants from Asia. In a world facing challenges that call for innovative responses, this book contains a set of valuable policy recommendations for strengthening innovativeness for economic growth and ultimately for social value creation. This timely book will be a valuable resource for economics, law and management scholars wishing to gain a thorough understanding of the topic. Practitioners and policy-makers will also greatly benefit from reading this volume, following up on the author's widely acclaimed book published in 1999 The Economics and Management of Intellectual Property: Towards Intellectual Capitalism.Trade Review'Ove Granstrand's excellent monograph titled Evolving Properties of Intellectual Capitalism: Patents and Innovation for Growth and Welfare explores how the innovation system works in advanced economics. At its core is the concept of the ''innovation spiral'' that depicts the interdependence amongst R&D/knowledge, patents/IP, innovation and economic growth and welfare. Its focus on the neglected topic of intangible assets and intellectual capital is timely. The author's focus is primarily European but the relevance of his work is global. The book is a must read for policymakers, a handy reference for managers, and a useful guide for students wishing to understand the many element of innovation policy.' --David Teece, Berkeley Research Group, US'Ove Granstrand's new book is both a broad and deep treatment of his subject. A general reader may value this original and important work for its international comparisons and its treatment of policy as well as more familiar economic issues. A reader with interest in the details of intellectual property may value the work for the penetrating questions asked in the author's research and the wealth of detail and evidence presented. The book is important in its advocacy of seeing patents as a dynamic factor influencing innovation rather than as simply having a static and protective role. Granstrand's treatment will be valuable to executive and political audiences as well as lawyers and economists.' --James M. Utterback, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US'This is Ove Granstrand's best and most profound work to date. He casts intellectual capitalism as a global system, interfacing a variety of national policy regimes. He shows why the pro-patent era is also pro-licensing, as increasing spatial and organizational interdependencies necessitate shifts in governance structures.' --John Cantwell, Rutgers University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Innovation, IP and Intellectual Capitalism 2. Analytical framework 3. Patents and innovations for growth and welfare – a literature review 4. Methodology 5. Patents, innovations and growth – empirical analysis 6. What explains fluctuations in patenting frequency and propensity? 7. Discussion and general innovation and IP policy recommendations 8. Special recommendations for increasing patent knowledge and patenting 9. Patent and Innovation System Developments in Europe, Asia and the US 10. Transnational policy recommendations and policy issues 11. Global innovation and intellectual capitalism 12. Summary and Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThe transition to a circular economy requires innovation at all levels of society. This insightful Research Handbook is the first comprehensive edited work examining how innovation can contribute to a more circular economy.Illustrating the critical part played by individuals, organisations and system-level actors in the development of circular innovations, this Research Handbook demonstrates that while many firms are working towards a circular economy, most of the innovations are incremental. Hence, the loop is far from closed, and much more radical work remains to be done by both academics and practitioners. The content and structure reflect a multi-level understanding of innovation for a circular economy, with conceptual chapters and strong empirical research with both quantitative and qualitative research designs. Highlighting the urgent need for a circular economy, authors call for more comprehensive and radical innovation efforts to achieve it.This Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics and students of innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as those more broadly interested in the circular economy. Practitioners and policymakers will also find this useful for providing practical examples of how to understand innovation processes and frameworks that contribute to a circular economy.Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I INTRODUCTION TO INNOVATION FOR A CIRCULAR ECONOMY 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook of Innovation for a Circular Economy 2 Siri Jakobsen, Thomas Lauvås, Francesco Quatraro, Einar Rasmussen and Marianne Steinmo 2 Research propels the circular industrial economy from the material to the immaterial ‘world’ 12 Walter R. Stahel PART II FIRM-LEVEL ENABLERS FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY INNOVATION 3 Sustainability innovations in the manufacturing industry: a comparison of circular and climate innovation initiatives 25 Fanny Hermundsdottir, Ann Elida Eide and Arild Aspelund 4 Value retention in the Norwegian and Swedish outdoor industry 36 Are Severin Ingulfsvann 5 Toward a sustainable paradigm: circular economy solutions in the fashion industry 47 Won-Yong Oh, Young Kyun Chang, Jung Hwan Park and Sanghee Han 6 From vision to commercialization of a circular economy innovation: a longitudinal study of overcoming challenges throughout the full innovation process 59 Jenni Kaipainen and Leena Aarikka-Stenroos 7 Organizing for a circular economy: internal activism and organizational boundaries in SMEs 72 Chia-Hao Ho, David Monciardini and Edvard Glücksman PART III COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY 8 Open innovation and the adoption of environmental process innovations: information source and proximity to partner types 85 Robert A. W. Kok, Ward Ooms and Paul E. M. Ligthart 9 A reverse logistics framework for circular supply chains 98 Stine Sonen Tveit, Ottar Bakås and Maria 10 Exploring shared value creation in circular food systems: the case of a Norwegian food bank 110 Heidi C. Dreyer, Luitzen De Boer, Marte Lønvik Bjørnsund and Anna Pauline Heggli 11 How waste becomes value: the new ecology of surplus heat exchange in Norwegian industry 122 Jens Petter Johansen and Jens Røyrvik 12 The circular water economy and the ‘seven C’s’ 133 Greg O’Shea, Seppo Luoto, Sanne Bor, Henri Hakala and Iben Bolund Nielsen 13 Drivers and barriers for industrial symbiosis: the case of Mo Industrial Park 144 Siri Jakobsen and Marianne Steinmo PART IV TYPES OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY INNOVATIONS 14 Simultaneous adoption of circular innovations: a challenge for rapid growth of the circular economy 160 Arild Aspelund, Martin Fredrik Olsen and Ottar Michelsen 15 Business model innovation for a circular economy: adapting to create value 174 Maria Figueroa-Armijos 16 Exploring the entrepreneurial landscape and systemic barriers of circular business models 183 Even Bjørnstad and Jorunn Grande 17 How innovations catalyse the circular economy: building a map of circular economy innovation types from a multiple-case study 195 Anil Engez, Valtteri Ranta and Leena Aarikka-Stenroos 18 Salmon farming firms moving towards resource circularity: a typology of resource loop innovations 210 Karin Wigger, Thomas Lauvås, Siri Jakobsen and Marianne Steinmo PART V TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITALIZATION FOR A CIRCULAR ECONOMY 19 Experimenting with new business model strategies for the circular economy 222 Nancy Bocken, Christiaan Kraaijenhagen, Jan Konietzko, Brian Baldassarre, Phil Brown and Cheyenne Schuit 20 How digital technologies boost value potential creation and value realization in CE: insights from a multiple case study across industries 236 Sami Rusthollkarhu, Valtteri Ranta and Leena Aarikka-Stenroos 21 The circular economy impacts of digital academic spin-offs 251 Phuc Hong Huynh and Einar Rasmussen 22 Towards measuring innovation for circular economy using patent data 265 Dolores Modic, Alan Johnson and Miha Vučkovič 23 The geography of circular economy technologies in Europe: evolutionary patterns and technological convergence 277 Fabrizio Fusillo, Francesco Quatraro and Cristina Santhià PART VI INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLING A CIRCULAR ECONOMY 24 Fund model innovations for circular economy investing 295 Puck Hegeman 25 The circular economy, openness, and dispersed access to research results 307 Haakon Thue Lie, Knut Jørgen Egelie, Christoph Grimpe and Roger Sørheim 26 Opportunity domains for new entrants in the circular economy: a keyword-in-context analysis of Norwegian R&D tax incentive projects 316 Roberto Rivas Hermann, Are Jensen and Peter Gianiodis 27 Circular public procurement: innovation tool for municipalities? 328 Elena Dybtsyna, Dolores Modic, Kristina Nikolajeva and Raymond Sørgård Hansen Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by a plethora of expert contributors from a range of institutions, the Handbook of Technology Transfer provides an engaging deep-dive review of technology transfer as a complex and dynamic process, applying different mechanisms characterising activities in a variety of countries.The Handbook takes a fresh look at how technology transfer comprises at least four dimensions: the underlying mechanism of transferring knowledge; the role of individuals that trigger the transfer; the role of institutions where the transfer takes place, and lastly the role of governments and politics. Split into four distinct parts, this insightful Handbook fully examines each of these dimensions and the roles that each of them play in technology transfer, highlighting university institutions in Europe and North America in particular. Forward-thinking, it also delves into future innovation implementation in emerging economies where resources are limited, and the challenges faced as a result.This enlightening Handbook will be an excellent resource for scholars of business management, economics and information technology. It will also be of great interest to policy-makers of innovation and entrepreneurship given its in-depth look at technology transfer and innovation.Trade Review‘This Handbook edited by David Audretsch, Erik Lehmann, and Albert Link is an important contribution to the canon on university technology transfer. Written by well-known academics, each of the chapters examines either vital issues in technology transfer or national technology transfer recipes. It will be essential reading for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners interested in the current state of thinking about technology transfer.’ -- Martin Kenney, University of California, Davis, US‘This timely and important Handbook should be on the bookshelf of any scholar interested in the managerial or public policy implications of technology transfer. Its global scope and blending of new developments in both theory and practice are especially attractive. The editors have assembled a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars, which is entirely appropriate, given the nature of the topic. Technology transfer spans a number of fields within the social sciences, business administration, and engineering, including management, economics, geography, sociology, and public policy studies. Each of these fields is represented in this cross-cutting volume. A “must-read” for anyone interested in this topic.’ -- Donald Siegel, Arizona State University, US‘This Handbook edited by David Audretsch, Erik Lehmann, and Albert Link is an important contribution to the canon on university technology transfer. Written by well-known academics, each of the chapters examines either vital issues in technology transfer or national technology transfer recipes. It will be essential reading for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners interested in the current state of thinking about technology transfer.’ -- Martin Kenney, University of California, Davis, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Technology Transfer 1 David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann and Albert N. Link PART I KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER 1 The limited transferability of knowledge 11 Cristiano Antonelli 2 The impact of knowledge transfer on innovation: exploring the cross-fertilization of basic and applied research 25 Dennis P. Leyden and Matthias Menter 3 The role of public finance in knowledge transfer and innovation 39 David B. Audretsch and Maksim Belitski PART II INDIVIDUALS 4 Principal investigators and knowledge management: a micro-foundational conceptual framework 57 James A. Cunningham, Manlio Del Giudice, Melita Nicotra, Conor O’Kane and Marco Romano 5 Factors facilitating the inventing academics’ transition from nascent entrepreneurs to business owners 75 Joao Ricardo Faria, Rajeev K. Goel and Devrim Göktepe-Hultén 6 The role of work-family initiatives in fostering technology transfer: research opportunities on family and non-family SMEs 103 Katerina Vasilevska Mara Brumana and Tommaso Minola PART III INSTITUTIONS 7 University-industry collaboration: drivers and barriers 124 Thomas Lauvås and Einar Rasmussen 8 Contextualizing technology transfer: a review of university-industry transfer in the construction industry 138 Laís Bandeira Barros, Mirjam Knockaert and Laura Lecluyse 9 The role of Universities of Applied Sciences in technology transfer: the case of Germany 159 Alexander Starnecker and Katharine Wirsching 10 The role of university in a time of crisis: learn from the past to shape the future 175 Henry Etzkowitz, Chunyan Zhou and Rosa Caiazza PART IV COUNTRIES 11 Academic entrepreneurship in Italy 197 Alice Civera, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara 12 Academic entrepreneurship: the performance and impacts of academic spin-offs in Norway 216 Marius Tuft Mathisen and Einar Rasmussen 13 Universities’ ownership of intellectual property: focus on Canada 237 Shiri M. Breznitz, Samaa Kazerouni and Qiantao Zhang 14 Technology transfer and frugal social innovations: looking inside an emerging economy 250 Claudia Yañez-Valdés and Maribel Guerrero Index

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Book SynopsisAlong with its interrelated companion volume, The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video, this book examines the next generation of TV-online video. It reviews the elements that lead to online platforms and video clouds and analyzes the software and hardware elements of content creation and interaction, and how these elements lead to different styles of video content.What are the models of this new content? What kind of cultural and societal acceleration can we expect? What are the societal implications of the next-generation media system? What problems are emerging? What kind of market power is emerging in media industries, around the world? And how can one deal with them? The author addresses these questions with facts and figures, ranging across technology, economics, communications studies, business, policy, and law. He reviews the regulatory options, and recommends a new approach for video media. Media professionals in academia, management, technology, policy and creative production will value the approachable yet thorough information presented in The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video.Trade Review'In this two-volume tour-de-force on video, Noam nails the multi-dimensional answers to what is consumed and how it is consumed. The passage of video through programmable devices invites unconstrained transformation.' -- - Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google'These books show how the world's most impactful medium for entertainment, information, education and marketing will evolve -- and why. No one is more qualified to project and describe the future of the media business, technology and regulation than Eli Noam. Numerous authors have chronicled the media industry's past and present, but this is the first description I’ve seen of where it is going and what it will look like in the future.' -- Bob Zitter, Media Technology Advisor and former HBO Chief Technology Officer'Professor Noam sees technical advances driving dramatic change in such areas as digital video infrastructures and services, particular business models, and the reshaping of the media industry, such as around the market power of cloud video services. These developments raise major social and economic issues for regulators, such as around greater concentration. Professor Noam's insights will enable students, media scholars, practitioners and the policy community to anticipate these transformations and shape policy and practice in ways that will better serve the increasingly diverse interests of the public but also the vitality of digital age media.' -- - Emeritus Professor William H. Dutton, University of Southern California, US and Oxford University, UK‘Changing media consumers’ behaviors, further advances in digital technologies and a dramatic health and economic crisis, combine to transform the media and telecommunications industries. Eli Noam’s new books present us with current, comprehensive,in-depth, analyses of unprecedented dimensions. The Columbia Professor offers essential present and future industry perspectives to readers, scholars, students, managers and policy makers.’ -- - Gerard Pogorel, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, CNRS Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute I3, France‘The Internet, now 50 years old, was not built for video, but today video is most of what it carries. Professor Noam does it for us again with his two volumes about the content of streaming video, in the broadest context, as next-generation television.’ -- - Bob Metcalfe, Internet Pioneer, now UTAustin Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Impending Revolution in Video Technology and its Impact on Media Content and Regulation 2. The Three Generations of TV 3. The Dynamics of Content 4. New-Style Content 5. Market Power in Cloud Video 6. Societal Impacts 7. Regulating Online Video Content: Models and Issues 8. Regulating Online Video Infrastructure: Issues and Institutions 9. Dealing with the Market Power of Video 10, Observations and Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisAlong with its interrelated companion volume, The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video, this book covers the next generation of TV-streaming online video, with details about its present and a broad perspective on the future. It reviews the new technical elements that are emerging, both in hardware and software, their long-term trend, and the implications, and discusses the emerging ''media cloud'' of video and infrastructure platforms, and the organizational form of such TV.What kind of companies? What kind of business models? What kind of industries? What kind of impact on existing media? And what kind of market power in media industries, around the world? The author addresses these questions with facts and figures, ranging across technology, economics, communications studies, business, policy, and law.Media professionals in academia, management, technology, policy and creative production will appreciate the non-jargony yet thorough exploration of streaming online video in The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video.Trade Review‘This book is crucial reference material for any library or media economics collection. Highly recommended.’ -- N D Bowman, CHOICE‘In the not-too-distant future all television will stream from the cloud to many devices. Everyone who wants to benefit from this epiphany needs to take Eli Noam’s guidance. This particular vision of the future needs the most visionary person in the field and that is Professor Noam.’ -- Reed Hundt, Former FCC Chairman, US‘Eli Noam gets to the heart of the underlying causes of some of the most dramatic and important changes in our world. His focus on underlying the economics as well as the technology enriches our understanding and provides an excellent guide. This work is essential to anyone seeking a full understanding of the changes being wrought around us and how we might approach the critical policy and commercial questions that they raise.’ -- Ed Richards, Managing Partner/Founder, Flint Global Ltd and former CEO of Ofcom, the UK communications regulator‘In this two-volume tour-de-force on video, Noam nails the multi-dimensional answers to what is consumed and how it is consumed.’ -- Vint Cerf, A ‘Father of the Internet’ and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google‘The Internet, now 50 years old, was not built for video, but today video is most of what it carries. Professor Noam does it for us again with his two volumes about the content of streaming video, in the broadest context, as next-generation television.’ -- Bob Metcalfe, Internet Pioneer and Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas, US‘Professor Eli Noam, one of the world’s leading media economists, identifies key technical advances shaping media, policy and regulation for the digital age. His two volumes are must reading for anyone seriously interested in the future of the media—its business models, creative content, industry structure, and implications for policy and regulation.’ -- William H. Dutton, Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California, USA, and Oxford Martin Fellow and Founding Director, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK‘Changing media consumers behaviors, further advances in digital technologies and a dramatic health and economic crisis, combine to transform the media and telecommunications industries. Eli Noam’s new books present us with current, comprehensive,in-depth, analyses of unprecedented dimensions. The Columbia Professor offers its readers, scholars, students, managers, policy makers, essential present and future industry perspectives.’ -- Gerard Pogorel, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, CNRS Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute I3, France‘These books show how the world’s most impactful medium for entertainment, information, education and marketing will evolve—and why. No one is more qualified to project and describe the future of the media business, technology and regulation than Eli Noam. Numerous authors have chronicled the media industry’s past and present, but this is the first description I’ve seen of where it is going and what it will look like in the future.’ -- Bob Zitter, Former HBO Chief Technology OfficerTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Impending Media Revolution in Video Technology and its Impacts on Today’s and Tomorrow’s Media Industries 2. The Past Generations of TV Technology 3. Technology Innovation: Hardware 4. Infrastructure Platforms and Data Operations 5. Video Platforms 6. Market Power in Cloud Video 7. Business Models for Video Clouds 8. Interoperability and Integration Among Clouds and Other Providers 9. The Impact of Next-Generation Video on Traditional Media Companies and Industries 10. Observations and Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisInnovation for Entrepreneurs presents a powerful but easy to apply toolkit for innovation, based on Professors Meyer and Lee's decades of experience as company founders and innovators for corporations around the globe. This textbook includes guidance for developing new product and service ideas with genuine impact, building teams around these ideas, understanding customers’ needs, translating these needs into compelling product and service designs, and creating initial prototypes. It also helps students learn how to scope and size target markets and position an innovation successfully relative to competitors. These methods are fundamental for any new, impactful venture.The textbook is a series of frameworks and methods that build upon one another to the final deliverable – an innovation project developed by student teams, solving problems for specific types of users and use cases. Each chapter introduces readers to entrepreneurs and their stories of innovation and venture development, across different sectors of the economy and regions of the world. Going to a core theme of the book, each of these entrepreneurs has tackled a societal-focused problem and created economic value for themselves and their investors. These are stories of inspiration and achievement – and they illustrate the major frameworks provided in the book. Each entrepreneur faced a problem or challenge solved by the methods presented in that chapter. The authors’ own entrepreneurial and corporate innovation experiences then complement these examples with additional industry applications of the method. Then, each chapter concludes with exercises for students to apply their newfound knowledge to their innovation projects. The book's final chapter then shows students how to best integrate their work from each chapter into a compelling presentation.Innovation for Entrepreneurs is an essential book for all undergraduate students. Entrepreneurship students in business schools will find it addressing a missing link in many business school curriculums – how to design a distinctive new product or service. At the same time, the methods-based approach combined with its inspiring stories makes this book a great learning platform for engineering and science students thinking about starting their own ventures or working for others upon graduation. Mindful, purposeful innovation is the gift that we wish to share in this book, arming readers with practical, powerful methods. Our students have started many interesting, impactful companies, and with this, have gained the deeper satisfaction of using creativity and technology to help others.Trade Review‘In this book, Professors Marc Meyer and Chaewon Lee offer an innovative approach to studying and learning about the dynamics of innovation. Their experiential approach and their timely focus on social impact make this book a great addition to the literature. The book is a joy to read. It shows that innovation makes our lives better and worth living.’ -- Shaker Zahra, University of Minnesota, US‘Marc Meyer and Chaewon Lee have given us an inspiring book based on their studies of new enterprises around the world and informed by their mentoring generations of students and entrepreneurs. If you have an idea for making our world better, the thoughtful questions raised in Innovation for Entrepreneurs, the clear tools for testing ideas, and the engaging experiences presented will speed your journey toward success.’ -- James M. Utterback, David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation, Emeritus, and MITii Senior Innovation Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, US‘This book is not just about providing frameworks and templates in order to become a better innovator. It is also a voyage of personal discovery in terms of how to channel passion and talent to contribute to society through innovation. Marc H. Meyer and Chaewon Lee bring a nuanced view to developing impact-focused innovation; a must-read for anyone wanting to accomplish their innovative potential.’ -- Raj Echambadi, President, Illinois Institute of Technology, US‘Technological advances are transforming all industries, creating opportunities for innovations that can improve our planet and enhance people’s lives. Professors Meyer and Lee have applied their career-long experience in teaching and coaching entrepreneurs, and as innovators themselves, to create a unique experiential approach to teaching the innovation process, sharing stories from real entrepreneurs as they take the reader through this journey.’ -- Donna Kelley, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Types of innovation 2. Finding the right problem to solve 3. Forming a team 4. Ideation – for and with the user 5. Users, buyers, and use cases 6. Gaining Insight into user needs 7. Product and service design 8. Competitive analysis, positioning, and branding 9. Defining the prototype 10. Understand the broader market opportunity and industry ecosystem 11. Creating a product line and platform strategy 12. Conducting a reality check 13. The final presentation: guidelines and next steps Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection presents fascinating new insights on gender and innovation with a central focus on the experiences of women innovators, exploring different geographic and institutional contexts through a series of in-depth case studies. It investigates how intersecting characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity as well as broader contextual and institutional factors enable and constrain the innovation activities and ambitions of women.Drawing on different theoretical perspectives, expert contributors interrogate questions of gender and innovation to examine the multiple factors influencing women innovators in the contemporary world. The book also engages with how policies can support diversity and inclusion within innovation, an area that has historically been highly gendered. Further to this, it recommends actions to take to support the development of inclusive practices, and identifies directions for future research.Exploring the diversity of gender and innovation as a concept as well as in practice, this book will be a stimulating resource for scholars, educators and students who wish to gain an overview of the topic. Policy makers and practitioners will find the insights on how policies and initiatives can achieve great equality and diversity informative and illuminating.Trade Review‘Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice provides an up-to-date state of the art of what we currently know on diversity, and moreover, on gender diversity. By providing results on on-going research, it brings a fresh and valuable overview on how diversity and inclusion occur across contexts, especially across cultures and countries. Besides, the uniqueness and novelty in this book is the consideration of new working practices and new technological breakthroughs such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), and raises the debate on how these changes can foster or reduce inclusion. For sure, this book, based on scientific results, can inspire not only scholars but also practitioners, educators, as well as policy makers, basically anyone who wants to promote an inclusive economy.’ -- Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France‘This edited collection provides research insights into the challenges faced by women in entrepreneurship and innovation. These insights are particularly valuable to our WEgate community, an initiative partly funded by the European Commission, that is focused on supporting women across Europe to develop and grow their businesses. The original research presented in this book chapters can help policy makers, investors and other stakeholders within the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation, to develop and adopt evidence-based interventions to support women engaged in entrepreneurship and innovation.’ -- Gabriela K. Bogoeska, Foundation for Management and Industrial Research and WEgate Coordinator (https://wegate.eu)‘This book is a timely and valuable addition to contemporary narratives on diversity and inclusion. In Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice, the editors have assembled a robust collection of scholarly contributions that help deconstruct the concept of diversity, revealing it in all its forms. The international contributions highlight the challenges of diversity in a range of contexts - geographical and sectoral - covering issues relating to funding, technology transfer and acquisition, healthcare and science across continents, and drawing attention to innovation in underrepresented forms. Policies, initiatives and ecosystems needed to support diversity within innovation are also discussed. Accordingly, this book will be a valuable tool for policy makers, educators and those involved in supporting the development of innovation within their regions and beyond. The book will enhance understanding - in both theory and practice - of the concept of innovation, and thus, will also appeal to scholars, whether established or new to the field.’ -- Colette Henry, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland and Griffith University, Australia‘This book peels back multiple layers to expose the complexities of gender and diversity in the context of innovation, public policies, gendering innovation, and measures to support equity in and through innovation. Readers are offered a comprehensive digest of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that highlight intersectional influences in both developing and developed economies. The book also captures the practicalities of inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs and academics with the theoretical tensions inherent in identity, femininity and recognition politics, including non-identitarian or post-equity gender theory.From a case-based social innovations in healthcare to cross-cultural comparisons of Artificial Intelligence policies, the authors collectively offer multiple recommendations to help address marginalization within innovation spaces, new technology-based firms, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths). Unified by a focus on gender and subordination, the curated collection of articles is a must-read for entrepreneurship scholars, scientists and policymakers who seek to extend the influence of research and policy to enhance empowerment, equality, equity, and non-discrimination.’ -- Barbara Orser, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada‘Understanding how diversity matters for innovation and entrepreneurship has never been more topical in the context of the digital transformation of our societies. In Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice, Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley, and Helen Lawton Smith challenge us into thinking about innovation and entrepreneurship more inclusively. They illuminate how innovation policies and initiatives have largely remained gender blind, and what can be gained from gender diversity in creativity and innovation processes. People reading this book will truly benefit for the wealth of inspirational examples of how to promote gender inclusive innovation, allowing them to put theory into policy and practice.’ -- Anne Laure Humbert, Oxford Brookes University, UK‘This edited volume assembles leading researchers across career stages and geographies to explore current topics in innovation, through a gendered lens. Taken together, the authors investigate a multitude of theoretical lenses, and offer insights for practice and policy.’ -- Siri Terjesen, Florida Atlantic University, US‘An excellent book which I enjoyed reading, with much food for thought and much to learn from. The editors put together a great group of international scholars who contribute novel insights to the complex theme of gender, diversity, and innovation in entrepreneurship research. Contributors discuss the interplay of gender, diversity and innovation in different contexts, examine new technologies and their gendered impact, and highlight implications for policies and practice. Definitely a must-read for all those interested in up-to-date perspectives on gender, diversity and innovation.’ -- Friederike Welter, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn and University of Siegen, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Dr Emily Nott xii Acknowledgements xiv 1 Introduction: promoting inclusive innovation 1 Tim Vorley, Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla PART I DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS 2 Gender and innovation strategy in crowdfunding 15 James Bort and Azzurra Meoli 3 A gendered multi-level model of STEM entrepreneurship 29 Cecelia Dotzler and M. Gloria González-Morales 4 Increasing women’s representation as founders of university spinout companies: a case for action 46 Heather Griffiths, Simonetta Manfredi, Alexis Still and Charikleia Tzanakou 5 Women entrepreneurs in new technology-based businesses in Sweden: experiences as inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs 63 Besrat Tesfaye and Christina Wainikka 6 Is gender an inhibitor to innovation and entrepreneurial activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo? 80 Victoria Tonks and Helen Lawton Smith 7 From gendered social innovation to gendering social innovation and co-production in healthcare settings 96 Silvia Cervia 8 Underrepresented innovators: an assessment of innovation activities in women-led businesses in the UK 110 Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Elvis Nyanzu PART II INNOVATION POLICIES, INITIATIVES AND ECOSYSTEMS 9 Beyond Siri and Alexa: gender and AI policy 125 Vidhula Venugopal and Vishal Rituraj 10 Targeting in targeted funds: how inclusion policies and programs can exclude intended beneficiaries 148 Katindi Sivi 11 Making gendered science: a feminist perspective on the epistemology of innovation based on science and technology studies 167 Ilenia Picardi 12 The impact of institutional voids on female innovation in emerging countries 185 Allan Villegas-Mateos and Rosa Morales 13 Informal institutional structures and legitimacy perceptions of female innovation in sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptual framework 202 Priscilla Otuo, Cynthia Forson, Afua Owusu-Kwarteng and Anthony N-Yelkabong 14 Women’s entrepreneurship in the inclusive innovation ecosystem in Canada 223 Wendy Cukier, Guang Ying Mo and Jodi-Ann Francis PART III CONCLUSION 15 Afterword 240 Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Helen Lawton Smith Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a growing class of entrepreneurs who, for a range of reasons, are working to create viable alternatives to mainstream production and consumption models. Existing literature that cuts across multiple fields illustrates the unique features, challenges, and value propositions of alternative forms of entrepreneurship. Yet, the complexities associated with how alternative marketscapes form and function remain “fuzzy.” Volume 29 of Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth asks, “How alternative are alternative marketscapes?” In doing so, greater clarity is gained on the underlying economic, organizational, and social conditions and environments within which alternative marketscapes develop. The volume includes theoretical arguments and case studies that view alternative entrepreneurship not as co-existing with, but rather transforming mainstream entrepreneurship, and challenge the understanding of alternative entrepreneurship as being inherently altruistic. The exploration of ingenuity and innovation, in conjunction with cases that illustrate the diversity of alternative market contexts, generates organizational and system-level applications. The volume authors provide entrepreneurs and companies a concise understanding of alternative marketscapes that paves the way for development and success.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Towards a Theory of Misfit Entrepreneurship: Insights from Alternative Enterprises and Misfit Entrepreneurs; Craig A. Talmage, Kaleb Boyl, and T. Alden Gassert Chapter 2. Alternative Entrepreneurship: Tracing the Creative Destruction of Entrepreneurship; Jessica Lindbergh, Karin Berglund, and Birgitta Schwartz Chapter 3. Van Gogh’s Yellow House and Organizational Centrifugalism: The Avant-Garde’s Search for Alternative Organizational Spaces from Impressionism through Modernism; Gordon E. Shockley Chapter 4. Overlooking the Not-So-Routine? An Analysis of Everyday Ingenuity in the Social Entrepreneurship Research; Matthew M. Mars Chapter 5. A Visual Analysis of Local Food Product Framing Across Alternative and Conventional Marketspaces; Tyler E. Thorp Chapter 6.The Pitfalls within Alternative Food Networks: A Comparison between Japan’s Wholesale Market System and Alternative Market Distribution Challenge; Chika Kondo and Atushi Suzuki Chapter 7. Community Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development: A Case Study of Startup Tucson; Liz Pocock

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from nearly 50 researchers across Latin America, The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Unleashing a millennial potential contains the most important debates on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in Latin America. Covering the most recent topics that influence Latin America’s entrepreneurial dynamics, chapters are written by specialists from Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, England, Venezuela, Spain & Peru. The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America presents a detailed and extensive review of the most relevant literature published in Latin America, critically analysing and exposing historical processes along with emerging debates, suggesting future paths for its entrepreneurship ecosystems, agents, sectors and regions. The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America offers new perspectives and will change the way the global arena sees Latin America. A first must-have reference for present and future researchers, corporate executives, and business schools with the aim to understand the challenges and opportunities this region has in the global, national, and regional arenas, a timely text most relevant than ever given the post pandemic context that present and future generations will confront with.Table of ContentsSection I Creativity & Entrepreneurship in Latin America Chapter 1. Creativity & Entrepreneurship in Latin America: The Time Has Come; Hortensia Mínguez García, Oscar Montiel, and Araceli Almaraz Chapter 2. The Historical Institutional Context in Latin America in the Promotion of the Creativity Process of Entrepreneurship; Rebeca de Gortari Rabiela and María Josefa Santos Corral Chapter 3. The Orange Economy, Entrepreneurs, and the Future: The Role of Culture and Creativity in the Economic Recovery;Trinidad Zaldívar Chapter 4. Organizational Creativity Process: Experiences in Latin America; Henrique Muzzio Chapter 5. The Institutional Change of Intellectual Property Commercialization; Ignacio De León and Esteban Santamaria Chapter 6. Media Labs: Catalyzing Experimental, Structural, Learning, and Process Innovation; Ana Cecília B.Nunes, John Mills, and Eduardo Campos Pellanda Testimonial: Association Our Godchildren of Guatemala (ANA de G) (Asociación Nuestros Ahijados de Guatemala); Vanessa Rodas de Montenegro Section II Innovation; Entrepreneurship in Latin America Chapter 7. Innovation in Latin-America: An Eternal Recurrence?; Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón, Oscar Montiel, and Araceli Almaraz Chapter 8. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Latin American Thought Approach; Javier Jasso Villazul, Ismael Núñez Ramírez, and Arturo Torres Vargas Chapter 9. Transforming Innovation Systems for Sustainable Development Challenges: A Latin American Perspective; Claudia De Fuentes and Jahan Ara Peerally Chapter 10. University Knowledge Transfer to Its Environment and STI Policies; Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón Chapter 11. Capabilities, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Startups in Latin America; Javier Jasso Villazul and Arturo Torres Vargas Chapter 12. Social Innovation in Latin America: Debate and Experiences; Mario Vargas Saenz Chapter 13. Start-ups, Gender Disparities, and the Fintech Revolution in Latin America; Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo and Ignacio González-Correa Chapter 14. Entrepreneurship Dynamics in Latin America: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Perspective; José Ernesto Amorós Testimonial: Encouraging interdisciplinary entrepreneurship in higher education: What drives and challenges us? Lessons from IDEAR Lab in Brazil; Naira Maria Lobraico Libermann and Ana Cecília B. Nunes Section III The Past and Future of Entrepreneurship in Latin America Chapter 15. New Momentum for Entrepreneurship: Latin America’s 4th Wave; Oscar Montiel, Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón, and Araceli Almaraz Chapter 16. An Entrepreneurial Perspective of the Mesoamerican Civilizations: Implications for Latin America; Anel Flores Novelo and Oscar Montiel Chapter 17. Research Priorities In Entrepreneurship In Latin America; Christian A. Cancino and Bruce Lezana Chapter 18. Social Entrepreneurship, a Forceful Social Fact: An Analysis of Studies from Latin America; Mariana Zerón Félix, Claudia Milena Álvarez Giraldo, and Cristian Alejandro Rubalcava de León Chapter 19. The Earlier Impact Of Covid-19 on Entrepreneurship on Latin America: A Review and Research Agenda; Rosalina Torres-Ortega and Carlos Alberto Santamaria-Velasco Chapter 20. A Psychological Profile of the Latin American Entrepreneur; Marisol Morales Rodríguez Chapter 21. The Potential of Biographical Studies of Latin American Entrepreneurs for Business, Economic History and Related Fields: The Cases of Mexico and Colombia; Carlos Dávila Ladrón de Guevara, Araceli Almaraz, and Mario Cerutti Chapter 22. Entrepreneurial Migration Processes from and to Latin America: Opportunities and Obstacles; Elizabeth Salamanca Chapter 23. A Theoretical Analysis of Entrepreneurship Education: Lessons From Mexico, Chile, and Colombia; Dra. María de los Dolores González-Saucedo and Lic. Diana Karen Vélez-Sánchez Chapter 24. Political Corruption & Entrepreneurship in Latin America: An Understanding of Their Interactions and the Suitability of Regional Solution Proposals; Yoel Modesto Gonzalez Bravo Chapter 25. The Tourism Chain and Entrepreneurship in South America: An Overview; Fernando Armas Asín and Martin Monsalve Zanatti Chapter 26. Analysing Successions in Family Business History: Theory and Method; Araceli Almaraz and Manuel Llorca-Jaña Chapter 27. Negotiation and Entrepreneurship From the Perspective of Economic Institutionalism: A Case for Latin America; Oscar Montiel, Rosa Azalea Canales García, and Oscar Alejandro Vásquez Bernal Testimonial: Uruguayan Young Entrepreneurs Association (AJE); Florencia Alvarez-García and Mario Cerutti Pignat

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Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive review of contemporary research on inclusive innovation, chapters address the systemic, structural issues that present the 'grand challenges' of our time. With 27 contributions from 57 expert scholars, this Handbook highlights both emerging practices and scalable solutions. Acting as a call to action, the chapters place social impact at the heart of theory and practice, providing fresh insight into global issues and practical solutions. Organized into five distinct sections to reflect current theoretical approaches and frameworks, contributions cover social innovation as practice; community and place; systems, institution and infrastructure; individual, organizations and organizing, and networks and social change. This Handbook emphasises the fundamental shift needed in management scholarship to address global problems and achieve social impact through sustainable development goals. This will be an invaluable resource for those championing social inclusion in both research and practice, including innovation researchers and management scholars more broadly.Trade Review'Bravo! Inclusive innovation is one of the most important topics in management research. Yet, there has been no standard reference available for mapping out the topic and providing a systematic discussion of what we know and what remains to be done. In this essential contribution, George, Baker, Tracey and Joshi have brought together many of the leading scholars on the topic and have provided a much needed overview. This will undoubtedly become the key reference in inclusive innovation.' --Nelson Phillips, Imperial College Business School, London, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Inclusion and Innovation: A Call to Action Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey and Havovi Joshi PART II SOCIAL INNOVATION IN PRACTICE 2. A Silent Evolution: Innovative and Inclusive Narratives on Sustainability Ana Cristina Campos Marques 3. Climate Change and Social Innovation Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg 4. Problem, person, and pathway: A framework for social innovators Julie Battilana, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis and Christian Seelos 5. Inclusion and Innovation in Healthcare Anita M. McGahan 6. How do we know when social innovation works? A review and contingency model of social impact assessment Greg Molecke and Anne-Claire Pache PART III COMMUNITY AND PLACE 7. Indigenous Social Innovation: What Is Distinctive? And a Research Agenda Ana María Peredo, Murdith McLean, Crystal Tremblay 8. Urban Innovation: At the nexus of urban policy and entrepreneurship Jeffrey A. Robinson, Amol M. Joshi, Lutisha Vickerie-Dearman and Todd Inouye 9. Community social innovation: Taking a long view on community enterprise Neil Stott, Michelle Fava and Natalie Slawinski 10. Collective Social Innovation: Leveraging Custodianship, Tradition and Place on Fogo Island M. Tina Dacin and Peter A. Dacin PART IV SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, AND INFRASTRUCTURE 11. Coordinating Infrastructure Changes to Meet Retiring Baby Boomers’ Needs David Souder 12. Sustainable Technology-Enabled Innovations for Ageing-in-Place: The Singapore Example Hwee-Pink Tan and Hwee-Xian Tan 13. How Firms Bring Social Innovation and Efficiency to the Global Effort to Recover From national uncertainty shocks Luis Ballesteros 14. The Lack of Public Goods in Emergent Economies: A Call for Research and a Case Study of Innovative Organisational Design Nuno Gil 15. An institutional framework to the scaling up of inclusive social innovations: the case of La Salada Silvia Dorado and Pablo D. Fernández 16. Social Innovation as Institutional Work Warren Nilsson 17. Challenges for Global Supply Chains and Opportunities for Social Innovation Yong H. Kim and Gerald F. Davis PART V INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZING 18. Emotions as the Glue, the Fuel and the Rust of Social Innovation Charlene Zietsma and Madeline Toubiana 19. Income Inequality: Consequences and Implications for Social Innovation Xiang Zhou and Jason D. Shaw 20. Frugal Innovation and Social Innovation: Linked Paths to Achieving Inclusion Sustainably Yasser Bhatti and Jaideep Prabhu 21. Climate Change and Entrepreneurship Elizabeth Embry, Jessica Jones and Jeffrey G. York 22. A Framework for Sustaining Hybridity in Social Enterprises: Combining Differentiating and Integrating Marya Besharov, Wendy Smith and Tiffany Darabi 23. Organizing for global change Yves Plourde PART VI NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CHANGE 24. Collaborative Governance Ann Florini 25. Inclusive Innovation through Alliance Networks Arno Kourula 26. Social Entrepreneurs as Network Orchestrators: A Framework and Research Agenda on Networks and Leadership in the Context of Social Innovation Christian Busch and Harry Barkema 27. Empowerment, Social Innovation and Social Change Helen M Haugh and Maggie O’Carroll Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This cutting-edge Research Agenda takes a hard look at workplace innovation practices that are vital for dealing with the global disruptive changes we currently face. It unpacks the ways in which organisations can become more sustainable, not only for value creation and profitability but also for sustainable employability and employee skill development.Exploring the ways in which workplace innovation provided necessary safeguards to deal with technological and environmental change, chapters provide a state-of-the art discussion of the topic in light of digital disruption and the Green Revolution. These areas of concern do not beg for one overall solution but for more resilient organisations in general. Bringing together the most renowned scholars in the field of workplace innovation from Europe, Australia and Asia, this Research Agenda looks at how we can learn to tackle these issues on an international level.With invaluable insight into workplace innovation spanning companies and individuals, nations and regions this Research Agenda explores the results of workplace innovation practices in very different global contexts. It will be of great value to researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, consultants and students of workplaces, organisations, human behaviour and digital transitions.Trade Review‘Digital disruption is widespread across our economies and societies. Bringing together an array of highly qualified contributors, this timely book contains important theory, research and analysis on this challenging phenomenon. It includes valuable guidance on how to engage with digital transformation through the mutually beneficial process of workplace innovation.’ -- Peter Boxall, University of Auckland, New Zealand‘The organization of work and the workplace is under stress. COVID-19 is one example but the longstanding pressure of technological change is another as are labor supply shocks flowing from demographics. How are organizations adapting? What constitutes best practice? What are the consequences of different strategies for the organization and for the workforce? These are urgent questions and via thoughtful comparative chapters A Research Agenda for Workplace Innovation provides answers. This is a timely and much needed contribution.’ -- Paul Osterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, US‘An insightful and fascinating book that will reshape the way you approach innovation in this challenging and disruptive era of unprecedented digital transformation. This book will provide you with tools and strategies to successfully navigate workplace innovation transition and manage the impacts of technology to support and empower your future workforce…read this book and learn from the best!’ -- Al Jawhari, Innovate Inn Pty Ltd, Australia‘As the world moves to ever greater integration of technology with economic, social, and environmental issues, this work sets the scene for transitioning the workplace through technology adoption. This is a powerful and timely edition with logically organised parts and international cases. It will prove to be a valuable resource for managers and scholars alike.’ -- Allan O’Connor, University of South Australia‘This book is timely published when digital technologies are transforming work across the globe. It is an invaluable contribution to how inclusively to combine human labour and disruptive technologies by analyzing various country experiences of workplace innovation in the context of new technologies and COVID-19.’ -- Kiu Sik Bae, formerly president of Korea Labour Institute, current standing member of Korean Economic, Social and Labour Council‘As with every previous wave of change, the information revolution and the green transition are bound to transform both consumption and work patterns. This book takes a deep look at the workplace transformation and how to go about doing it well and studying it. Important, useful, and timely for academics, managers, and workers.’ -- Carlota Perez, Author of Technological Revolutions and financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages; University College London, University of Sussex, UK and TalTech, EstoniaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xix 1 An Introduction to the Research Agenda for Workplace Innovation 1 Steven Dhondt, Adela J. McMurray and Peter R.A. Oeij PART I TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANISATION: NEW TECHNOLOGY AS A DRIVER FOR CHANGE IN THE ORGANISATION, FOR ITS WORK PROCESSES AND THE WORK OF EMPLOYEES 2 Workplace innovation at the digital frontier 15 Steven Dhondt, Peter R.A. Oeij and Gerben Hulsegge 3 Analysing production disturbances for aligning work organisation, human resource management, and digital transformation 35 Ezra Dessers, Monique Ramioul, Yennef Vereycken, Michiel Bal, Ine Smits and Geert Van Hootegem 4 Augmented telework with avatar technology: impact on workplace and required actions 51 Kentaro Watanabe 5 The impact of technology on work: enabling workplace innovation by technological and organisational choice 67 Peter R.A. Oeij, Gerben Hulsegge and Wouter van der Torre 6 Workplace innovation in the digital era: a role for SMART work design 91 Sharon Kaye Parker and Alexandra A. Boeing 7 How can the Korean workplace become conducive to workplace innovation? Learning from a case study of a manufacturing firm 113 Se Ri No and Kyetaik Oh 8 Examining workplace innovation as a driver for innovation in the public sector: evidence from Australia 129 Mahmoud Moussa and Adela McMurray PART II INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR CONTRIBUTING TO PERFORMANCE GOALS: WORKPLACE ENGAGEMENT TO IMPROVE THE BUSINESS AND THE QUALITY OF WORK 9 The determination of a psychological workplace innovation construct 147 Adela J. McMurray and Don Scott 10 Job crafting and work engagement among remote workers in Italy: Lessons for workplace innovation 167 Arianna Costantini and Serena Rubini 11 Ethical leadership as workplace innovation and enabler for employee commitment and innovative work behaviours in Vietnam 183 Michael K. Muchiri, Hiep Cong Pham, Mathews Nkhoma and Adela J. McMurray PART III CONVERGENCE, POLICY ABOUT WORKPLACE INNOVATION, AND THE AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE 12 A converging or diverging research field? 201 Peter R.A. Oeij, Steven Dhondt and Adela J. McMurray 13 Towards research-based policy and practice of workplace innovation in Europe 255 Frank D. Pot, Tuomo Alasoini, Peter Totterdill and Claudio Zettel 14 Developing a scientific and policy research agenda for workplace innovation: an invitation for conversation and collaboration 273 Peter R.A. Oeij, Steven Dhondt and Adela J. McMurray Index

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Book SynopsisExpansive and engaging, the Research Handbook on Innovation in International Business takes a deep dive into technological, organisational, firm, and industry-level innovation. Contributions from leading experts in international business cover large multinational firms to SMEs and emerging markets, providing industry-specific insights into innovative solutions from across the globe. Featuring chapters exploring the organisation of innovative activities across borders, the role of alliances and networks on innovation, and the impact of the internet on internationalising SMEs and thus advancing global innovations, this incisive Research Handbook constitutes a richly-detailed study into the field. Contributors investigate innovation on a vast scale, offering a critical examination of EU regulation in facilitating or inhibiting innovation in industry, as well as delving into the current economic policies of special economic zones in Russia and China as areas for innovative solutions. Academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of international business and organisational innovation will find this engaging Research Handbook an invaluable resource, for its wide-ranging exploration into innovations in international business as well as its perspectives on innovation in this age of accelerated technological development.Trade Review‘Handbooks are seldom innovative, even when they are about innovation, but this volume on innovations in international business stands out by its refreshingly diverse and up-to-date collection of contributions. Editors Dikova and Ipsmiller have done an excellent job in putting together a Handbook that covers considerable ground in terms of topics, industries, and geography, and which provides a nice balance between useful overviews and new empirical insights. The list of authors includes several well-established professors in the area as well as upcoming researchers. In all, a most useful addition to the literature on the evermore important issue of innovation for firms that compete globally.’ -- Gabriel R.G. Benito, BI Norwegian Business School, NorwayTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Innovation in International Business 1 Desislava Dikova and Edith Ipsmiller 2 The relationship between innovation and internationalization of SMEs: a review of theoretical perspectives 6 Yusaf Akbar, Marco Balzano and Guido Bortoluzzi 3 The role of institutions in the context of innovation in international entrepreneurship: transforming uncertainty from being a threat to becoming an asset 34 Igor Kalinic 4 The internet and internationalization: a review and future research agenda 52 Edith Ipsmiller and Desislava Dikova 5 Innovation in international mid-sized corporations: understanding their R&D offshoring characteristics 99 Josephine Igoe, Chad Trevithick and Esther Tippmann 6 Innovation performance in collectivist societies: a network perspective 114 Susanne Scherer, Jonas Puck, Mario Glowik, Gregor Binder and Thomas Lindner 7 Contextual ambidexterity in the subsidiary: how exploration and exploitation interact to drive subsidiary strategic initiatives and innovation 135 Marty Reilly, Shaen Corbet, Pamela Sharkey Scott and Ulf Andersson 8 Talent circulation for innovation activities: the agenda for states and firms 157 Marina Latukha and Nikita Kuleshov 9 Digital outsidership: the practical and affective effects of digitalization in international business relationships between Kenyan and German firms 177 Sonja Mattfeld, Dorota Piaskowska and Tilo Halaszovich 10 A bricolage perspective on construction innovation in a BOP market: evidence from a Finnish family-owned micro-enterprise 206 Samppa Kamara, Ahmad Arslan, Minnie Kontkanen and Shlomo Y. Tarba 11 Innovation and internationalization in the Indian pharmaceutical sector: the moderating role of ownership structures 219 Saptarshi Purkayastha, Tatiana S. Manolova and Linda F. Edelman 12 Innovation in the global pharmaceutical industry: the role of regulations in the EU 239 Ernest Jedrzejewski and Desislava Dikova 13 International cooperation on technology innovation development: a case study from the maritime industry 264 Marina Z. Solesvik 14 Cities and regions with special economic zones as innovation hubs within the Belt and Road Initiative 275 Andrei Panibratov and Liana Rysakova Index

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Book SynopsisProviding nuanced insight into key areas of innovation studies, this erudite second edition acknowledges the significance of innovation within the informal economy. It contributes to the broader scholarly discourse on innovation indicators and measurement, exploring the nature and rate of recent developments within the field. The Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement showcases recent advancements within the field of innovation and provides an expansive commentary on contemporary issues such as the effect of the general definition of innovation on zero price products. Updated chapters emphasise rapid changes brought about by digital developments and provide a further examination of the influence of people on social and frugal innovation. This essential second edition will be valuable for university lecturers and academics of economics, public policy and innovation aspiring to update their course content. It will additionally be beneficial for those working in government departments pursuing more effective policy intervention.Trade Review‘”To measure is to know”. There is probably no other area than innovation where this saying seems appropriate. Or where similar sayings, such as “if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” or “what gets measured gets done” have a particular relevance to public policy. From improving the industrial competitiveness of a country or region to responding to old and new social and environmental challenges, in practically all countries of the world, innovation policy has emerged over the last decades as a crucial policy area. Fred Gault, the international expert in the field of innovation statistics and indicators, and his expert colleagues, Anthony Arundel and Erika Kraemer-Mbula, provide, in this second edition of the Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement, an essential update and revision of the progress made in the way we look in a quantitative way at innovation. Much has indeed changed over the last ten years. This book provides an invaluable addition to our knowledge of the ubiquitous nature of innovation.’ -- Luc Soete, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands‘This Handbook provides invaluable insights into the constantly broadening scope of innovation. Presenting debates on both innovation indicators and measurement, the book provides both detailed and comprehensive advice on the design, use and assessment of innovation measurement. A thought-provoking read for innovation researchers and practitioners.’ -- Jari Kuusisto, University of Vaasa, Finland‘Fred Gault is the dean of innovation indicators. The first edition of this Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement, published in 2013, played a critical role in defining and synthesizing knowledge about the measurement of innovation. It became a mandatory source of information for anyone, or any government, hoping to measure, or establish useful indicators about, technological innovation. Now, Gault, with experts Anthony Arundel and Erika Kraemer-Mbula, the authority of the book on innovation and how to craft policy capable of promoting the invention of new technologies, offer their own insights, and gather together perspectives of other top experts from around the world. In this second edition the editors shine a brilliant light on how to measure innovation, but also how further to improve it.’ -- Andrew W. Torrance, University of Kansas, US‘Professors Gault, Arundel and Kraemer-Mbula have edited an excellent volume of pertinent and timely articles on indicators of innovation and the challenges of measurement. Their work, and that of their collaborators, is of particular significance as humanity is confronted by a multiplicity of interconnected and interdependent contradictions, crises and catastrophes resulting from at least two and a half centuries of combined, uneven and inequitable development in world systems. The need for creatively destroying our shared futures has never been more urgent and as well supported internationally. As we advance further into the 21st century of our common era, it is becoming increasingly apparent to all that the current structural and institutional models of development require urgent critique and transformation. The three editors together with their nearly 37 chapter authors have collated an important and useful guide to the measurement of creative destruction and have further engaged with some of the key challenges emanating from the praxis of innovation management and support. The book is organised in eight parts and 23 chapters. The book covers aspects of innovation policy that were often excluded by other mainstream analysis but that have especially grown in importance in the last two decades. I wholeheartedly endorse the book, and sincerely recommend it to all students, scholars and policy-workers involved in innovation studies as well as those seeking to better understand the contemporary conjuncture framed in the discourses of development.’ -- Rasigan Maharajh, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa‘This Handbook provides invaluable insights into the constantly broadening scope of innovation. Presenting debates on both innovation indicators and measurement, the book provides both detailed and comprehensive advice on the design, use and assessment of innovation measurement. A thought-provoking read for innovation researchers and practitioners.’ -- Jari Kuusisto, University of Vaasa, FinlandTable of ContentsContents: PART I WHY INDICATORS MATTER 1 Innovation indicators and measurement: an overview 2 Fred Gault PART II DEFINITIONS 2 The Oslo Manual and standards 12 Fred Gault PART III THE BUSINESS SECTOR AND THE OSLO MANUAL 3 Innovation measurement and policy in Japan: potentials of the general definition of innovation for measurement from a systems approach viewpoint 19 Tomohiro Ijichi 4 Microbusiness innovation in the United States: making sense of the largest and most variegated firm size class 31 John E. Jankowski, Timothy R. Wojan and Audrey E. Kindlon 5 Innovation panel surveys in Germany: the Mannheim Innovation Panel 54 Bettina Peters and Christian Rammer 6 Low-technology modes of innovation in the business sector: expanding measurement perspectives 88 Fernanda Reichert and Kieran O’Brien 7 A taxonomy of innovation ‘profiles’ for innovative and non-innovative firms: examples from the European Community Innovation Survey 111 Hugo Hollanders PART IV BEYOND THE BUSINESS SECTOR 8 Household innovation: its nature, measurement, applications and outlook 136 Jeroen P.J. de Jong and Eric von Hippel 9 Measuring public sector innovation 158 Anthony Arundel and Pierre Schoonraad 10 Measuring environmental (eco-) innovation 177 René Kemp, Christian Rammer and Anthony Arundel 11 Assessing the impact of social innovation 197 Frank Moulaert and Diana MacCallum PART V MEASUREMENT AND TECHNOLOGIES 12 Measuring the digital transformation 221 Leonid Gokhberg, Gulnara Abdrakhmanova, Ekaterina Streltsova and Konstantin Vishnevskiy 13 Technology measurement in statistics and beyond: reviving technological innovation concept 240 Leonid Gokhberg, Konstantin Fursov and Vitaliy Roud 14 Measuring frontier technology adoption in developing countries 260 Edward Lorenz and Erika Kraemer-Mbula 15 Gender and innovation: indicators and measurement gaps 278 Aubrey DeVeny Incorvaia, Kaye Husbands Fealing and Londa Schiebinger 16 Inclusive innovation and how it can be measured in developed and developing countries 297 E. Louise Earl, Claudia De Fuentes, Jeff Kinder and R. Sandra Schillo 17 Hybrid innovation surveys: combining subject and object approaches to innovation measurement 323 Anthony Arundel 18 Measuring the use of design thinking and co-creation for innovation 342 Anne Jørgensen Nordli and Stefanie Gesierich 19 Measuring innovation in the informal economy: current knowledge and open issues 363 Erika Kraemer-Mbula 20 Advancing the measurement of frugal innovation 375 Maria Alejandra Pineda-Escobar, Valentina De Marchi and Peter Knorringa 21 A critical assessment of the European Innovation Scoreboard 391 Hugo Hollanders 22 Application of innovation measurement to policy: views from Africa 415 Almamy Konté and Sévérin Ekpe 23 Where are innovation indicators and measurement going? 432 Anthony Arundel, Erika Kraemer-Mbula and Fred Gault Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook presents thoughtful analysis on how regulations can impact innovation within a number of fields and markets, and provides a greater understanding of regulatory complexity and the challenging task it presents for future research.The Handbook of Innovation and Regulation embraces some of the key policy areas such as the regulation of markets, critical sectors, and global and regional aspects, focussing particularly on those regulations which target innovation. Reviewing these often interconnected policy areas in terms of both macroeconomic and microeconomic issues, this Handbook expertly studies how regulations in differing fields can affect innovative activities. By placing innovation centre stage, the contributors emphasise the direct and indirect effects of imposed regulations. Further, they illustrate the critically important overall impact of innovation to make firms competitive, promote economic growth and increase societal welfare.Addressing research and policy challenges, this Handbook would be an excellent resource for academics in regulatory economics, innovation and entrepreneurship, international trade, regional economics as well as environment and digitisation and policymakers in both national and international organisations.Trade Review‘This Handbook offers new insights into the important question of how policy officials can best encourage welfare-enhancing innovation. Relying on rigorous theory, research, and evidence, it provides a nuanced but applied and accessible evaluation of how regulations can support or hinder emerging products and practices in a range of sectors and areas.’ -- Susan Dudley, The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, US‘This book provides a thoughtful examination of the complicated and sometimes unexpected relationships between regulation and innovation. It is an excellent read for policy makers and scholars who must weigh the forms, design, and trade-offs of regulation for an innovative society.’ -- Sameeksha Desai, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Handbook of Innovation and Regulation: introductory chapter 1 Pontus Braunerhjelm, Martin Andersson, Knut Blind and Johan E. Eklund PART I MARKETS, REGULATIONS AND INNOVATION 2 Innovation and market structure: policy implications 22 David B. Audretsch 3 The influence of regulation on technological innovation and entry 33 Maria Minniti and Almantas Palubinskas 4 Testing the envelope: the unanticipated effects of regulations on entrepreneurship 57 Robert Eberhart 5 Labor market regulations, innovation and technological change 70 Pontus Braunerhjelm, Johan E. Eklund and Maurice Kugler 6 Innovation in the informal economy 93 Jeremy de Beer, Kun Fu and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent PART II REGULATION OF KEY SECTORS: DIGITIZED PLATFORMS, CLIMATE CHALLENGES AND INNOVATION 7 Innovation and competition on digital platforms 119 Martin Mandorff and Sten Nyberg 8 Environmental economics, regulation and innovation 141 Mads Greaker and David Popp 9 Innovation policy, regulation and the transition to net zero 163 Jan Fagerberg and Håkon E. Normann PART III REGULATION OF KEY INDUSTRIES: URBAN TRANSPORT, BUILDING AND INNOVATION 10 Innovative urban transportation and economic regulation 193 Kenneth Button 11 Innovation and building-related regulations 213 Hans Lind PART IV GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ASPECTS ON REGULATION, KNOWLEDGE FLOWS AND INNOVATION 12 The overall impact of economic, social and institutional regulation on innovation: an update 230 Knut Blind 13 EU regulation: hindering or stimulating innovation? 263 Andrea Renda and Jacques Pelkmans 14 Barriers to trade and innovation 294 Carlo Altomonte and Maria Luisa Mancusi PART V SPECIFIC REGULATIONS TARGETING INNOVATIONS 15 R&D tax credits: a review and an econometric study on efficient policy mixes 318 Birgitte Hovdan, Dirk Czarnitzki and Pierluigi Angelino 16 Regulation of patents and the impact on innovation 346 Nikolaus Thumm 17 Innovation-promoting impacts of public procurement 373 Elvira Uyarra, Oishee Kundu, Raquel Ortega-Argiles and Malcolm Harbour 18 Dedicated regulation: translating missions into regulation 396 Andreas Pyka, Ezgi Ari and Stephanie Lang Index 410

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Book SynopsisWhile knowledge-intensive environments encourage and foster new ideas for products, services, production methods and business models, they also entail high levels of risk derived from the fast and dynamically changing nature of technology. This Handbook explores the new theoretical frameworks that are needed to cope with the growing relevance of techno-entrepreneurship initiatives globally. Demonstrating that techno-entrepreneurship and its ecosystems create opportunities across national borders, this Handbook also shows how they proactively shape their business environment and engage in more complex collaborative networks. Chapters cover emerging areas in the field, such as frugal innovation, the drone industry and gender-specific entrepreneurship. Separated into sections dedicated to entrepreneurial ecosystems - with original research into incubators, accelerators and crowd funding - and techno-entrepreneurship across countries, the contributors examine specific issues that arise in context. With international scope, this Handbook will be an essential read for entrepreneurship and innovation scholars. Any researcher with an interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems will also benefit from the original research presented.Table of ContentsContents: Part I Conceptualisation 1. Technological Embeddedness as a Determinant of Techno-Entrepreneurship Sang-Joon Kim and Juil Lee Part II New categories of Entrepreneurship 2. Reverse Innovation: Review of a Decade Max von Zedtwitz and Marine Hadengue 3. Modes and Routines of Frugal Innovation: An Examination on the Basis of the Auto Components Industry Rajnish Tiwari and Stephan Bergmann 4. The Interplay of Technology Entrepreneurs and Regulation in a New Industry: The Case of the Drone Industry Ferran Giones, Kerem Gurses and Alexander Brem 5. Unveiling Women Entrepreneurship in Technology Ventures: Gendered Organization and Gendered Society Interactions Dilek Cetindamar and Berna Beyhan Part III Ecosystems 6. Techno-entrepreneurship development support in theory and practice: the case of incubators and accelerators in Canada Fabiano Armellini, Cynthie Dega, Angie Garcia and Francisco Machado 7. Crowdfunding as a tool for innovation marketing: technology entrepreneurship commercialization strategies Ferran Giones and Alexander Brem 8. Fostering Techno-Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation Practices in the Innovation Ecosystems – Case Nokia Jarkko Pellikka and Timo Ali-Vehmas 9. Digital technologies, techno-entrepreneurship and regional ecosystems: The case of The Net Value Moreno Frau and Ludovica Moi Part IV Academic Entrepreneurship 10. Research-based spin-offs as agents of knowledge dissemination: evidence from the analysis of innovation networks Oscarina Conceição, Cristina Sousa and Margarida Fontes 11. Individual Innovativeness as a driver of career success: academic tehno-experts in an entreprneeurial ecosystem Anna-Maija Nisula and Heidi Olander Part V Country-specific entrepreneurship 12. SME Techno-Entrepreneurship: Drivers and Barriers in sub-Saharan Africa Olayinka David-West, Omotayo Muritala and Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro 13. Entrepreneurship, technological knowledge and industrial heterogeneity: Evidence from Italian NUTS3 regions. Alessandra Colombelli, Gianluca Orsatti and Francesco Quatraro 14. Nurturing Healthy Korean Startup Ecosystem Gyewan Moon 15. Understanding the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from a longitudinal case study Maria Cristina Cinici, Valeria Schifilliti and Fabrizio Cesaroni Index

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Book SynopsisWith the radical growth in the ubiquity of digital platforms, the sharing economy is here to stay. This Handbook explores the nature and direction of the sharing economy, interrogating its key dynamics and evolution over the past decade and critiquing its effect on society. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, this Handbook analyses labour, governance, trust and consumption in the contemporary sharing economy. It questions the apparent contradiction between its components: the moral economy of small-scale communal sharing versus the far-flung reaches of the market economy. Chapters explore ways to resolve this paradox, theorizing hybrid economic forms and considering the replacement of human trust inherent in the sharing economy with a transactional reputation economy. Featuring a variety of both conceptual explorations and empirical investigations in a variety of different cross-cultural contexts, this Handbook illustrates how and, more importantly, why the sharing economy has reshaped marketplaces, and will continue to disrupt them as it develops. Written in an accessible style, this thorough Handbook offers crucial insights for researchers across a variety of disciplines interested in the trajectories of modern consumption, as well as students studying the sharing economy. Practitioners, policy makers and public speakers working in and around the sharing economy will also benefit from this book's unique analysis of trends in consumer economics. Contributors include: A. Arvidsson, G. Avram, F. Bardhi, H. Bartling, M. Baz Radwan, R. Belk, H.H. Chang, A. Chattopadhyay, R. Corten, D. Dalli, A. DeCrop, N. Drozdova, G. Eckhardt, T. Eriksson, E. Fischer, F. Fortezza, A. Gandini, A. Gessinger, A. Graul, A. Gruen, A.J. Hawley, I. Kleppe, S. Kurtmollaiev, M. Laamanen, C. Laurell, C.X. Li, A. Light, R.J. Lutz, J. Mallargé, K. Mikolajewska-Zaj c, L. Mimoun, M. Möhlmann, O. Mont, J. Morales, A. Mukherjee, C. Oberg, L.K. Ozanne, E. Papaoikonomou, G. Patsiaouras, C. Pitt, K. Plangger, M. Rocas-Royo, A. Ryan, C. Sandstrom, M. Saren, K. Strzyczkowski, W. Suetzl, T. Teubner, C. Valor, P. van den Bussche, G. von Richthofen, Y. Voytenko Palgen, S. Wahlen, T. Widlok, P. Zidda, L. Zvolska Trade Review'This Handbook offers wide-ranging investigations and essays into the sharing economy. It takes the reader through a deep and critical look at this new way of organizing markets and society. While exposing the promise, practices, and paradoxes of these systems, the authors succeed in inspiring us to think how these platforms are changing how we consume, sell, and think about and care for the world. It offers fresh insights that I expect to influence my research and teaching in important ways for a long time.' --Christine Moorman, Duke University, US and Editor in Chief, Journal of Marketing'The sharing economy is fundamentally altering firms and markets, yet key questions about the future of the economy and society remain unanswered. Belk, Eckhardt and Bardhi provide a sweeping view of emerging thinking, spanning topics from blockchain and big data to rhetoric and risk. A must-read for any serious scholar.' --Arun Sundararajan, New York University, US and author of The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism'This is a must-read collection for anyone seeking a deeper appreciation of the sharing economy and why and how it works. Twenty-eight chapters explore the paradoxes between the moral economy of ''sharing'' the market economy of ''commerce,'' and the reputation economy on which everything is based. If you want a greater sense of the benefits and dilemmas of the sharing economy read this book.' --Susan Fournier, Boston University, USTable of ContentsContents: The paradox of the sharing economy, Introductory chapter Russell Belk, Giana Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi The Nature of Sharing and the Sharing Economy 1. Situating the Sharing Economy: Between Markets, Commons and Capital Adam Arvidsson 2. Sharing as an Alternative Economy Activity Thomas Widlok 3. The who and what of sharing: A phenomenological view Wolfgang Suetzl 4. The Sharing Economy and Lifestyle Movements Mikko Laamanen and Stefan Wahlen Ownership, Access, and Collaborative Modalities 5. To Own or to Access: An Exploration of Sharing and Access Practices by Arab Millennials Maha Baz Radwan, Georgios Patsiaouras and Michael Saren 6 Object History Value in the Sharing Economy Claris X. Li and Richard J. Lutz 7. Guest, friend or colleague? Unpacking relationship norms in collaborative workplaces Adèle Gruen and Laetitia Mimoun 8. Designing the Economics of the Sharing Economy: Towards Sustainable Management Ann Light Exchange Practices in the Sharing Economy 9. The New Face of Bartering in Collaborative Networks: The Case of Italy’s Most Popular Bartering Website Daniele Dalli and Fulvio Fortezza 10. Sharing Economy to the Rescue? The Case of Timebanking Carmen Valor and Elani Papaoikonomou 11. Crowdfunding: Sharing the Entrepreneurial Journey Anirban Mukherjee, Hannah H. Chang, and Amitava Chattopadhyay 12. Crowdfunding the development of new products and services Natalia Drozdova, Seidali Kurtmollaiev and Ingeborg Kleppe Hybridity, Institutional Logics and Institutional Theory 13. Tracking the institutional logics of the sharing economy Andrea Gessinger, Christopher Laurell, Christina Oberg and Christian Sandstrom 14. Airbnb and Hybridized Logics of Commerce and Hospitality Georg von Richthofen and Eileen Fischer 15. The Hybrid Nature on Online Facilitated Offline Sharing Konstanty Strzyczkowski 16. Decentralization as a new framework for the sharing economy Marc Rocas-Royo Legal, Regulatory, and Public Policy Considerations 17. Urban Mobilities and Local Regulation: Transportation Challenges and Promise of the Sharing Economy Hugh Bartling 18. Should Europe Regulate Labour Platforms in the Sharing Economy? Adrian J. Hawley 19. Creating value to mitigate disaster harm: How the sharing economy can support consumers and policy makers Lucie K. Ozanne 20. How Sharing Economy Organizations and City Governments Engage in Institutional Work and How This Shapes Sustainability Oksana Mont, Yulia Voytenko Palgen, and Lucie Zvolska Trust, Satisfaction, and Reputation in the sharing economy 21. Social Dilemmas in the Sharing Economy Rense Corten 22. Leveraging trust on sharing economy platforms: Reputation systems, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies Mareike Möhlmann, Timm Teubner, and Antje Graul 23. Revisiting Satisfaction with Collaborative Exchanges in the Sharing Economy Jérôme Mallargé, Alain DeCrop, and Pietro, Zidda 24. Customer goodwill: How perceived competence and rapport influence eWOM’s diagnosticity of Peer-to-Peer and Professional Access-Based Services Christine Pitt, Theresa Eriksson, and Kirk Plangger Critical Perspectives on the Sharing Economy 25. Constructing the Collaborative Consumer: The Role of Digital Platforms Annmarie Ryan and Gabriela Avram 26. Performing (in) the community: Accounting, biopower and the sharing economy Penelope van den Bussche and Jeremy Morales 27. The Rhetoric of Sharing: Managerial Literature on the Sharing Economy Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając 28. Reputation: the ‘fictitious commodity’ of the sharing economy? Alessandro Gandini Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Sustainable Innovation maps the multiple lineages of research and understanding that constitute academic work on how technological change relates to sustainable practices of production and consumption. Leading academics contribute by mapping the general evolution of this academic field, our understanding of sustainable innovation at the firm, user, and systems level, the governance of sustainable innovation, and the methodological approaches used. The Handbook explores the distinctiveness of sustainable innovation and concludes with suggestions for generating future research avenues that exploit the current diversity of work while seeking increased systemic insight. This unique and original book will have a broad appeal among scholars, researchers and advanced students interested in innovation, environmental studies and technological transitions.Trade Review'What is sustainable innovation? This comprehensive Handbook answers this question by outlining and organizing the scope and breadth of this academic field. It is an invaluable resource for both new scholars finding their way into the field and seasoned scholars taking stock of its work and contributions. And for society, the output of this research work will illuminate the critical role that technology development plays in our sustainability solutions.' --Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. An introduction: mapping the field(s) of sustainable innovation Frank Boons and Andrew McMeekin PART I VISIONS OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 2. How does innovation sustain ‘sustainable innovation’? Benoît Godin and Gérald Gaglio 3. Innovation in the circular and the performance economy Walter R. Stahel PART II SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AT THE FIRM LEVEL 4. Determinants of eco-innovation at the firm level Jens Horbach 5. Taxonomy and dimensions of eco-innovation from a resource-based perspective Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla, Christoph P. Kiefer and Pablo del Río 6. Strategies and drivers of sustainable business model innovation Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Stefan Schaltegger and Krzysztof Dembek 7. Sustainable innovation in business models: celebrated but not interrogated Oksana Mont, Katherine Whalen and Julia Nussholz PART III GOVERNANCE AND POLICY OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 8. Reviewing responsible research and innovation: lessons for a sustainable innovation research agenda? Eefje Cuppen, Elisabeth van de Grift and Udo Pesch 9. Policy mixes for sustainable innovation: conceptual considerations and empirical insights Karoline S. Rogge 10. Firms, institutions and politics: the role of corporate political activity in sustainable innovation Jonatan Pinkse PART IV SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AS SYSTEMS CHANGE 11. Technological innovation systems: a review of recent findings and suggestions for future research Anna Bergek 12. An institutional perspective on sustainability transitions Lea Fuenfschilling PART V USERS AND PRACTICES OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 13. The role of users in sustainable innovation Geert Verbong, Bram Verhees and Anna Wieczorek 14. Sustainable innovation, consumption and everyday life Jo Mylan PART VI SITES AND DOMAINS OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 15. Sustainable innovation as a challenge for urban governance Harald Rohracher and Michael Ornetzeder 16. Innovation and ecological impact: the case of automobility Peter Wells PART VII RESEARCH METHODS FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 17. Sustainable innovation research methods Floortje Alkemade 18. Advances in modelling sustainable innovation: from technology bias to system theories and behavioural dynamics Jonathan Köhler 19 The impact of circular economy Dionne Ewen, Karen Maas and Helen Toxopeus 20. Conclusion Frank Boons and Andrew McMeekin Index

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Book SynopsisArtificial Intelligence (AI) is being rapidly introduced into the workplace, creating debate around what AI means for our work and organizations. This book gives grounded counterweight to provocative newspaper headlines by using in-depth case studies of eight organizations’ experiences of implementing and using AI, providing readers with a solid understanding of what is actually happening in practice.Critical yet constructive, the authors address the challenges of implementing AI: organizing for data, testing and validating, algorithmic brokering, and changing work. Using a combination of existing literature and thorough practical examples, they provide answers to questions such as: What data do I need? When is a system good enough to actually take over tasks? And how can my employees be prepared for working with AI? The book presents four recommendations for WISE management of AI, requiring work-related insights, interdisciplinary knowledge, sociotechnical change processes, and ethical awareness.Offering insight into the unique characteristics of AI in organizations, this book will be essential reading for scholars of business and management, data analytics and information systems, technology and innovation, and computer science. With practical recommendations for managing the challenges of AI, it will also provide business managers with reflections to improve their own AI development and implementation processes.Trade Review‘Wonderfully written, this book will resonate with every manager who is currently grappling with implementing AI in their organization. By analyzing real-life case studies, the authors go way beyond the AI hype and dive into the intricate organizational and work challenges that arise with the introduction of AI in the workplace, providing actionable insights. A must read for all decision makers, developers and technology brokers at incumbent organizations!’ -- Stella Pachidi, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to managing AI wisely 2. What is AI? 3. Perspectives on AI and work 4. Methods and introduction to cases 5. Organizing for data 6. Testing and validating 7. Algorithmic brokers 8. Changing work 9. How can AI systems be managed wisely? Index

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Book SynopsisAddressing the key research question of how organizations transform to generate new forms of public and shareholder value by leveraging digital technology, expert contributors provide a deep dive into a diverse variety of business models from around the globe. The book also provides a timely focus on multisector ecosystems where organizations have limited, if any, ability to operate using monopolistic and/or command-and-control mechanisms.Digitalization and Sustainability examines how high-tech and information-intensive industries have brought to light the fundamental tenants of ‘business ecosystems’, illustrating how in other industries, the opportunities and practices for advancing performance by competing and cooperating in a network of organizations is less understood. It reviews how, in the context of technology management, digital value brings to light the reality that managers in specific organizations need to adopt a new set of cooperative and competitive practices. Chapters offer insights on ways to help these managers navigate an ecosystem to generate value for their own organization while enabling the larger system to evolve and improve.This book will be a valuable resource for students and faculty in the fields of information systems, public management, public policy and technology management. Researchers investigating digital transformation efforts using multiple theoretical lenses and looking for a wide range of research methodologies will find this book informative and instructive.Trade Review‘Digitalization and Sustainability: Advancing Digital Value edited by M. Kathryn Brohman,Gregory S. Dawson and Kevin C. Desouza, is an essential addition to the literature on digital value. This book provides a balanced and reflective approach, bringing together contributions from a wide variety of sources to explore the complex interplay of opposing forces at play in the adoption and utilization of digital technologies. I highly recommend this book to students, academics, and practitioners seeking to better understand the complexities of our digital world.’ -- Maria Cucciniello, Bocconi University, Italy’Digitalization and Sustainability: Advancing Digital Value has the merit of bringing together two intersecting issues. Both digitalization and sustainability have received a great deal of attention, but this is one of the first books I have seen that gives adequate attention to their complementarity. The chapters in this book are innovative and represent a great deal of wisdom while, at the same time, reflecting diverse perspectives. This book will prove useful for a broad set of readers, including professional researchers, business leaders and students.’> -- Barry Bozeman, Arizona State University, US‘The book is timely and provides a much-needed perspective on digital transformation and value generation. It not only covers the traditional focus on business value and individual gains, but also examines systematically, with international examples, how digital technologies bring societal value, enhance ESG performance, and transform public service and institutions.’ -- Alfred Ho, City University of Hong Kong, Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xviii Robert D. Galliers 1 Digital value systems and sustainability 1 M. Kathryn Brohman, Gregory S. Dawson and Kevin C. Desouza 2 Value Co-creation for Smart Villages: The Institutionalization of Regional Service Ecosystems 18 Juuli Lumivalo, Tero Päivärinta and Tuure Tuunanen 3 Co-Creation and Co-Destruction Paradoxes for Social Enterprises 42 Reihaneh Bidar and Behnam Abedin Practice 1. Paradoxes and Progress – Perspectives on Collaboration for Digital Value 72 Dan Chenok 4 Unlocking Digital Value at the Intersection of Organizational Digital Transformation and Digital Business Ecosystems 77 Philip Karnebogen, Anna Maria Oberländer and Patrick Rövekamp 5 Frugal Digital Innovation: Delivering Healthcare Services in Rural India 105 Suchit Ahuja and Arman Sadreddin 6 Analyzing Social Interactions and Conflicting Goals: Australian Government Ecosystem Context 127 Asif Qumer Gill and Sultana Lubna Alam Practice 2 . Practitioners Viewpoint and Reactions to ‘Unlocking Digital Value at the Intersection of Organizational Digital Transformation and Digital Business Ecosystems’ 145 Clay Pearson 7 The New in the Old: Managing Inertia and Resulting Tensions in Digital Value Creation 149 Thomas Haskamp, Christian Dremel, Carolin Marx, Ulla Rinkes and Falk Uebernickel 8 Digital Value and Organizational Change: It’s Time to Rethink Organization for Value-In-Configuration 174 Gongtai Wang 9 Digital Maturity Models 192 Christina Wagner, Verena Kessler Verzar, Rainer Bernnat and Daniel J. Veit Practice 3 . A Practitioner’s View on the Organizational Perspective 215 Dorine Andrews 10 Achieving Structural Ambidexterity through Bimodal IT – A Conceptual Model and Research Agenda 220 Kristina Kusanke 11 Building Digital Platform Leadership through Affordances and Generativity 239 Andreas Hein, David Soto Setzke, Sebastian Hermes, Jörg Weking, Philipp Kernstock, and Helmut Krcmar 12 The Evolution of IT Leadership 256 Thomas Hess and Christian Sciuk Practice 4 . CIO Perspective 276 Jagdish Dalal Index

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