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Book SynopsisThis pioneering Handbook details the origins of the concept of frugal innovation, its emergence as an academic field of interest, and the driving forces behind it. It presents new empirical evidence and critical perspectives on what frugal innovation entails, from a range of disciplines including science and engineering, humanities, and the social sciences.Analysing case studies on frugal innovation from across the globe, this Handbook assesses the role of innovation in addressing societal challenges such as poverty, inequality, and climate change. Chapters examine key topics in the field, covering gender as a lens for frugal innovation, managing frugal innovation for sustainable development, design and engineering in frugal product formation, and the global markets for frugal innovation policies. Contributors pay specific attention to the role of technology as an enabler for frugal innovation, and the institutional and social contexts in which it takes place.Providing a comprehensive overview of frugal innovation, this Handbook will be essential reading for academics and students in the fields of development economics, business and management studies and organisational innovation. It will also be beneficial for policymakers and government officials interested in perspectives on innovation that could be instrumental in the formation and implementation of innovation policies.Trade Review‘With an impressive line-up of diverse contributors from Latin America to Asia, from post-docs to senior academics, from engineers to social scientists, and from practitioners to public policy shapers, this Handbook impressively covers a wide range of historical and modern perspectives on frugal innovation. For anyone looking to advance their own research into this topic, this Handbook would be an excellent starting point. I have already highly recommended it to my PhD students.’ -- Yasser Bhatti, Oxford University, UK‘As we confront the growing pressures of resource scarcity and sustainability challenges across the globe, frugal innovation becomes a valuable lens to explore the types of solutions that are needed. This book captures the complexities of frugal innovation and highlights the value of innovations that emerge from constrained environments, mainly in the Global South. A must-read.’ -- Erika Kraemer-Mbula, University of Johannesburg, South Africa‘The Handbook on Frugal Innovation is a truly remarkable achievement. Expertly edited by André Leliveld, Saradindu Bhaduri, Peter Knorringa, and Cees van Beers, it is breath-taking in conception and execution. The range of topics covered, the list of contributors, and the quality of research writing that underlies everything is peerless. It is a must read for students and practitioners of business more broadly and innovation in particular.’ -- Jaideep Prabhu, Cambridge Judge Business School, UK‘The Handbook on Frugal Innovation is a must read for all of those concerned with the trajectory of innovation. It provides a valuable and wide-ranging mix of contributions focusing on the history of ideas, the relevance of frugal innovations to innovation theory and development policy, and the implications for the management of innovation. It is truly collaborative and impressive book.’ -- Raphael Kaplinsky, University of Sussex, and Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii André Leliveld, Saradindu Bhaduri, Peter Knorringa and Cees van Beers 1 Capturing frugal innovation: introduction to the Handbook on Frugal Innovation 1 André Leliveld, Saradindu Bhaduri, Peter Knorringa and Cees van Beers PART I INCLUDING FRUGAL INNOVATION THINKING IN DISCIPLINARY DEBATES 2 Anchoring: a historical perspective on frugal innovation 28 Miguel John Versluys and Ineke Sluiter 3 Frugal innovation: some theoretical observations from innovation-economic and social-entrepreneurial perspectives 43 Cees van Beers and André Leliveld 4 The apolitical framing of frugal innovation in the global south: beyond the tales of scarcity, heroic inventors and techno-fixes 54 Mario Pansera 5 Frugality in innovation processes: a heuristics-based perspective from the ‘informal economy’ 69 Saradindu Bhaduri, Ariane Agnes Corradi, Hemant Kumar and Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh PART II EMBEDDING FRUGAL INNOVATION IN TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEMATIC DEBATES 6 Frugal innovation and sustainability: bringing together polarized views from the state of the art 84 Stephanie Knizkov and Julia Arlinghaus 7 Frugal innovators as change agents in circular economy transitions 102 Jarkko Levänen, Eugenia Rosca and Sukyung Park 8 A gender lens for frugal innovation 114 Saskia Vossenberg and Solange Hai 9 Governing frugal innovation for sustainable development: the hybrid domain 126 Balaji Parthasarathy and Yuko Aoyama 10 Frugal innovation and legitimacy 142 Greetje Schouten and Peter Knorringa 11 Fairness institutions for frugal innovation 154 Haye Hazenberg and Saradindu Bhaduri PART III TECHNOLOGY AS AN ENABLER 12 Value-sensitive design practices for frugal innovations 164 Neelke Doorn 13 The frugal design of a medical centrifuge: distributed production as a frugal technology to increase access to medical devices in low- and middle-income countries 176 Jan Carel Diehl, Temitope Agbana, G-Young Van, Ludo Hille Ris Lambers and Samenjo Karl Heinz Tondo 14 Frugal engineering solutions for recovery of resources from wastewater 197 Pamela Ceron-Chafla and Ralph E.F. Lindeboom 15 Engineering capabilities for frugal innovations: the case of a radiation-free cancer detection device 220 Christine Wimschneider and Nivedita Agarwal 16 Design and engineering for frugal product development 239 Balkrishna C. Rao 17 Frugality and jugaad in science: evidence from a research laboratory 249 Pankaj Sekhsaria 18 ICTs as frugal innovations: enabling new pathways towards refugee self-reliance and resilience in fragile contexts? 262 Holly A. Ritchie 19 Frugal innovation and digital platforms 278 Erwin van Tuijl and Peter Knorringa PART IV ACTORS, BUSINESS MODELS AND BLURRING BOUNDARIES 20 Lead markets, international business and frugal innovation 296 Rajnish Tiwari and Cornelius Herstatt 21 Frugal energy and the global markets of pico solar systems 313 Pascale Trompette and Céline Cholez 22 Frugal process innovation and local innovation systems – the case of a small producers’ cluster in northern Vietnam 330 Jaap Voeten 23 Frugal innovation: balancing between value capture and value creation 346 Rachel Howell 24 Frugal innovation in public service delivery: reflections from case studies in Kenya 364 Elsie Onsongo 25 University–business cooperation for frugal innovation: a case study of the University of Campinas 379 Bruno Brandão Fischer, José Guimón and Paola Rücker Schaeffer 26 University-driven frugal innovations 393 Marjolijn Dijksterhuis, Sara Grobbelaar and Robert Tijssen Index

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Book SynopsisDigital innovations influence every aspect of our lives in this increasingly technological world. Firms that pursue digital innovations must think carefully about how digital technologies shape the nature, process and outcomes of innovation as well as the long- and short-term social, economic and cultural consequences of their offerings. The Handbook contributes to building a transdisciplinary understanding of digital innovation by bringing together a diverse set of leading scholars from business, engineering, economics, science and public policy. Their distinct perspectives advance ideas and principles intended to set the agenda for future research on digital innovation in ways that inform not only firm-level strategies and practices but policy decisions and science-focused investments as well. The first of its kind, this Handbook provides scope and depth for scholars interested in information systems and digital technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship, strategy, and digital platforms and ecosystems. In addition, it is informative and enlightening to scholars and practitioners interested in the impact of digital technologies on organizations and the broader society. Contributors include: A. Aaltonen, C. Alaimo, E. Autio, N. Berente, C. Bubel, P.N. Courant, J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, E.L. Echeverri-Carroll, A. Gawer, T.L. Griffith, V. Grover, J. Grudin, O. Henfridsson, S.L. Jarvenpaa, J. Kallinikos, M.J. Kim, J.L. King, R.J. Kulathinal, S. Kumar, K.A. Loparo, K. Lyytinen, A. Majchrzak, A. Malhotra, M.L. Markus, S. Nambisan, W. Nan, J.V. Nickerson, A. Pedraza-Avella, L.W. Rogowski, S. Seidel, L.D.W. Thomas, C. Velu, Y. Yoo, X. ZhangTrade Review'The revolution in digital technologies has fueled unprecedented levels and forms of innovation spanning individuals, firms, industries, and disciplines. Satish Nambisan, Kalle Lyytinen and Youngjin Yoo call for the first transdisciplinary approach to understanding this phenomenon. This collection of cumulative knowledge and the rare opportunity for novel connections stemming from this are vitally important in order to move forward scholarly and practitioner perspectives on digital innovation.' --Mike Fisher, Chief Technology Officer at Etsy, USTable of ContentsContents: Section 1: Introduction Chapter 1: Digital Innovation: Towards a Transdisciplinary Perspective (Nambisan, Lyytinen, Yoo) Section 2: Foundations of Digital Innovation Introduction to Section 2 (Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) Chapter 2: The New Wave of Digital Innovation: The Need for a Theory of Sociotechnical Self-Orchestration (Majchrzak & Griffith) Chapter 3: Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship in and around Institutional Voids: The Case of Fundación Cardiovascular (FCV) in Colombia (Jarvenpaa, Echeverri-Carroll, Pedraza) Chapter 4: Theorizing the Connections between Digital Innovations and Societal Transformation: Learning from the Case of M-Pesa in Kenya (Markus & Nan) Chapter 5: Agile Development as the Root Metaphor for Strategy in Digital Innovation (Berente) Section 3: Digital Platforms, Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship Introduction to Section 3 (Annabelle Gawer) Chapter 6: Value co-creation in ecosystems: Insights and research promise from three disciplinary perspectives (Autio & Thomas) Chapter 7: Remixing Systems: Collective design through modification (Nickerson) Chapter 8: Scaling Digital Enterprises (Henfridsson) Section 4: Digital Innovation, Business Models and Value Creation Introduction to Section 4 (Varun Grover) Chapter 9: Data and Value (Alaimo, Kallinikos, Aaltonen) Chapter 10: Business Model Cohesiveness Scorecard: Implications of Digitization for Business Model Innovation (Velu) Chapter 11: Automate, Informate, and Generate: Affordance Primitives of Smart Devices and the Internet of Things (Seidel & Berente) Section 5: Digital Innovation and Future of Work Introduction to Section 5 (Paul Courant) Chapter 12: Prolegomena on Digital Innovation and Jobs (King & Grudin) Chapter 13: Making the One-Sided Gig Economy Really Two-Sided: Implications for Future of Work (Malhotra) Section 6: Digital Innovation and Application Domains Introduction to Section 6 (Ken Loparo) Chapter 14: The bits and bytes of biology: Digitalization fuels an emerging generative platform for biological innovation (Kulathinal, Yoo, Kumar) Chapter 15: Innovations in Micro-robotics and their Implications in a Digital World (Rogowski, Bubel, Zhang, Kim) Section 7: Conclusion Chapter 16: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Digital Innovation: Key Themes and Directions for Future Research (Lyytinen, Nambisan, Yoo) Index

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Book SynopsisIn the coming decades robots and artificial intelligence will fundamentally change our world. In doing so they offer the hope of a golden future, one where the elderly are looked after by companion robots, where the disabled can walk, robot security protects us all, remote rural areas have access to the best urban facilities and there is almost limitless prosperity. But there are dangers. There are fears in the labour market that robots will replace jobs, leaving many unemployed, and increase inequality. In relying too much on robots, people may reduce their human contact and see their cognitive abilities decline. There are even concerns, reflected in many science fiction films, that robots may eventually become competitors with humans for survival. This book looks at both the history of robots, in science and in fiction, as well as the science behind robots. Specific chapters analyse the impact of robots on the labour market, people's attitudes to robots, the impact of robots on society, and the appropriate policies to pursue to prepare our world for the robot revolution. Overall the book strikes a cautionary tone. Robots will change our world dramatically and they will also change human beings. These important issues are examined from the perspective of an economist, but the book is intended to appeal to a wider audience in the social sciences and beyond.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Innovation 2. The History and Development of Robots 3. Robots now and in the Future 4. The Science of Robots 5. The impact on employment, unemployment and wages 6. The Economic, Social and Political Impact 7. People’s Hopes and Fears 8. Policies to deal with potential problems and to realise the promise 9. A Changing World of Innovation References Index

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Book SynopsisOffering the first scholarly analysis of the economic nature of blockchains and the formation of the blockchain economy, this timely book explores the future of global capitalism. Applying the institutional economics of Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson, the authors highlight how blockchains are poised to reshape the nature of firms, governments, markets and civil society. Chapters apply basic economic principles to explore blockchains and distributed ledger technologies through the framework of institutional economics. The book suggests ways in which cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin may develop further in the future, bringing us back to a barter economy which removes the need for a third person in economic transactions. Outlining a ledger-centric view of the economy, the authors explore how blockchains and dehierarchalisation will reduce the demand for government regulation. Institutional economists and scholars will greatly appreciate the thorough analysis of the development of institutional cryptoeconomics and insight into the future of blockchains that this book offers. Computer and technology scientists will also find this book to be a valuable read, as well as those working specifically in the blockchain industry. Table of ContentsContents 1. Introduction 2. The institutional economics of blockchain 3. The Universal Turing Institution 4. The microfoundations of ledgers 5. Money, dequity, and the barter economy of the future 6. Supply chains and identity 7. The V-form organisation and the future of the firm 8. Public policy in a blockchain era 9. Capitalism after Satoshi 10. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisApproach the future as a conversation, not a declaration. How can you be prepared for what's next when emerging trends constantly threaten to turn your strategic plan on its head? The world of business is experiencing a state of hyperchange influenced by global movements, disruptive technologies, political uprisings and new consumer expectations. If your world is turned upside down, will you know how to pivot and thrive, or will you be roadkill in the 'adapt or die' business race? Futuring is the art of anticipating and testing the trade-offs of different futures by making sense of key trends, signals and emerging patterns. How to Future is the only book that will teach you how to become a strategy wayfinder, allowing you to evaluate, plan and prepare for better futures for you and your business. How to Future is a guidebook to futuring and arms you with tools, strategies and practices that illuminate new strategic pathways. Renowned futurists Scott Smith and Madeline Ashby teach you how to manage the daily flood of information and signals, and discern emergent patterns that have a direct impact on the direction of your business. How to Future isn't about the "one future" you expect. Instead, this book equips you with valuable tools and concepts, builds a future-focused mindset and enables you to envision, stress-test and prototype adaptable, informed and agile strategic visioning. These tools will empower you, your team and your organization to anticipate whatever futures emerge.Trade Review"Just like great science fiction, 'futuring' isn't about trying to predict the future; it's about stimulating creative thinking about a range of possible futures. In How to Future, two of the best strategic foresight professionals in the business share all of their secrets, explaining how you can use the same tools they use to help their clients systematically think about and prepare for what's coming next--whatever it might be. It's a toolbox for taking control of your own future." * Kevin Bankston, AI Policy Director at Facebook and Fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination *"The Future is no longer uncertain once you have read How to Future. The book does a brilliant job of providing the reader with the confidence and know-how to embrace uncertainty and work purposefully towards the future with ease. Using models of possibility and clear framework tools, anyone can learn to understand, predict, and shape the future, which is particularly refreshing considering the fact that futuring can often feel like an intimidating task." * Julie Doleman, Managing Director, Global Expansion at Experian Consumer Services *"The future is rarely singular, and even more rarely stable. And there are few voices I would rather have in my head, to keep me company into all those futures than Scott Smith and Madeline Ashby. Drawing on more than two decades of expertise and experience, this book is an exemplary way-finding tool, full of helpful instructions and sign-posts that will be unfailing useful no matter where you find yourself. And the book is also an incantation: summon the future, they write, but do it with intentionality, a sense of purpose, and a strong moral compass!" * Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, Director of the 3A Institute, Australian National University and Senior Fellow, Intel Corporation *"Smith and Ashby have done our increasingly uncertain world a service with How to Future by sharing the crown jewels of the futurists' trade. This book is filled with plain-spoken but extremely sophisticated guidance on how to understand-and prepare for-what's over the horizon." * August Cole, co-author of Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution and Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War *"Reading How to Future in mid-2020, reinforced in my mind how important it is to broaden the scope of who gets to 'future.' There has never been a better time to learn how to imagine new possibilities and incorporate more diversity of experiences and points of view into the process. If you want to engage communities and make new, different, and more resilient futures happen, Smith and Ashby's book provides both a manual and a call for doing so." * Matt Jones, Principal Designer, Google AI *"In a world that needs proper, grown-up futures thinking more than ever, How To Future is simply brilliant - it's the tonic (and the gin!) we've been waiting for. A true manual to futuring, it is both accessible and wise, written by two of the leading thinkers in the field with their characteristic wry pragmatism. With hope and without hype, the book shows us how to better think about, prepare for, and deal with the many strange things the future yet has to offer." * Professor Alf Rehn, Author "Innovation for the Fatigued" *"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. The old pros at Changeist have written the definitive guide to thinking around corners, out of quarantine, and through the uncertainty ahead. How to Future contains all the accrued foresight you need to begin practicing futures as a team or organization, and persuasively argues that your "return on vision" will trump straight-line projections every time." * Greg Lindsay, Director of Applied Research, NewCities Foundation *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Different futuring for different needs; Chapter - 02: Getting started – scoping; Chapter - 03: Sensing and scanning – finding signals of the future now; Chapter - 04: Sense-making and mapping – turning data and insights into patterns and themes; Chapter - 05: Scenario development – combining patterns and themes to tell strategic stories; Chapter - 06: Storytelling and prototyping – creating ways for others to engage with your future stories; Chapter - 07: Assessing effectiveness – tools for monitoring and measuring fitness of approach; Chapter - 08: What to do next? Building a futuring culture; Chapter - 09: Conclusion

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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 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 SynopsisThis Elgar Research Agenda showcases insights from leading researchers on the charged issues and questions that lie ahead in the multidisciplinary field of digital politics. Covering the political implications of the Internet, social media, datafication and computational analytics, it looks to the future of how research might address the political challenges of the digital age and maps the key emerging trends in this field. Contributors outline and engage with major questions related to the transformation of campaigns, elections and political partisanship through digital media, and identify the methodological pathways and problems that impact the field. Exploring the implications of digitisation for governance, democracy, privacy, surveillance, advocacy, activism, and political talk, this book highlights the emergent ethical issues that will shape the future of this burgeoning focus of research. Featuring crucial insights into an increasingly pertinent subject, this Research Agenda will be key reading for researchers and graduate students of Internet studies, new media studies and political science. Policy makers, political consultants and anyone with a serious interest in research into digital politics will also benefit from this book's forward-looking approach. Contributors include: N. Anstead, J.G. Blumler, A. Chadwick, S. Coleman, A. Drew, E. Dubois, W.H. Dutton, L. Fernandez, H. Ford, M.I. Franklin, P. Gerbaudo, D. Karpf, L. Lievrouw, W.-Y. Lin, F. Martin-Bariteau, D. McDowell-Naylor, G. Moss, B. O'Loughlin, P. Rossini, V. Schneider, L. Sorenson, S. Wright, X. ZhangTrade Review'This rich Research Agenda brings leading international scholars together to rethink the agenda of communication research in the digital age. These perspectives on studying democratic public spheres as they are being reshaped by digital and social media makes this book essential reading.' --W. Lance Bennett, Center for Communication & Civic Engagement, US'The aptly titled A Research Agenda for Digital Politics, edited by William Dutton, addresses the core scholarly, normative, and applied questions raised by the 21st century information environment. Organized around the interrelated themes of ''transformations and continuities'', ''campaigns and elections'', ''Institutional transformation'', ''informational, symbolic, and communicative actions'', and ''reshaping democratic processes and discourses'', the chapters in this volume, written by an interdisciplinary mix of established and emerging scholars, collectively reject simplistic notions of technological determinism, and dystopian or utopian perspectives. In their place are thoughtfully-framed questions amenable to reliable and valid empirical research. As such it is a timely and much-needed blueprint for the emerging field of digital politics.' --Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania, US'A forward-looking guide for understanding the collision between digital and political worlds and what this entanglement means for society.' --Laura DeNardis, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xii Introduction to A Research Agenda for Digital Politics xvii William H. Dutton PART I TRANSFORMATIONS AND CONTINUITIES 1 Four challenges for the future of digital politics research 2 Andrew Chadwick 2 The future of political communication research 13 Nick Anstead 3 As it was in analogue days: the relevance of legacy research 25 Jay G. Blumler PART II CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS 4 Political parties in the digital era 37 Paolo Gerbaudo 5 Researching the next wave of campaigns: empirical and methodological developments 48 Declan McDowell-Naylor 6 Digital advertising in political campaigns and elections 60 Laleah Fernandez 7 The role of digital media in China: participation in an unlikely place 72 Wan-Ying Lin and Xinzhi Zhang PART III INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS 8 The politics of digital age governance 84 Volker Schneider 9 How accountable are digital platforms? 97 Giles Moss and Heather Ford 10 Human rights futures and the digital: a radical research agenda 110 M.I. Franklin PART IV INFORMATIONAL, SYMBOLIC AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTIONS 11 After clicktivism 123 Dave Karpf 12 Symbolic politics meets digital media: research on political meaning-making 133 Lone Sorensen 13 Sending a message: the primacy of action as communication in cyber-security 146 Ben O’Loughlin and Alexi Drew PART V RESHAPING DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AND DISCOURSE 14 Beyond toxicity in the online public sphere: understanding incivility in online political talk 160 Patrícia Rossini 15 Facebook as a third space? The challenge of building global community 171 Scott Wright 16 Citizenship and the data subject 186 Leah A. Lievrouw 17 Citizens and their political institutions in a digital context 202 Elizabeth Dubois and Florian Martin-Bariteau 18 Re-imagining the democratic public 213 Stephen Coleman Index 223

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and innovative Research Handbook tackles the pressing issues confronting us at the dawn of the global network society, including freedom of speech, government transparency and the digital divide. Representing a milestone in information policy research, this new volume edited by Alistair Duff brings together leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines to discuss important topics such as genetic information, news and privacy, and provides case studies on cyber harms, freedom of information and national digitization policy. Engaging with controversial problems of public policy including freedom of expression, copyright and information inequality, the Research Handbook on Information Policy offers a well-rounded exploration of the history and future of this vital field. Systematically addressing both general theory and specific issues, as well as providing international perspectives, this Research Handbook will be of particular interest to academics and students in the disciplines of information science, journalism and media studies, politics, sociology, philosophy and law.Trade Review‘This useful collection of twenty-eight chapters presents an insightful view of the history of the information policy concept, and theory and developments in the field. The authors are drawn from a variety of disciplines, from philosophy to journalism, via communication studies and information science. They also represent a wider range of countries than is typical of this kind of compilation, coming from Spain, Canada, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Israel, although the majority are from the United Kingdom and the USA. Consequently, the range of cultural, political, scientific, and economic factors that provide the context for policy are more diverse than one would find in a text devoted to any single country. The editor has done an excellent job in pulling these authors together and producing a text that will benefit researchers and students of information policy. . . I reiterate that the text is an excellent compilation of contributions to the field and will no doubt become a standard reference on the subject.’ -- Professor Tom Wilson, Information Research‘In 1976, I wrote a doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, The Information Economy. In 1980, I hosted a documentary called The Information Society. It was an introduction to a general TV audience of what I felt were—and would be—the key issues facing an information-based society.Alistair Duff’s compendium of thought leaders underscores the fact that each era brings with it the rich opportunities of positive evolution, and the pressures and problems of a society and economy undergoing extremely rapid change. As with the industrial revolution, technology, social values, markets, laws and equity are out of sync. Some coherent guidance will emerge from competitive market dynamics and governance. Some will fall through the cracks and remain a challenge. This book is a worthy effort to bring all that together.’ -- Marc Uri Porat, Tech Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, US'This collection makes a huge contribution to our understanding of why information society and information policy research are crucial - retrospectively and prospectively. Theorised from multiple standpoints, this collection of leading scholars tells us how power is articulated through information, enabling surveillance, perpetuating inequalities, and creating conditions for either sustaining or curtailing freedom of expression, privacy and access to information. Required reading for everyone interested in the potentials of democratic discourse.' -- Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xv Youichi Ito 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Information Policy 1 Alistair S. Duff PART I GENERAL THEORY THE NATURE OF INFORMATION POLICY 2 Intervention and aesthetics: the nature of information policy 25 Ian Cornelius 3 Ecstasy and entropy: information policy in a punctuated case 40 Sandra Braman 4 Prophetic v. priestly: alternative modes of information policy 56 Steve Fuller THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION POLICY 5 Information policy before information policies? Conceptual and historical considerations 69 László Z. Karvalics 6 Aspects of the history of state information policies in Britain before the digital age 80 Alistair Black 7 International information policy: UNESCO in historical perspective 96 Julia Pohle THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION POLICY 8 The future of information policy: preparing for transformational change 114 Richard D. Taylor 9 The ecology of games reshaping information policy: internet access in Belarus to cyber harms in the United Kingdom 130 William H. Dutton and Aljona Zorina 10 The intertwined futures of information policy and information literacy 146 Paul T. Jaeger and Natalie Greene Taylor PART II SPECIFIC ISSUES PRIVACY 11 Fifty-plus years of information privacy policy-making: the more things change, the more they remain the same 159 Priscilla M. Regan 12 An equity view of public reason: privacy and surveillance policy as social justice 174 Michael A. Katell 13 Privacy’s progress: privacy as a progressive ideal for information policy 189 Alistair S. Duff FREEDOM OF INFORMATION 14 Freedom of information: a constitutive public good in democratic societies 205 Ivan Szekely 15 Freedom of information: a state of the art 220 Ben Worthy 16 Public or private? Freedom of information and the Scottish struggle for scrutiny of public bodies 237 Ben McConville FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 17 Freedom of expression in a datafied world 250 Arne Hintz 18 Agility in an age of information ubiquity: freedom of expression and information policy 263 Emily J.M. Knox 19 Gatecrashers? Freedom of expression in an age-gated internet 276 Victoria Nash INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 20 Rights and wrongs: old and new perspectives on copyright 291 John Feather 21 Intellectual property and the reliability of content: the case for moral rights 306 Margaret Ann Wilkinson 22 The ratcheting racket: the global political economy of copyright policy-making 323 Blayne Haggart INFORMATION INEQUALITY 23 Information inequality: realization of capabilities as an information policy goal 341 Amit M. Schejter 24 Planning and evaluating policy to address information inequalities: an Information Worlds Matrix approach 357 Kim M. Thompson 25 How (not) to deepen information inequality via information policy: a contribution of the contextual approach 368 Petr Lupač PART III SPECIAL INFORMATION 26 Genetic information: fundamental issues 385 Ruth Chadwick 27 Ethical challenges for the production and dissemination of official statistics in the big data environment 398 Catherine Heeney 28 Informing the public sphere: Walter Lippmann on democracy and news, with a coda on Jurgen Habermas 413 Sue Curry Jansen 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 the first scholarly analysis of the economic nature of blockchains and the formation of the blockchain economy, this timely book explores the future of global capitalism. Applying the institutional economics of Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson, the authors highlight how blockchains are poised to reshape the nature of firms, governments, markets and civil society. Chapters apply basic economic principles to explore blockchains and distributed ledger technologies through the framework of institutional economics. The book suggests ways in which cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin may develop further in the future, bringing us back to a barter economy which removes the need for a third person in economic transactions. Outlining a ledger-centric view of the economy, the authors explore how blockchains and dehierarchalisation will reduce the demand for government regulation. Institutional economists and scholars will greatly appreciate the thorough analysis of the development of institutional cryptoeconomics and insight into the future of blockchains that this book offers. Computer and technology scientists will also find this book to be a valuable read, as well as those working specifically in the blockchain industry. Table of ContentsContents 1. Introduction 2. The institutional economics of blockchain 3. The Universal Turing Institution 4. The microfoundations of ledgers 5. Money, dequity, and the barter economy of the future 6. Supply chains and identity 7. The V-form organisation and the future of the firm 8. Public policy in a blockchain era 9. Capitalism after Satoshi 10. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised second edition Handbook examines the latest knowledge and perspectives on digital politics. Through new content on digital populism, filter bubbles, algorithmic power, AI, non-Western digital politics, election communication regulation and right-wing alternative news media, contributors challenge the binary of cyber-optimism and cyber-pessimism and argue for a more nuanced understanding of political change.Arranged around key themes, this Handbook investigates the meaning of digital politics and analyses the impact of new technologies and platforms on politics. Chapters consider the digital reconfiguration of civic practices, political institutions and journalism. Leading scholars provide original, incisive and provocative insights into cutting-edge issues, exploring how the expansion of digital technologies, channels and styles shapes political dynamics.Providing a broad and in-depth overview of digital politics, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for researchers, educators and students of politics, media and communication studies, journalism, technology and governance. It will also be essential reading for political practitioners, policy-makers and strategists seeking to better understand the digital world.Trade Review‘Political processes and digital communication continue to collide and intersect in new and unforeseen ways, and rarely fail to generate crises and controversies, but also hopes and opportunities, as they do so. This magnificent collection takes a timely and sober look at current developments, and offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research in the field.’ -- Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, Australia‘Coleman and Sorensen bring us a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of the role of digital media in politics—broadly understood—from top scholars. This book is essential reading for anyone who seeks enlightenment about the uses, meanings, and effects of the Internet and social media on political life.’ -- Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Digital Politics (Second Edition) xi Stephen Coleman and Lone Sorensen PART I WAYS OF SEEING, LISTENING TO AND WRITING ABOUT DIGITAL POLITICS 1 A rhetoric of digital politics 2 Stephen Coleman and Lone Sorensen 2 De-Westernizing digital politics: a Global South viewpoint 15 Bruce Mutsvairo, Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos and Tenford Chitanana 3 Visual digital politics: imag(in)ing political activities and identities online 29 Katy Parry 4 Revolution vs reaction: the role of social media in authoritarian regimes 43 Anna Litvinenko 5 Transnational and global flows of political discussion online 56 Yuan Zeng PART II CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICAL TALK 6 The Internet as a civic space 73 Peter Dahlgren 7 Political filter bubbles and fragmented publics 88 Cristian Vaccari and Augusto Valeriani 8 Computational approaches to online political expression: a framework for research 106 Mengyu Li, Luhang Sun, Yiming Wang, Yibing Sun, Hyerin Kwon, Jiyoun Suk, JungHwan Yang and Dhavan V. Shah 9 Creating spaces for online deliberation 132 Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman 10 New frontiers in two-screen politics 150 Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin 11 Gen Z’s civic engagement: news use, politics, and cultural engagement 163 Ava Francesca Battocchio, Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode 12 Gen Z’s civic engagement: civic skills, political expression, and identity 175 Ava Francesca Battocchio, Leticia Bode, Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson and Stephanie Edgerly PART III TECHNOLOGY AND PLATFORMS 13 Becoming eventful through data: the mediated construction of historic events in the age of data 189 Heather Ford 14 Algorithms, power and digital politics 202 Ulrike Klinger 15 Social media digital architectures: a platform-first approach to political communication and participation 219 Michael Bossetta 16 Artificial intelligence in politics 235 Leah Henrickson 17 Online content moderation during conflict 252 Giovanni De Gregorio and Nicole Stremlau PART IV CONTENTIOUS POLITICS, CIVIL AND NETWORKED SOCIETY 18 The Fifth Estate: a new source of democratic accountability 265 William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois 19 The logic of connective action: digital media and the personalization of contentious politics 280 W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg 20 Media ecologies, social movements and activism 306 Emiliano Treré 21 E-petitioning and changing state–citizen engagement 320 Scott Wright and Ariadne Vromen 22 From Valencia filters to #BlackOutTuesday: collective action on Instagram 331 Elena Sotelo-Prol 23 Post-Soviet digital democratization experiments: the promise and reality 346 Yuri Misnikov PART V POLITICAL PARTIES, LEADERS AND GOVERNANCE 24 The digital performance of populism 362 Thomas Wellings and Lone Sorensen 25 Political communication about data 380 Brendan Lawson 26 Regulation of election communication 393 Damian Tambini PART VI JOURNALISM, APPARENT JOURNALISM AND MEDIA INSTITUTIONS 27 Social media as resources for journalistic struggle in politically restrictive settings 410 Banafsheh Ranji 28 Fake news and digital politics 424 Bente Kalsnes 29 Right-wing alternative news media and digital politics 436 Kristoffer Holt 30 Research on the political implications of political entertainment 449 Michael A. 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Book SynopsisWritten in an accessible style with comprehensive coverage, the Handbook of Gender and Technology provides an excellent foundation examining gender equity in technology fields. Covering the state of the art, chapters consider three key influences – environmental, identity and individual – to highlight interventions to address the gender gap in technology. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, the expert contributors seek to understand the subjective reality of those experiencing gender barriers and to provide the reader with both theory and research results into gender diversity in technology. This Handbook provides a comprehensive review of issues faced by women and gender minorities in technology fields. It is global in perspective, including chapters about Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America. It is intersectional in approach, including the standpoint of racial and ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQA+ community.Providing a unified look at the challenges faced, this insightful Handbook is an excellent resource for scholars interested in gender and social inclusion in technology fields. It also provides an informative guide for policymakers and managers in global organizations tasked with developing interventions using data-driven practices to address the gender gap.Trade Review‘Professors Trauth and Quesenberry pull together the most up-to-date and comprehensive view of the gender imbalance in the IT field that I am aware of. This is a timely infusion of what has been learned to date and why interventions to create more balance do and do not work. Given recent discussions in the Information Systems academic community, this should provide a wonderful resource to elevate the conversation from wheel spinning to serious action taking.’ -- Fred Niederman, St. Louis University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Gender and Technology 1 Eileen M. Trauth and Jeria L. Quesenberry 2 An overview of the individual differences theory of gender and IT 22 Eileen M. Trauth PART I ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES 3 Invisible but ubiquitous: leveraging ICTs for development in gendered systems of exclusion – Nigeria and Cameroon 56 Patience Akpan-Obong 4 The gender gap in information systems service organizations in Korea: a contextual hierarchy perspective 77 Gyeung-min Kim, Namjae Cho and Hee-Sun Kim 5 The FESTA project: doing gender equality work in STEM faculties in Europe 90 Minna Salminen-Karlsson 6 National culture and policy institutionalizing workplace change: supporting women’s career progression in STEM through Athena SWAN 106 Regina Connolly and Ita Richardson 7 Promoting gender equality at two European universities through structural change interventions: the EQUAL-IST project 126 Elena Gorbacheva and Isabel Ramos 8 Connected and committed? Culture and context in career entrenchment of Indian and native-born women in the United States IT workforce 149 Monica Adya and Sangeeta Parashar 9 Thriving as women in IT publishing, leadership, and service: challenges faced and lessons learned 165 Cynthia K. Riemenschneider and Deborah J. Armstrong PART II IDENTITY INFLUENCES 10 The influence of intersectional identity on women in the IT field 182 Eileen M. Trauth 11 We cannot build equitable artificial intelligence hiring systems without the inclusion of minoritized technology workers 200 Lynette Yarger, Courtney Smith and Adanna Nedd 12 BLKGENIUS: a social-academic network for combating the underrepresentation of Black men in computing in the United States 216 Curtis C. Cain 13 Founding oSTEM: trailblazing for LGBTQA+ communities 229 Eric Patridge 14 The chains that bind: gender, disability, race, and IT accommodations 252 Eleanor T. Loiacono and Shiya Cao 15 Gender and work–life balance in the IT field 273 Manju K. Ahuja PART III INDIVIDUAL INFLUENCES 16 Empowering Techgirls: role modeling and mentoring the next generation in STEM 296 Tricia Massey, Jenine Beekhuyzen and Sue Nielsen 17 Intervention organizations to increase women’s engagement with IT: a case study of NCWIT 311 Roli Varma 18 Lessons from women coping with IT workplace barriers 328 Hala Annabi 19 Job crafting to recruit and retain women in the IT workforce: what would it take to keep you here? 351 Mari W. Buche 20 Applying a feminist ethics of care in conducting internet-based archival gender research: the case of studying Gamergate Reactions 369 Florence M. Chee, Todd Suomela, Bettina Berendt and Geoffrey Martin Rockwell 21 Longitudinal effects on individual influences in women’s pursuit of computer science education 386 Jeria L. Quesenberry 22 Am I good enough? Sources of IT self-efficacy as key impediments to narrowing the IT gender gap 398 K.D. Joshi Index 415

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Book SynopsisThis timely book is an innovative look at how blockchain technology will transform the structure of social and economic life. The security of blockchain supports the provision and maintenance of reliable databases and the creation of rule-based governance protocols. Leading contributors expertly review the impact of blockchain on existing structures of law, monetary systems, supply chains and business organizations. Using economic and institutional theory, the book presents a vision for understanding the future development of blockchain technology and outlines the likely path of transformation that blockchain will drive in industry, supply chains and firms. Furthermore, it answers key questions such as: will Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency become the money of the future? How has blockchain already begun transforming economic activity? How can we evaluate the likely trajectory of technological development and application? This informative book is an excellent resource for academics or professionals interested in a theoretically sound perspective on blockchain. Written in an accessible prose, it provides an introduction for non-experts looking to learn more about the wide-ranging implications of blockchain and cryptocurrency.Trade Review‘How are blockchain programs, on which cryptocurrencies and other applications are built, shaping the future of firms, markets, and finance? James Caton has assembled a first-rate group of contributors to provide cutting-edge insights into the new technologies and their sometimes surprising implications. Readers of this volume will be a step ahead in understanding what is happening in the evolution of payment systems and in the governance of market institutions.’ -- Lawrence H. White, George Mason University, US‘The Economics of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency reveals the profound impact of blockchain, and its growing suite of applications, in reconfiguring the costs of economic exchange. This engaging collection, written by leading experts in the field, represents an essential guide to understanding the operational and institutional implications of blockchain.’ -- Mikayla Novak, Australian National University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to The Economics of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency x James Lee Caton 1 Institutional cryptoeconomics 1 Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts 2 Can cryptocurrencies become a commonly accepted means of exchange? 13 Nicolás Cachanosky 3 Fiat money, cryptocurrencies and monetary theory 29 David Glasner 4 The value of bitcoin in the year 2141 (and beyond!) 51 Joshua R. Hendrickson and William J. Luther 5 The Silicon Savannah: exploring the promise of cryptocurrency in Africa 69 Scott Burns 6 How blockchain technology can impact agriculture 95 Prithviraj Lakkakula and William W. Wilson 7 Blockchain and the law – legality, law-like characteristics, and legal applications 117 Eric Alston 8 Signals and incentives in blockchain applications 145 Cameron Harwick 9 Trustless architecture and the V-form organization 165 Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts 10 On V-form firms: governance, cryptocurrency, and internalization on the blockchain 181 James Lee Caton 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 SynopsisInformed by the latest theoretical developments in studies of the social impacts of digital technology, Smart-Tech Society provides an empirically grounded and conceptually informed analysis of the impacts and paradoxes of smart-technology.While making life more convenient, smart-tech has also been associated with a loss of privacy and control over decision-making autonomy. Mark Whitehead and William Collier provide a critical analysis of the lived experience of smart-technology, presenting stories of varied social engagements with digital platforms and devices. Chapters explore the myriad contexts in and through which smart-tech insinuates itself within everyday life, the benefits it brings, and the processes through which it is being resisted. Detailed case studies explore the impacts of smart-technology across a broad range of fields including personal health, work, social life, urban management, and politics.Presenting new empirical evidence and analytical perspectives on the relationships between humans and smart-tech, this book will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of sociology, political science, human geography, and technology studies.Trade Review‘The pages of this book take the reader on a perceptive and revealing journey through the smart-tech society. Bringing clarity to these disorientating and far-reaching transformations, it offers guidance, understanding and an irresistible call to engage with how the future might yet be shaped.’ -- David Beer, University of York, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Smart-Tech Revolution 2. Analysing the smart-tech society 3. Prediction, personalisation, and the data self 4. Behaviour and freedom 5. The smart body—from cyborgs to the quantified self 6. Smart working and the corporation 7. Smart-tech states 8. Dumbing down—recalibrating our relations with smart technology 9. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, China has become a world leader in e-commerce, e-currency, 5G and artificial intelligence, cementing itself as a major competitor to established powers. Gerald Chan poses the question: How has China pulled this off? Arguing that the answer lies in the country’s Digital Silk Road, a multi- faceted programme to connect the world via digital means, the book explores how China has shaped the development of the digital order, secured a critical role in internet governance and upset the status-quo powers.Integrating empirical research with innovative theory, this forward-looking book is the first of its kind to unravel the complex web spun through China’s Digital Silk Road. Chapters offer a unique Chinese perspective on the evolution of the global digital economy and digital currencies, highlighting China’s growing influence in driving technological development and setting global industrial standards. Following on from Chan’s previous publications on the country’s high-speed rail networks and maritime infrastructure, China’s Digital Silk Road offers a timely look at China’s predominant role in shaping the global digital order.Advancing a geo-developmental framework to analyse China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the book will be of unique interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics and global development.Trade Review‘Professor Gerald Chan’s latest addition to his trio on China’s Belt and Road Initiative examines the background of China’s technological drive and assists readers to better understand the escalating tension over technology – and ultimately the contest for global hegemony – between China and the United States. Readers will find its informal writing style easy to follow, which is important for an otherwise complex subject.’ -- Linda Chelan Li, City University of Hong Kong‘China’s new Silk Road, or Belt and Road Initiative, is massive in scope, with implications reaching beyond the future of China and humanity, and into space. And this book, also huge in scope, is everywhere far-sighted, thoughtful, perceptive, analytical and interesting. A splendid read for anybody interested in humanity’s future.’ -- Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface and acknowledgements 1. Introduction to China’s Digital Silk Road 2. The new Silk Road: land, sea, digital 3. Theorising the Belt and Road: geodevelopmentalism revisited 4. The digital Silk Road: driving the fourth Industrial Revolution? 5. The mobile Silk Road: digital economy and the e-yuan 6. The cable Silk Road: over the land and under the sea 7. The space Silk Road: reaching for the stars? 8. Digital diplomacy and internet governance 9. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisDigital innovations influence every aspect of our lives in this increasingly technological world. Firms that pursue digital innovations must think carefully about how digital technologies shape the nature, process and outcomes of innovation as well as the long- and short-term social, economic and cultural consequences of their offerings. The Handbook contributes to building a transdisciplinary understanding of digital innovation by bringing together a diverse set of leading scholars from business, engineering, economics, science and public policy. Their distinct perspectives advance ideas and principles intended to set the agenda for future research on digital innovation in ways that inform not only firm-level strategies and practices but policy decisions and science-focused investments as well. The first of its kind, this Handbook provides scope and depth for scholars interested in information systems and digital technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship, strategy, and digital platforms and ecosystems. In addition, it is informative and enlightening to scholars and practitioners interested in the impact of digital technologies on organizations and the broader society. Contributors include: A. Aaltonen, C. Alaimo, E. Autio, N. Berente, C. Bubel, P.N. Courant, J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, E.L. Echeverri-Carroll, A. Gawer, T.L. Griffith, V. Grover, J. Grudin, O. Henfridsson, S.L. Jarvenpaa, J. Kallinikos, M.J. Kim, J.L. King, R.J. Kulathinal, S. Kumar, K.A. Loparo, K. Lyytinen, A. Majchrzak, A. Malhotra, M.L. Markus, S. Nambisan, W. Nan, J.V. Nickerson, A. Pedraza-Avella, L.W. Rogowski, S. Seidel, L.D.W. Thomas, C. Velu, Y. Yoo, X. ZhangTrade Review'The revolution in digital technologies has fueled unprecedented levels and forms of innovation spanning individuals, firms, industries, and disciplines. Satish Nambisan, Kalle Lyytinen and Youngjin Yoo call for the first transdisciplinary approach to understanding this phenomenon. This collection of cumulative knowledge and the rare opportunity for novel connections stemming from this are vitally important in order to move forward scholarly and practitioner perspectives on digital innovation.' --Mike Fisher, Chief Technology Officer at Etsy, USTable of ContentsContents: Section 1: Introduction Chapter 1: Digital Innovation: Towards a Transdisciplinary Perspective (Nambisan, Lyytinen, Yoo) Section 2: Foundations of Digital Innovation Introduction to Section 2 (Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) Chapter 2: The New Wave of Digital Innovation: The Need for a Theory of Sociotechnical Self-Orchestration (Majchrzak & Griffith) Chapter 3: Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship in and around Institutional Voids: The Case of Fundación Cardiovascular (FCV) in Colombia (Jarvenpaa, Echeverri-Carroll, Pedraza) Chapter 4: Theorizing the Connections between Digital Innovations and Societal Transformation: Learning from the Case of M-Pesa in Kenya (Markus & Nan) Chapter 5: Agile Development as the Root Metaphor for Strategy in Digital Innovation (Berente) Section 3: Digital Platforms, Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship Introduction to Section 3 (Annabelle Gawer) Chapter 6: Value co-creation in ecosystems: Insights and research promise from three disciplinary perspectives (Autio & Thomas) Chapter 7: Remixing Systems: Collective design through modification (Nickerson) Chapter 8: Scaling Digital Enterprises (Henfridsson) Section 4: Digital Innovation, Business Models and Value Creation Introduction to Section 4 (Varun Grover) Chapter 9: Data and Value (Alaimo, Kallinikos, Aaltonen) Chapter 10: Business Model Cohesiveness Scorecard: Implications of Digitization for Business Model Innovation (Velu) Chapter 11: Automate, Informate, and Generate: Affordance Primitives of Smart Devices and the Internet of Things (Seidel & Berente) Section 5: Digital Innovation and Future of Work Introduction to Section 5 (Paul Courant) Chapter 12: Prolegomena on Digital Innovation and Jobs (King & Grudin) Chapter 13: Making the One-Sided Gig Economy Really Two-Sided: Implications for Future of Work (Malhotra) Section 6: Digital Innovation and Application Domains Introduction to Section 6 (Ken Loparo) Chapter 14: The bits and bytes of biology: Digitalization fuels an emerging generative platform for biological innovation (Kulathinal, Yoo, Kumar) Chapter 15: Innovations in Micro-robotics and their Implications in a Digital World (Rogowski, Bubel, Zhang, Kim) Section 7: Conclusion Chapter 16: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Digital Innovation: Key Themes and Directions for Future Research (Lyytinen, Nambisan, Yoo) Index

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Book SynopsisAs worldwide institutions acknowledge the necessity of digital, open, and collaborative governments, this timely book offers a comprehensive exploration of digital transformation, intergovernmental collaboration, collaborative governance, and public sector innovation.Collaborating for Digital Transformation highlights how collaborations between government organizations, as well as with the private sector and users, enhance digital transformation and public service innovation. Drawing from smart cities, online service platforms, eHealth and other initiatives across European countries, the book sheds light on the complexities, risks, and power dynamics inherent in these collaborations. It explores how the design, management, and leadership of these collaborations can overcome these challenges in different politico-administrative contexts. Through diverse research methods and by combining practical accounts with theoretical academic rigor, this forward-thinking book proposes a roadmap for more innovative and effective governments in the digital age.This book will enlighten students, scholars, and researchers in politics, public policy, governance, and administration. Offering practical guidance for effective collaboration, innovation, and coordination for digital transformation, it also appeals to politicians, policymakers, civil servants, and professionals. Being relevant, not only in smart city and eHealth domains, but across all policy areas, it's an indispensable resource for driving innovation and digitalization toward a more interconnected future.Trade Review‘Based on an impressive cross-national study, this volume identifies the collaboration hurdles that can stand in the way of the successful digital transformation of the public sector, and then provides an insightful and realistic appraisal of how we might try to overcome them.’ -- Christopher Ansell, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: collaborating for digital transformation in the public sector 2 Lise H. Rykkja, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Erik Hans Klijn and Koen Verhoest 2 Digital transformation in the public sector 13 Miriam Lips 3 Intergovernmental collaboration in the context of digital transformation: state-of-the-art and theoretical notions 31 Gerhard Hammerschmid, Jessica Breaugh and Maike Rackwitz 4 Conditions for successful public-private collaboration for public service innovation 52 Chesney Callens and Koen Verhoest PART II INTERGOVERNMENTAL COLLABORATION FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 5 The coordination of digital government platforms: the role of administrative tradition and collaboration history 81 Jessica Breaugh and Steven Nõmmik 6 The coordination of smart cities: insights from a cross-case analysis on the implementation of smart city strategies 103 Maike Rackwitz and Dries van Doninck 7 Leadership for intergovernmental collaboration towards digital transformation 124 Maike Rackwitz, Jessica Breaugh and Gerhard Hammerschmid PART III PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION 8 The design and management of public-private eHealth partnerships 144 Chesney Callens, Koen Verhoest, Erik Hans Klijn, Lena Brogaard, Veiko Lember, Vicente Pina and Dries van Doninck 9 Contract management and network management in public-private eHealth partnerships 168 Chesney Callens and Erik Hans Klijn 10 Viewpoints of collaboration partners on user involvement in collaborative innovation projects 197 Jaime García-Rayado and Chesney Callens 11 It is all about interaction: network structure, actor importance, and the relation to innovative outcomes 218 Tom Langbroek and Koen Verhoest PART IV CONCLUSIONS 12 Collaboration for digital transformation: so much more than just technology 241 Koen Verhoest, Erik Hans Klijn, Lise H. Rykkja and Gerhard Hammerschmid Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book takes an insightful look at rethinking innovation and how lessons can be learnt from what is a major turning point in our contemporary societies: the urgent need to reduce the use or consumption of certain substances and technologies due to the dangers they pose to our environments and current way of life. Using theoretical reflection and empirical work in a broad range of sectors including agriculture, food, health, religion, energy, packaging, markets and digital technology, eminent scholars utilise new perspectives to enrich our understanding of innovation processes and how these can be transformed.New Horizons for Innovation Studies provides a deep dive into what our production and consumption processes are, how they could be innovated differently and how those innovations could interrogate social science concepts and in particular science and technology studies. Chapters explore key case studies and topics for innovation studies, such as the reduced use of antibiotics and pesticides, car-free cities, bans on plastic use and decreasing meat consumption. Further, the book challenges both the partial and complete withdrawal of certain substances and technologies that currently sit at the heart of our contemporary lifestyles, and explores the emergence of alternatives as well as the potential resistance, risks and outcomes.This engaging book will provide a thought-provoking read for scholars and graduate students in innovation policy, science and technology studies and public policy.Trade Review‘With social and environmental imperatives for transformation now taken for granted even at the most elite levels of international governance, there could hardly be a more timely and topical subject: the rethinking of innovation to be as much about how to withdraw from technologies as how to grow them. The result is a refreshingly deeply researched, wide-ranging and ambitious collection of accessible chapters both new and old – all highly practical and policy-relevant. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in taking seriously the responsibilities to steer innovation in directions that deliver peace, social justice and ecological flourishing.’ -- Andy Stirling, University of Sussex, UK‘This is a wonderful and timely contribution to innovation studies, and to science, technology and society studies. Everyone in those fields should read it, and profit from it.’ -- Arie Rip, University of Twente, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Beyond withdrawal, rethinking innovation in society: introductory considerations 1 Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck PART I FRAMEWORKS 1 Withdrawal in the light of a historical analysis of innovation 18 Benoît Godin 2 Governing the discontinuation of large socio-technical systems 29 Pierre-Benoît Joly, Marc Barbier and Bruno Turnheim 3 How do technologies die? Studies of decline in literature on technological change 47 Zahar Koretsky PART II MECHANISMS FOR DETACHMENT 4 Going gluten-free: individual trajectories of avoidance 71 Grégori Akermann and Paul Coeurquetin 5 Reducing plastic use: from problems and solutions to problematisation 88 Gay Hawkins and Anisah Madden 6 Food without animals: substitution and exclusion 106 Sébastien Mouret and Jocelyne Porcher 7 The value of the Negawatt: load-shifting electricity consumption 120 Thomas Reverdy PART III INTENSITY OF DETACHMENT 8 Preventive moderation: vaccine hesitancy and vaccine selection in Quebec, 1960s–1990s 136 Laurence Monnais 9 Strong withdrawal or weak withdrawal? Problematization of pesticides and categorization of their alternatives in Argentina, Brazil and France 153 Frédéric Goulet, Alexis Aulagnier and Matthieu Hubert 10 Reducing antibiotic use in livestock farming 168 Nicolas Fortané, Florence Hellec, Florence Beaugrand, Nathalie Joly, and Mathilde Paul 11 White paper in a greening world: a journey through struggles over substitutes for chlorine bleaching 182 Nicolas Baya-Laffite PART IV DE-INTERMEDIATION AND REAGENCEMENT 12 Breaking with the assumption of centralization: an attempt to set up a peer-to-peer digital network for sharing agricultural data 201 Léa Stiefel and Dominique Vinck 13 Withdrawing as a matter of re-agencing: the case of bulk sales 216 Franck Cochoy, Alexandre Mallard and Cyrus Eugenio PART V RESISTANCE AND LOCKING 14 When industry holds back the withdrawal of an endocrine disruptor 230 Henri Boullier 15 Pharmaceutical markets and drug withdrawals 245 Nils Kessel 16 Uninventing the bomb 258 Donald MacKenzie 17 Aftercare, or doing less with discontinuation niche governance 268 Peter Stegmaier Conclusion: New Horizons for Innovation Studies 289 Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck Index 300

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Book SynopsisAs artificial intelligence (AI) continues to seep into more areas of society and culture, critical social perspectives on its technologies are more urgent than ever before. Bringing together state-of-the-art research from experienced scholars across disciplines, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of critical AI studies. Moving beyond narrow technological definitions of AI, the Handbook provides readers with an in-depth understanding of its social, ethical and political implications. Chapters cover a broad range of timely issues related to AI, including the risk of bias and discrimination in its systems, its impact on democracy and governance, concerns surrounding privacy and surveillance, and the use of its technologies in decision-making processes. Underscoring the urgent need for deeper critical analyses of AI, the Handbook constitutes a major contribution to the ongoing discussion about what critical studies of AI can entail, what questions they may pose, and what concepts they can offer to address them. Rich in theoretical and empirical analysis, this cutting-edge Handbook will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars of digital sociology and science and technology studies. Its extensive coverage of this emerging field will also appeal to practitioners, developers and policymakers seeking orientation in the complex social and political dynamics of AI.Trade Review‘AI is not only technology; it also means power. In times when AI ethics is often closely aligned with big tech and when AI teams are expelled or undervalued, a critical view of AI is much needed. Addressing a diversity of aspects from political economy to sociotechnological imaginaries and activism, this Handbook offers a range of critical scholarship on AI that shows how AI is entangled with the social structures and power relations in society. A welcome antidote to the ideologies of technological optimism, technodeterminism, and technosolutionism, and great support for the critical and interdisciplinary project of developing technology that contributes to, rather than undermines, conviviality and the common good.’ -- Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna, Austria‘AI has proliferated in everyday life. Virtual assistants such as Alexa and Siri are present on our phones and in our homes. More and more people use robotic lawnmowers and robot hoovers. There are bots on the Internet that post, comment, and like. Robots and AI have changed the world of work. ChatGPT has given us an impression of how online search could look like in the future. The world’s largest military forces are investing heavily into the development of AI. We need to better understand what impacts AI has on society. For doing so, we need critical theories and analysis of AI. The Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence provides 75 chapters that help us to better understand what it means to critically study AI in society. This book is excellent reading for everyone interested in AI & society.’ -- Christian Fuchs, Paderborn University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing critical studies of artificial intelligence 1 Simon Lindgren PART I AI AND CRITICAL THEORY: CONCEPTUAL DISCUSSIONS 2 Recursive power: AI governmentality and technofutures 21 Fenwick McKelvey and Jonathan Roberge 3 The danger of smart ideologies: counter-hegemonic intelligence and antagonistic machines 33 Peter Bloom 4 The becoming of AI: a critical perspective on the contingent formation of AI 43 Anna Jobin and Christian Katzenbach 5 Artificial intelligence and the problem of radical uncertainty 56 Robert Holton 6 Trading human autonomy for technological automation 67 Simona Chiodo 7 Automation anxiety: a critical history – the apparently odd recurrence of debates about computation, AI and labour 79 Caroline Bassett and Ben Roberts 8 AI, critical knowledge and subjectivity 94 Eran Fisher 9 Habits and habitus in algorithmic culture 108 Stefka Hristova 10 Algorithms and emerging forms of intimacy 117 Tanja Wiehn 11 It’s incomprehensible: on machine learning and decoloniality 128 Abeba Birhane and Zeerak Talat 12 Pragmatism and AI: a critical approach 141 Johnathan Flowers 13 Digital humanism and AI 152 Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Hans-Jörg Kreowski 14 Beyond AI solutionism: toward a multi-disciplinary approach to artificial intelligence in society 163 Simon Lindgren and Virginia Dignum 15 Artificial intelligence and social memory: towards the cyborgian remembrance of an advancing mnemo-technic 173 Samuel Merrill 16 Making sense of AI-influenced geopolitics using STS theories 187 Arun Teja Polcumpally PART II AI IMAGINARIES AND DISCOURSES 17 Bothering the binaries: unruly AI futures of hauntings and hope at the limit 199 Amanda Lagerkvist and Bo Reimer 18 Imaginaries of artificial intelligence 209 Vanessa Richter, Christian Katzenbach and Mike Schäfer 19 Language of algorithms: agency, metaphors and deliberations in AI discourses 224 Kaisla Kajava and Nitin Sawhney 20 Technological failures, controversies and the myth of AI 237 Andrea Ballatore and Simone Natale 21 Marking the lines of artificial intelligence 245 Mario Verdicchio 22 The critical potential of science fiction 254 Miroslav Kotásek 23 A critical review of news framing of artificial intelligence 266 Ching-Hua Chuan 24 Media representations of artificial intelligence: surveying the field 277 Saba Rebecca Brause, Jing Zeng, Mike S. Schäfer and Christian Katzenbach 25 Educational imaginaries of AI 289 Lina Rahm PART III THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI: DATAFICATION AND SURVEILLANCE 26 Critical AI studies meets critical political economy 302 Pieter Verdegem 27 The industry of automating automation: the political economy of the AI industry 312 James Steinhoff 28 AI, class societies and the social life of reason 323 Scott Timcke 29 Re-imagining democracy: AI’s challenge to political theory 333 Guy Paltieli 30 AI as automated inequality: statistics, surveillance and discrimination 343 Mike Zajko 31 Digital tracking and infrastructural power 354 Stine Lomborg, Rasmus Helles and Signe Sophus Lai 32 AI and the everyday political economy of global health 367 Michael Strange and Jason Tucker 33 Addressing global inequity in AI development 378 Chinasa T. Okolo PART IV AI TRANSPARENCY, ETHICS AND REGULATION 34 A critical approach to AI ethics 391 Rosalie A. Waelen 35 Power and inequalities: lifting the veil of ignorance in AI ethics 402 Anais Resseguier 36 Barriers to regulating AI: critical observations from a fractured field 413 Ashlin Lee, Will Orr, Walter G. Johnson, Jenna Imad Harb and Kathryn Henne 37 Why artificial intelligence is not transparent: a critical analysis of its three opacity layers 424 Manuel Carabantes 38 How to critique the GDPR: when data protection is turned against the working class 435 Carl Öhman 39 Four facets of AI transparency 445 Stefan Larsson, Kashyap Haresamudram, Charlotte Högberg, Yucong Lao, Axel Nyström, Kasia Söderlund and Fredrik Heintz 40 An inclusive approach to ascribing responsibility in robot ethics 456 Janina Loh 41 Machines and morals: moral reasoning ability might indicate how close AI is to attaining true equivalence with human intelligence 470 Sukanto Bhattacharya 42 A women’s rights perspective on safe artificial intelligence inside the United Nations 481 Eleonore Fournier-Tombs 43 From ethics to politics: changing approaches to AI education 493 Randy Connolly 44 The transparency of reason: ethical issues of AI art 504 Dejan Grba PART V AI BIAS, NORMATIVITY AND DISCRIMINATION 45 Learning about human behavior? The transcendental status of grammars of action in the processing of HCI data 516 Andreas Beinsteiner 46 Algorithmic moderation: contexts, perceptions, and misconceptions 528 João Gonçalves and Ina Weber 47 Algorithmic exclusion 538 Kendra Albert and Maggie Delano 48 Prospective but disconnected partners: AI-informed criminal risk prediction 549 Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Fernando Avila 49 Power asymmetries, epistemic imbalances and barriers to knowledge: the (im)possibility of knowing algorithms 563 Ana Pop Stefanija 50 Gender, race and the invisible labor of artificial intelligence 573 Laila Brown 51 Machine learning normativity as performativity 584 Tyler Reigeluth 52 Queer eye on AI: binary systems versus fluid identities 595 Karin Danielsson, Andrea Aler Tubella, Evelina Liliequist and Coppélie Cocq 53 Representational silence and racial biases in commercial image recognition services in the context of religion 607 Anton Berg and Katja Valaskivi 54 Social media as classification systems: procedural normative choices in user profiling 619 Severin Engelmann and Orestis Papakyriakopoulos 55 From hate speech recognition to happiness indexing: critical issues in datafication of emotion in text mining 631 Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Juho Pääkkönen and Emily Öhman PART VI POLITICS AND ACTIVISM IN AI 56 Democratic friction in speech governance by AI 643 Niva Elkin-Koren and Maayan Perel 57 Automating empathy: overview, technologies, criticism 656 Andrew McStay and Vian Bakir 58 Ideational tensions in the Swedish automation debate: initial findings 670 Kalle Eriksson 59 En-countering AI as algorhythmic practice 682 Shintaro Miyazaki 60 Introducing political ecology of Creative-Ai 691 Andre Holzapfel PART VII AI AND AUTOMATION IN SOCIETY 61 Automated decision-making in the public sector 705 Vanja Carlsson, Malin Rönnblom and Andreas Öjehag-Pettersson 62 The landscape of social bot research: a critical appraisal 716 Harry Yaojun Yan and Kai-Cheng Yang 63 Introducing robots and AI in human service organizations: what are the implications for employees and service users? 726 Susanne Tafvelin, Jan Hjelte, Robyn Schimmer, Maria Forsgren, Vicenc Torra and Andreas Stenling 64 Critically analyzing autonomous materialities 737 Mikael Wiberg 65 Exploring critical dichotomies of AI and the Rule of Law 749 Markus Naarttijärvi 66 The use of AI in domestic security practices 763 Jens Hälterlein 67 Methodological reflections on researching the sociotechnical imaginaries of AI in policing 773 Carrie B. Sanders and Janet Chan 68 Emergence of artificial intelligence in health care: a critical review 783 Annika M. Svensson and Fabrice Jotterand 69 The politics of imaginary technologies: innovation ecosystems as political choreographies for promoting care robotics in health care 793 Jaana Parviainen 70 AI in education: landscape, vision and critical ethical challenges in the 21st century 804 Daniel S. Schiff and Rinat Rosenberg-Kima 71 Critically assessing AI/ML for cultural heritage: potentials and challenges 815 Anna Foka, Lina Eklund, Anders Sundnes Løvlie and Gabriele Griffin 72 AI ethnography 826 Anne Dippel and Andreas Sudmann 73 Automating social theory 845 Ralph Schroeder 74 Artificial intelligence and scientific problem choice at the nexus of industry and academia 859 Steve G. Hoffman 75 Myths, techno solutionism and artificial intelligence: reclaiming AI materiality and its massive environmental costs 869 Benedetta Brevini 76 AI governance and civil society: the need for critical engagement 878 Megan LePere-Schloop and Sandy Zook Index 891

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Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of an increasingly dynamic world, driven by rapid digital innovation and technological advances, drones are becoming prolific within society. In this book, Andy Miah delivers a comprehensive analysis of the wide-reaching applications of drones, as well as a critical interrogation of the social, cultural and moral issues that they provoke. Delving into philosophical discussions about the implications of drone technology, this book shines a light on their real-world applications, the challenges they pose, and what they reveal about the human condition, when faced with a future of autonomous, intelligent robots.Trade Review'In remarkably short compass, Andy Miah has managed to present the most rounded view of drone technology currently in print. Virtually every aspect of drones -- from the mechanics and economics of their design to their use in warfare, entertainment and art -- is discussed with expert brevity and perspicuity. Arguably it is the only book available that could be read productively by anyone, regardless of the nature of their interest in drones.' -- Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, Author of Humanity 2.0.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Origins Chapter 2. Regulating Drones Chapter 3. The Brilliant Chapter 4. The Bad Chapter 5. The Beautiful Conclusion. Drones for Good?

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book expands on the notion that Big Science is not the only term to describe and investigate particularly large research projects, scientific collaborations and facilities. It investigates the significant overlap between Big Science and Research Infrastructures (RIs) in a European context since the early twenty-first century. Contributions to this innovative book not only augment the study of Big Science with new perspectives, but also launch the study of RIs as a promising new line of inquiry. Chapters testify to a generational shift that is taking place in this field, amending and complementing prior analyses of Big Science. Advancing our knowledge, this interdisciplinary book explores how Big Science and RIs can be categorized, how the politics around them can be understood, and how they relate to the surrounding science and research policy landscape of Europe. Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe will be of value to students and scholars interested in science and innovation policy across sociology, economics, management and political science. Policymakers, science administrators and operators of RIs will also benefit from the critical insights provided. Contributors include: I.K. Bolliger, A. Collsiöö, K.C. Cramer, B. D'Ippolito, H. Eriksson, T. Franssen, A. Griffiths, O. Hallonsten, J.-C. Mauduit, M. Moskovko, N. Rüffin, C.-C. Rüling, I. Ulnicane, A. WilliamsTrade Review'This book skillfully updates the literature on Big Science, containing newer perspectives on the history, sociology, and politics of research infrastructures. The interdisciplinary yet neatly integrated contributions show how ''big organizations, big machines, and big politics'' co-construct Europe and its research infrastructure.' --Cyrus Mody, Maastricht University, the Netherlands'This is an ambitious and effective coverage of the network of European Big Science institutions. It is a comprehensive and insightful volume that takes us behind purely scientific scenes to examine the policies that govern large European science projects, the legal frameworks that shape them, the funding that supports them, and the alliance-building that made them possible. The chapters are comprehensive, and reveal the political and commercial forces at work in the expanding network of European scientific institutions, as well as their crucial role in European integration and multinational cooperation.' --Robert P. Crease, Stony Brook University, US'This book, in a comprehensive and appealing way, tells a story of large scientific facilities dating back to the early Cold War and reaching the current era of integrated Research Infrastructure eco-systems. Going from a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to scientific cooperation among European states to tackle the grand challenges such as key health, environmental or quality of life problems, the book provides an evolutionary picture based on deep understanding and a solid analytical framework. The authors have done magnificent work on a topic that has been so far mostly scattered in diverse policy reports. A great analysis for anyone dipping their toe in Big Science or Research Infrastructures.' --Jan Hru ák, ESFRI Chair and The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech RepublicTable of ContentsContents: 1 Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe: History and current trends 1 Katharina C. Cramer, Olof Hallonsten, Isabel K. Bolliger and Alexandra Griffiths 2 Methods and strategies in the study of Big Science and Research Infrastructures: A review 27 Nicolas Rüffin 3 The role of European Big Science in the (geo)political challenges of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries 56 Katharina C. Cramer 4 Ever-changing Big Science and Research Infrastructures: Evolving European Union policy 76 Inga Ulnicane 5 The introduction of ESFRI and the rise of national Research Infrastructure roadmaps in Europe 101 Isabel K. Bolliger and Alexandra Griffiths 6 Intensified role of the European Union? European Research Infrastructure Consortium as a legal framework for contemporary multinational research collaboration 128 Maria Moskovko 7 Research Infrastructure funding as a tool for science governance in the humanities: A country case study of the Netherlands 157 Thomas Franssen 8 The role of research infrastructures in innovation systems: The case of Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project 177 Olof Hallonsten, Hjalmar Eriksson and August Collsiöö 9 The access and return on investment dilemma in Big Science Research Infrastructures: A case study in astronomy 198 Andrew Williams and Jean-Christophe Mauduit 10 Is there an “iron law” of Big Science? 217 Olof Hallonsten 11 Keeping a Research Infrastructure alive: Material, social, and political work at the Institut Laue-Langevin 232 Beatrice D’Ippolito and Charles-Clemens Rüling 12 Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe: Conclusions and outlook 251 Olof Hallonsten and Katharina C. Cramer Index 258

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Book SynopsisThe learning region offers a new perspective on the dynamics of change which shape the economy. This book examines the transformation of the modern economy into one in which knowledge is the most important resource and learning the most important process for economic growth.In the modern economy, successful firms, as well as governments, are those which have control over and access to flows of information and knowledge of technologies, markets, and organizational and managerial practices. In order to examine this, the authors apply innovation, industrial network and institutional theories to the many factors which together constitute learning regions: regional innovation policy, geographical clusters of collaborating firms and the role of research centres in the innovative potential of regions. They find that the learning region paradigm opens new possibilities for research and policy and use case studies in Germany, Holland and Belgium to illustrate these possibilities. The authors also examine European Union and regional government policy on innovation and regional development. Finally, they examine inter-firm and intra-firm collaboration and regional business and innovation systems. This innovative new book will prove invaluable to regional scientists, economic geographers and regional planners.Trade Review'I recommend the book . . . the book succeeds in clarifying some important aspects of the very fuzzy concept of learning regions.' -- Roberta Capello, Papers in Regional Science'The book will serve as a valuable source for all readers interested in the relation between knowledge generation, learning and regions. It is very accessible even for readers who are not familiar with the current literature. In contrast to many edited collections, the structure of the book is coherent and goes beyond a mere gathering of individual papers. Indeed, the individual contributions sum up - with the valuable help of the excellent introduction and conclusion - to a 'whole' picture . . . the book provides a very readable account of the growing literature on knowledge, learning and regions. It also offers valuable material on policy concepts, examples of policy strategies as well as empirical material.' -- Helmut Gassler, Journal of Technology Transfer'. . . I would like to recommend the book to scholars and policymakers who are interested in learning, economic development and regional innovation policies in a broad sense.' -- Robert Hassink, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie'These are the papers from an international seminar held in March 1998, giving an interesting mix of theoretical, empirical and practical contributions.' -- Aslib Book GuideTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: The Learning Region Paradigm Explained Part II: Institutions and Policy Part III: Learning and Collaboration in Practice Part IV: Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisTechnology and knowledge are two of the most important factors for maintaining a competitive advantage in today's global economy. This book examines recent trends in the analysis of knowledge and technology from an evolutionary perspective.Technology and Knowledge emphasizes the importance of knowledge in the creation of technological change and innovation. The authors examine the role of knowledge underlying innovation, and the flows of knowledge and other interactions between and within firms. Combining empirical work with simulations to solve models which are too complex to be understood analytically, the book presents a balanced and complementary approach to an area that is critically important for economic growth and international competitiveness.This book will be warmly welcomed by academics working in the fields of technological change, innovation, knowledge and industrial organization.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Investigating Innovation Strategies in an Artificial Industry 2. Monopoly and Perfect Competition 3. University Knowledge and Innovation Activities 4. The Empirical Performance of a New Inter-industry Technology Spillover Measure 5. Classifying Technological Systems 6. The Effects of Productive and Technology Specialization on Inter-firm Technological Cooperation 7. Organizational Dynamics and the Evolutionary Dilemma Between Diversity and Standardization in Mission-oriented Research Programmes 8. Surviving Technological Discontinuities through Evolutionary Systems of Innovation 9. The Properties of Routines 10. Persistence and Change of Economic Institutions Index

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Book SynopsisHow does Ricardian specialisation affect economic development in relatively advanced countries? Keld Laursen, inspired by the myriad newly-emergent neoclassical/new industrial economics contributions, makes a detailed study of the role of specialisation and structural change in advanced economies. Until now, these theoretical contributions have not been subjected to a systematic empirical investigation.The three key questions are: Do countries converge or diverge in terms of their specialisation patterns over time? Can the role of technology explain the direction of national trade specialisation? What are the implications of international specialisation patterns (and their changes) for economic growth? This study will be of immense interest to postgraduates and researchers working on theories and practices of innovation, trade, and growth.Trade Review'. . . the econometric skill shown here indicates that these authors are in the best position to introduce into mainstream economics some of the issues which have for long been debated in science and technology policy studies.' -- Daniele Archibugi, Research Policy'By exploiting newly available data sources, Keld Laursen's pioneering research makes a major empirical contribution to our understanding of the links between technology, structural change and economic growth in the world's industrially advanced countries. It also gives much needed historical perspective for current debates about the "new, knowledge-based" economy.' -- The late Keith Pavitt, formerly of SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction 1. The Theme 2. A Survey of the Theoretical Literature on Trade and Growth 3. A Comparison of Measures of International Specialisation Part II: The Development of International Specialisation Patterns 4. Structural Change in OECD Export Specialisation Patterns: De-specialisation and ‘Stickiness’ 5. Do Export and Technological Specialisation Patterns Co-evolve in Terms of Convergence or Divergence? Part III: The Determinants of International Trade Specialisation 6. Horizontal Diversification as a Determinant of Specialisation: The Case of Denmark and Pharmaceuticals 7. Do Inter-sectoral Linkages Matter for International Export Specialisation? Part IV: The Effects of International Specialisation 8. The Impact of Technological Opportunity on the Dynamics of Trade Performance 9. Does Specialisation Matter for Growth? 10. How Structural Change Differs, and Why it Matters (for Economic Growth) Part V: Conclusion 11. Retrospect and Prospect References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the potential of the new information and communication technologies? This book assesses the relationship between technological change and employment in all its dimensions, focusing on contemporary economies in Europe.The authors discuss patterns of growth, and the type of employment that countries might expect to be created following the introduction of these new technologies. Also analysed is the extent to which firms should adjust to more favourable production and distribution patterns. Institutional change is another issue addressed in detail as this encompasses the organisation of working time, systems of education and innovation and the welfare state. The final section of the book addresses the future of European employment not only from the competitive position of Europe in a global economy but also the new societal and demographic contexts that will challenge European economies in the future.Technology and the Future of European Employment ends with an overview of the many policy priorities that European societies will have to address. As such, this book will be of interest to scholars of economics, sociology and politics as well as those involved in European studies, technology and innovation, and labour economics. Civil servants in relevant national departments and organisations will also find the book of interest and value.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Long-term Structural Changes Part II: Sectoral Changes and Demand Part III: Changes in Organization and Distribution Part IV: Institutional Change Index

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Book SynopsisThis book makes significant advances in analysing the relationship between technology and society. It highlights both the policy implications of this relationship and new possibilities for intervention by government, policymakers, managers and the public.Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy examines and utilises a variety of recently emerging concepts which highlight the scope for local discretion and choice in the way that technologies are designed and used as well as the broader structures and systems that may serve to restrict choice. By applying these concepts to an analysis of case studies of various social and technical settings, the book explores their utility for understanding the ways in which contemporary technologies are developed and applied and how they are made to influence society.Academics and researchers from a wide variety of perspectives will find this new book fascinating reading, including scholars from science and technology studies, technology policy and the management of technology. Technology policymakers and practitioners would also find the book of interest.Trade Review'This volume represents the latest thinking of the eminent group of scholars dedicated to our understanding of the "social shaping of technology". They have joined economic historians, evolutionary economists, and those doing studies of innovation, in enriching our understanding of the important yet subtle interactions between technology and society.' -- The late Keith Pavitt, formerly of SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Overview of Developments in the Field and Their Implications for Policy Part II: New Tools for Analysing and Intervening Index

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Book SynopsisThis outstanding collection charts the work of Jan Fagerberg on the relationship between technology, growth and international competitiveness. With an original introduction and a mix of previously published and unpublished material, the book covers all the main issues including: the technology gap and differences of growth and welfare; structural factors in the growth of exports and production, and the relationship between growth of GDP and trade performance. The final chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and applied work on technology and competitiveness.Trade Review'Students and researchers who do not know much about Neo-Schumpeterian macroeconomics should read this book. It offers quick and easy access to well-respected empirical articles in this area and to some policy-oriented articles of interest especially to researchers oriented towards technology policy in smaller, open economies. Researchers who are already quite familiar with this type of work should do three things. First, they should advise their students to read this volume. Second, they should borrow this book from these students to read the introduction, and third, they should closely monitor future work by Jan Fagerberg.' -- Bart Los, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'A brilliant, articulate and eminently readable collection of essays by one of Norway's leading economists.' -- Angus Maddison, University of Groningen, The Netherlands'For over 20 years, Jan Fagerberg has been one of the most authoritative and also one of the most original writers on the theory of economic growth. He combines a deep grounding in classical growth theory with a thorough critical understanding of the quantitative techniques used in many contemporary and recent growth models. His own approach is characterised by breadth of historical analysis as well as quantitative empirical rigour. This is a rare combination and these essays deserve to be very widely read and discussed.' -- Christopher Freeman, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Technology and Growth 1. A Technology Gap Approach to Why Growth Rates Differ 2. ‘Modern Capitalism’ in the 1970s and 1980s 3. East Asian Growth: A Critical Assessment 4. Heading for Divergence? Regional Growth in Europe Reconsidered 5. Technology, Growth and Unemployment across European Regions 6. Vision and Fact: A Critical Essay on the Growth Literature Part II: Technology, Trade and Structural Change 7. Structural Changes in International Trade: Who Gains, Who Loses? 8. The Method of Constant Market Shares Analysis Reconsidered 9. Diffusion, Structural Change and Intra-Regional Trade: The Case of Nordic Countries 1961–1983 10. Small Open Economies in the World Market for Electronics: The Case of the Nordic Countries 11. Europe at the Crossroads: The Challenge from Innovation-Based Growth Part III: Technology and Competitiveness 12. International Competitiveness 13. User–Producer Interaction, Learning and Comparative Advantage 14. Is There a Large-Country Advantage in High-Tech? 15. Competitiveness, Scale and R&D 16. Technology and Competitiveness Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisFor much of the twentieth century, mainstream economists have treated human agents in their models as if they were rational beings of unbounded computational capacity - the notorious 'Homo Economicus' of much economic theory. However, the patent inadequacies of this understanding of human nature have become increasingly apparent, and economists have begun looking for more realistic models, incorporating the insights of evolutionary theory. The authors address the question of human nature in economics, examining not only some of the recent writing on this subject in evolutionary psychology and related disciplines, but also the ideas of important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition. Beginning with the ancient Greeks and progressing to the modern day, the contributors explore the works of such thinkers as Augustine, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Alfred Marshall and Kenneth Boulding.Many of these works are placed in a Darwinian, evolutionary perspective, with the imperative that the study of human nature must be consistent with our understanding of human evolution, and should consider how human beings are moulded by cultural and institutional influences. Naturally, Darwin's own view of human nature is also explored, undermining the mistaken notion that Darwinism promotes human nature as greedy, uncooperative and self-seeking.This enlightening, original and highly readable work will be of great interest to professional economists and students, researchers and teachers of evolutionary economics.Trade Review'Through an outstanding collection of essays by leading scholars, John Laurent explains how evolutionary economics has come of age.' -- Viviana de Giovinazzo, Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of ContentsContents: Preface by Geoffrey M. Hodgson Introduction 1. Evolution and the Nature of Man in Greek Thought 2. Augustine on Economic Man 3. Adam Smith’s Theory of Human Nature 4. Malthus on Indolence 5. Charles Darwin on Human Nature 6. Alfred Marshall on Homo oeconomicus: Evolution versus Utilitarianism? 7. Kropotkin and Reclus: Geographers, Evolution, and ‘Mutual Aid’ 8. Sounding the Trumpet: T.A. Jackson on Darwin, Marx and Human Existence 9. Kenneth Boulding: Man of Images 10. Fritz Machlup: ‘How One Thing Led to Another’ 11. Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Homo oeconomicus: The Concept of Universal Nomadism Index

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Book SynopsisIt is almost universally accepted that we are moving increasingly towards an information society, where knowledge and learning are the new currency of power. This book seeks to challenge this axiom by looking in more detail at the subtle relationships between knowledge and social development. The editors are at pains to differentiate the process of knowledge creation from the simple accumulation of knowledge.The original contributions within this book are aimed at capturing new socio-economic trends and finding policy strategies promoting the learning society in Europe through joint efforts and integrated actions on innovation, competence building and social cohesion.Innovation, Competence Building and Social Cohesion in Europe will be of special interest to researchers and scholars of science and innovation and technical change. Its policy recommendations will ensure that the book will also appeal to social scientists of education policy.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. Towards a Learning Society Part I: Fostering Innovation Introductory Note: Novelty, Knowledge and Learning 2. Interactions Between Policy Learning and Innovation Theory 3. Manna Trajectories and Networks: Shifting Heuristics in the Economics of Innovation and New Technologies 4. Policy Integration and Action Diversification: Learning from the Portuguese Path Part II: Promoting Organisational Learning Introductory Note: Innovation and Organisational Change 5. Understanding Technological and Organisational Change 6. The Flexible Firm: New Concepts and Differences Between the Nordic Systems of Innovation 7. Broadening the Analysis of Innovation Systems – Competition, Organisational Change and Employment Dynamics in the Danish System Part III: Building Competences Introductory Note: Innovation and Competence Building 8. On Knowledge and Learning for the New Millennium 9. Low Skills – A Social Problem for Europe 10. Competence Building in Life-Wide Learning 11. Trade Unions in Western Europe: An Overview and Prospects for Social Inclusion and Competence Building Part IV: Striving for Social Cohesion Introductory Note: Innovation and Social Cohesion 12. Unemployment, Work and Welfare 13. Locally-Based Actions to Counteract Social Exclusion: What We May Learn from TSER Research 14. Globalisation, Social Inequality and the Role of Country-Specific Institutions Index

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Book Synopsis"Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other." -Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy In Uncommon Sense, Peter Cochrane's follow up to the radical 108 Tips for Time Traveller, Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control. People balked when Peter suggested a wholesale move to eWorking, the rise of email and text messaging, and the dotcom regime mirroring the boom and bust cycle of the industrial revolution. His predictions of the use and growth of mobile devices and communication, or use of chip implants for humans to replace ID cards, passports, and medical records, or iris scanners and fingerprint readers - were all seen as unlikely. Today they are a reality. How then will the world react to his predictions as set out in Uncommon Sense of a networked world of distributed ignorance and sharing overcoming an old world of concentrated skill and control? To everything becoming 'Napsterised' in every dimension, where storage and processing power cost nothing, and become connected without the help of the old network companies? A world where individuals create their own networks, where laws of copyright and resale, and old business models have to be changed as giant industries are dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th Century and into the 21st? Peter Cochrane poses and answers questions, suggests solutions, and raises red flags on issues that need to be addressed. Tables, diagrams, pictures and illustrations generously support all of the text, with the most difficult aspects illustrated by simulations and other material on a CD and links to a web site with an ongoing expansion of the themes addressed.Trade Review"You will find it hard to put down..." (Reading Chronicle, 29/7/04) "A series of remarkable insights into work, communication, the family, communities and just about everything else touched by technology" (The Times, 23rd September, 2004) "You will find it hard to put down." (Institute of Directors, Autumn 2004) "...a man with something to say to a world that should listen." (City to Cities, November/ December 2004) "...his ideas are provocative, his opinions refreshing and his knowledge extensive...ideal for holiday reading..." (Library & Information Update, July 05) "...a series of challenging insights into work, communication and the family... a must-read for anyone..." (Long Range Planning, Number 38, 2005)Table of ContentsStandby xi Where Did This Book Come From? xv Byte 00 – Boot Up 1 Byte 01 – Education That Doesn’t Fit 8 Byte 02 – Conference Turnaround 13 Byte 03 – Salesmanship 17 Byte 04 – The Coming Oil Crisis 22 Byte 05 – Summits, Models and Machines 26 Byte 06 – Counter-Intuitive Networks 30 Byte 07 – Linear and Non-Linear 35 Byte 08 – Exponential Growth – So Misunderstood 40 Byte 09 – Don’t Make Life Harder Than It Already Is 48 Byte 10 – The 3G Chasm – Deeper Than We Thought 53 Byte 11 – Science and Belief 58 Byte 12 – Cochrane’s Law of Secretaries 63 Byte 13 – Control Freaks – Scales of Grey 67 Byte 14 – Butterfl yWings.com 72 Byte 15 – Short-Term Economics 78 Byte 16 – No Market Savvy 82 Byte 17 – How Was Christmas Online For You? 85 Byte 18 – Wrong Shopping Protocol 90 Byte 19 – Chips in Everything – Including Me 95 Byte 20 – The Cyborgs Are Here 99 Byte 21 – Web Realities 103 Byte 22 – Another Management Goof! 107 Byte 23 – Porno or No Porno? 111 Byte 24 – Uncontrollable Bits 115 Byte 25 – Who Goes There? 119 Byte 26 – Wireless Everything 123 Byte 27 – Communications Compromised 127 Byte 28 – Insecure Thinking 132 Byte 29 – Wear, Where, Were-ables 137 Byte 30 – How Many Mobile Phones Do You Need? 141 Byte 31 – The Right Technology For The Right Job 145 Byte 32 – Network Power 149 Byte 33 – DIY Networking 154 Byte 34 – Stupid Entertainment 159 Byte 35 – Net Police 164 Byte 36 – Who’d Be a Copyright Lawyer? 168 Byte 37 – Software Licensing – Time To Get Angry 172 Byte 38 – Technology Fatigue 176 Byte 39 – Circuit or Packet – Clean or Dirty? 180 Byte 40 – It’s Our Brains That Lack Bandwidth 184 Byte 41 – Save Everything – But Don’t Be Tidy 189 Byte 42 – The Blue Sack 193 Byte 43 – Being a Squirrel 197 Byte 44 – Reliability and Downtime 203 Byte 45 – Screen Tests 208 Byte 46 – G-Force 212 Byte 47 – Naturism in Engineering 216 Byte 48 – An Invisible Revolution 222 Byte 49 – The Lull Before – Smarter Machines? 227 Byte 50 – Sleep? 231 Index 235

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Book SynopsisAccording to many observers, the global digital divide - the extent to which information technology is benefiting developed as opposed to developing countries - has already established itself as the single most pervasive theme of the twenty-first century. The purpose of this book is to explore some of the ways in which this divide can be overcome both within and between nations. Employing a rigorous analytical framework, the author bases his analysis on the concept of international technological dualism. He argues that one possible solution to the problem is the availability of affordable technologies, such as low-cost computers, which are specifically designed for the income levels and socio-economic conditions of developing countries. He also emphasises that the most important aim of any policy measure should be to provide universal access to information technologies, rather than individual ownership. Depending on whether or not this divide can be bridged will, to a large degree, determine whether developing countries are able to attain higher levels of productivity, prosperity and global integration.Development economists, international policymakers and NGOs will all welcome the book's emphasis on various low cost technologies and their application in communal settings in the developing world. The non-technical nature of this volume will also make it accessible to a broader audience who wish to understand ways of alleviating this critical problem which has the potential to become even more acute as new and ever more complex technologies emerge.Trade Review'James' Bridging the Global Digital Divide tackles an important topic: he is to be commended for bringing the focus of discussion on information and communication technologies to the capabilities and trajectories of developing countries.' -- Andrew Murphy, Economic Geography Research GroupTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Explaining the Global Digital Divide 1. Convergence and Divergence in the Global Economy: The Role of Technical Change 2. The Digital Divide between Nations as International Technological Dualism Part II: Bridging the Global Digital Divide 3. The Global Information Infrastructure Revisited 4. Low-cost Information Technology in Developing Countries: Current Opportunities and Emerging Possibilities 5. Low-cost Computing and Related Ways of Overcoming the Global Digital Divide 6. Open-source Software and the Digital Divide: Opportunities and Constraints for Developing Countries 7. Sustainable Internet Access for the Rural Poor? Elements of an Emerging Indian Model 8. A Web-based Registry of Low-cost Information Technologies for Developing Countries? 9. Universal Access to Information Technology in Developing Countries 10. The Human Development Report 2001 and Information Technology for Developing Countries: An Evaluation Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the potential of the new information and communication technologies? This book assesses the relationship between technological change and employment in all its dimensions, focusing on contemporary economies in Europe.The authors discuss patterns of growth, and the type of employment that countries might expect to be created following the introduction of these new technologies. Also analysed is the extent to which firms should adjust to more favourable production and distribution patterns. Institutional change is another issue addressed in detail as this encompasses the organisation of working time, systems of education and innovation and the welfare state. The final section of the book addresses the future of European employment not only from the competitive position of Europe in a global economy but also the new societal and demographic contexts that will challenge European economies in the future.Technology and the Future of European Employment ends with an overview of the many policy priorities that European societies will have to address. As such, this book will be of interest to scholars of economics, sociology and politics as well as those involved in European studies, technology and innovation, and labour economics. Civil servants in relevant national departments and organisations will also find the book of interest and value.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Long-term Structural Changes Part II: Sectoral Changes and Demand Part III: Changes in Organization and Distribution Part IV: Institutional Change Index

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation systems; policy analysis for knowledge-based economies; and knowledge management.In presenting the outcomes of an important body of research, the Handbook enables knowledge policy and management practitioners to be more systematically guided in their thinking and actions. The contributors cover a wide disciplinary spectrum in an accessible way, presenting concise, to-the-point discussions of critical concepts and practices that will enable practitioners to make effective research, managerial and policy decisions. They also highlight important new areas of concern to knowledge economies such as wisdom, ethics, language and creative economies that are largely overlooked. Distinguished by a combination of practical relevance and analytical rigour, this Handbook provides new insights into the basic mechanisms that constitute a knowledge economy and society, and will be invaluable to practitioners and academics in diverse areas of interest, including: knowledge management, innovation management, knowledge policy, social epistemology, and development studies.Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. Knowledge: Concepts, Policy, Implementation David Rooney, Greg Hearn and Abraham Ninan Part I: Concepts 2. The Material, Mental, Historical and Social Character of Knowledge David Rooney and Ursula Schneider 3. Wisdom, Ethics and the Postmodern Organization Bernard McKenna 4. Risk and Knowledge Joost van Loon 5. Social Epistemology: Preserving the Integrity of Knowledge About Knowledge Steve Fuller 6. Knowledge and Social Capital Hitendra Pillay Part II: Policy 7. Knowledge and Cultural Capital Stuart Cunningham 8. The Organization of Creativity in Knowledge Economics: Exploring Strategic Issues Paul Jeffcutt 9. Analysing Policy Values in a Knowledge Economy Phil Graham 10. Knowledge Issues and Policy in the Operation of Industrial Clusters Abraham Ninan 11. Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge Economy Peter Drahos Part III: Implementation 12. Information Sharing Donald M. Lamberton 13. Collaboration and the Network Form of Organization in the New Knowledge-Based Economy Thomas Mandeville 14. Exploring the Information Space: A Strategic Perspective on Information Systems Max Boisot 15. ‘Tacit Knowledge’ Versus ‘Explicit Knowledge’ Approaches to Knowledge Management Practice Ron Sanchez 16. Knowledge and Social Identity Thomas Keenan 17. Managing Creativity in the Knowledge Economy Mark Banks 18. Inexperience and Inefficiency in Information Transactions: Making the Most of Management Consultants Stuart Macdonald 19. The Knowledge Worker: A Metaphor in Search of a Meaning? Richard Joseph 20. How to be Productive in the Knowledge Economy: The Case of ICTs Greg Hearn and Thomas Mandeville 21. Digital Rights Management (DRM): Managing Digital Rights for Open Access Brian Fitzgerald and Jason Reid Index

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when a radically-new fuel or technology transforms the energy system? How does the energy system evolve at different stages of economic development? What are the implications for people's lives and their environment? Building on an award-winning article, in this exciting book Roger Fouquet investigates the impacts of technological innovations and economic development over the last seven hundred years on our ability to provide heat, power, transport and light. Using a unique data set, collected over a decade, the analysis identifies the forces driving revolutions in energy services. It highlights the tendency of markets to produce ever-cheaper energy services, which in turn incite greater energy consumption. It also examines how these revolutions affect people's well-being and the environment. The framework, analysis and insights in this book offer an original perspective on future energy markets, transitions to low-carbon economies and strategies for addressing climate change.Heat, Power and Light is an invaluable and unique contribution to this profoundly important topic. As such it will appeal to a wide audience of energy economists, climate change analysts, policymakers, economic and technology historians and economists more broadly.Trade Review'This book presents a fascinating accumulation of economic "facts" relating to the demand for and the supply of heat, power and light. . .' -- Gay Wenban-Smith, International Energy Law Review'Fouquet undertakes a heroic effort to organize and present data on energy prices and usage since the 14th century. He then uses this data as the foundation for a narrative and analysis of changes in energy usage over the long run. . . the sifting and analysis of so many different sources to provide a coherent account will prove useful to those seeking an overview of this important topic, or for those seeking a point of entry to the study of more specific topics. Highly recommended.' -- J.L. Rosenbloom, Choice'This is an innovative and important book that stands at the intersection of energy analysis and environmental history. Fouquet's central theme is that we buy fuels, such as coal, oil or gas, only as a means to an end. That end is initially the provision of energy services, such as a warm house, hot showers, cold beers and driving around. . . Fouquet. . . traces the changes in our use. . . of energy services over the last seven centuries. . . The result has been an utter transformation in our lives. . . this book, with its copious tables and fascinating graphs, is an essential reference tool for both the energy analyst and the environmental historian.' -- Horace Herring, Environment and History'Fouquet has dug widely and deeply into English sources, publications, statistical reconstructions and the best available data sets. Having such long-run quantitative perspectives under one cover is both very useful and quite revealing. Having it analyzed in consistent terms (as changes in per capita use, prices, conversion efficiency and energy intensity) makes it, of course, even more valuable. . . Fouquet has produced an outstanding contribution to our long-run understanding of energy uses.' -- Vaclav Smil, EH.NetTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. The Past, Present and Future of Energy Services 2. Energy Demand, Technological Change and Economic Development 3. Historical Data and Methods Part II: The Past 4. Heating 5. Stationary Power 6. Transport 7. Lighting Part III: Analysis 8. Producing Cheaper Services 9. Consuming More Services 10. External Costs of Cheaper and More Energy Services 11. Policies Influencing the Trends in Energy Services Part IV: The Future 12. Future Trends in Energy Services 13. Policy Discussion Related to Long-Run Energy Services 14. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisCan new information technologies explain the discontinuities in the history of the West? This innovative book presents evidence of an overall pattern generated by radical changes in media, arguing that the major social revolutions in the West have been preceded by innovations that drastically alter the relative importance of informational scale economies (the impact of production volume on unit cost) and network effects (the gain to each member of a network when a new agent joins). These factors establish the optimal structure of a society by determining whether decision-making is centralized, decentralized or instead distributed across multiple agents. Dudley contends that an innovation that alters the balance between scale economies and network effects initially has a dramatic result, blasting apart existing interpersonal networks; however later, out of the debris, a new society emerges. The latest of these innovations - the integrated circuit - is currently generating a wave of creative destruction that is spilling over into the rest of the world. To understand the rebirth that seems likely to follow, we must examine not the recent past but the Dark Ages of European history and the intervening centuries.With detailed case studies addressing the sources of innovation in information technology, along with a conceptual framework to explain their effects, this book will be of interest to students and teachers of Western economic and social history, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the social impact of innovation.Trade Review'. . . a well-researched and well-written book, with some nice anecdotal detail and a crisp turn of phrase. The contextual detail of events is excellent.''Readers who love sweeping history, bold ideas, and provocative arguments will find a treasure trove here. Dudley examines major revolutions in communications technology - standardized written script, printing, radio/TV, and the internet - and demonstrates their impact on how societies have been organized throughout history. Taking us from Charlemagne's Empire and the Norman invasion of England to the collapse of communism and the rise of post-9/11 global terrorism, Dudley demonstrates how innovations in communications have moved states and empires.' -- Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: The Contractual Revolution 1. Words and the Man 2. The Ring of Cities Part II: The Consensual Revolution 3. The Counter-Attack of the Clones 4. King, Lords and Commons Part III: The Pre-emptive Revolution 5. Printing with Steam 6. Instant Information Part IV: The Prescriptive Revolution 7. The Circulation War 8. The Self-fulfilling Prophecy Part V: Another Contractual Revolution 9. The Decentralization of Desire Conclusion Epilogue References Index

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation systems; policy analysis for knowledge-based economies; and knowledge management.In presenting the outcomes of an important body of research, the Handbook enables knowledge policy and management practitioners to be more systematically guided in their thinking and actions. The contributors cover a wide disciplinary spectrum in an accessible way, presenting concise, to-the-point discussions of critical concepts and practices that will enable practitioners to make effective research, managerial and policy decisions. They also highlight important new areas of concern to knowledge economies such as wisdom, ethics, language and creative economies that are largely overlooked. Distinguished by a combination of practical relevance and analytical rigour, this Handbook provides new insights into the basic mechanisms that constitute a knowledge economy and society, and will be invaluable to practitioners and academics in diverse areas of interest, including: knowledge management, innovation management, knowledge policy, social epistemology, and development studies.Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. Knowledge: Concepts, Policy, Implementation David Rooney, Greg Hearn and Abraham Ninan Part I: Concepts 2. The Material, Mental, Historical and Social Character of Knowledge David Rooney and Ursula Schneider 3. Wisdom, Ethics and the Postmodern Organization Bernard McKenna 4. Risk and Knowledge Joost van Loon 5. Social Epistemology: Preserving the Integrity of Knowledge About Knowledge Steve Fuller 6. Knowledge and Social Capital Hitendra Pillay Part II: Policy 7. Knowledge and Cultural Capital Stuart Cunningham 8. The Organization of Creativity in Knowledge Economics: Exploring Strategic Issues Paul Jeffcutt 9. Analysing Policy Values in a Knowledge Economy Phil Graham 10. Knowledge Issues and Policy in the Operation of Industrial Clusters Abraham Ninan 11. Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge Economy Peter Drahos Part III: Implementation 12. Information Sharing Donald M. Lamberton 13. Collaboration and the Network Form of Organization in the New Knowledge-Based Economy Thomas Mandeville 14. Exploring the Information Space: A Strategic Perspective on Information Systems Max Boisot 15. ‘Tacit Knowledge’ Versus ‘Explicit Knowledge’ Approaches to Knowledge Management Practice Ron Sanchez 16. Knowledge and Social Identity Thomas Keenan 17. Managing Creativity in the Knowledge Economy Mark Banks 18. Inexperience and Inefficiency in Information Transactions: Making the Most of Management Consultants Stuart Macdonald 19. The Knowledge Worker: A Metaphor in Search of a Meaning? Richard Joseph 20. How to be Productive in the Knowledge Economy: The Case of ICTs Greg Hearn and Thomas Mandeville 21. Digital Rights Management (DRM): Managing Digital Rights for Open Access Brian Fitzgerald and Jason Reid Index

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Book SynopsisNowadays approximately 6 billion people use a mobile phone and they now take a central position within our daily lives. The 1990s saw a tremendous increase in the use of wireless systems and the democratization of this means of communication. To allow the communication of millions of phones, computers and, more recently, tablets to be connected, millions of access points and base station antennas have been extensively deployed. Small cells and the Internet of Things with the billions of connected objects will reinforce this trend. This growing use of wireless communications has been accompanied by a perception of risk to the public from exposure to radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic field (EMF). To address this concern, biomedical research has been conducted. It has also been important to develop and improve dosimetry methods and protocols that could be used to evaluate EMF exposure and check compliance with health limits. To achieve this, much effort has was made in the 1990s and 2000s. Experimental and numerical methods, including statistical methods, have been developed. This book provides an overview and description of the basic and advanced methods that have been developed for human RF exposure assessment. It covers experimental, numerical, deterministic and stochastic methods.Table of ContentsPreface vii Chapter 1. Human RF Exposure and Communication Systems 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Metric and limits relative to human exposure 3 1.3 European standards and regulation framework 36 1.4 Conclusion 39 Chapter 2. Computational Electromagnetics Applied to Human Exposure Assessment 41 2.1 Introduction 41 2.2 Finite difference in time domain to solve the Maxwell equations 42 2.3 FDTD and human exposure assessment 71 2.4 RF exposure assessment 103 2.5 Conclusion 117 Chapter 3. Stochastic Dosimetry 119 3.1 Motivations 119 3.2 The challenge of variability for numerical dosimetry 120 3.3 Stochastic dosimetry and polynomial chaos expansion 122 3.4 PC and numerical dosimetry 125 3.5 Calculation of the PC coefficients 131 3.6 Design of experiments 135 3.7 Predictive model validation 140 3.8 Surrogate modeling for dosimetry 142 3.9 SA and signature of the PC 150 3.10 Parsimonious quintile estimation 155 3.11 Conclusion 155 Conclusion 157 Bibliography 159 Index 179

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the media, beliefs, the news, the Internet, etc. but it should not be seen as yet another critique of the media system, exploring with indignant fascination the idea of a machination against truth set up to serve a society of domination. These kinds of theories, whether they pertain to conspiracy theories or, more subtly, to a self-styled "critical" way of thinking, have always seemed to be the expression of a form of intellectual puerility. This is not to say that attempts at manipulating opinions do not occur, or that our world is free from compromised principles, or indeed corruption; far from it, but none of this is the key issue. In fact, reality can somehow be even more unsettling than those myths, however sophisticated they may be, that envisage the media system hand-in-hand with industry, science, and so forth, all in agreement so as to lead the "people" away from the truth. It is more unsettling because the processes described in this book and that allow falsehood and dubiousness to take hold of the public sphere are boosted by the development of IT, the workings of our minds, and the very nature of democracy. And finally, it is more unsettling because we are all responsible for what is going to happen to us.Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction ix Chapter 1. More is Less: Mental Avarice and Mass Information 1 1.1. The revolution of the cognitive market 1 1.2. Amplification of the confirmation bias 6 1.3. The Seattle affair 9 1.3.1. The Wason experiment 10 1.4. The theorem of information credulity 14 1.5. Filter bubbles 17 Chapter 2. Why Does the Internet Side with Dubious Ideas? 19 2.1. The utopia of the knowledge society and the empire of beliefs 19 2.2. The ditherer’s problem 20 2.3. Competition between belief and knowledge on the Internet 23 2.4. Psychokinesis 27 2.5. The Loch Ness Monster 27 2.6. Aspartame 28 2.7. Crop circles 28 2.8. Astrology 29 2.9. Overview of resutls 30 2.10. How can we explain these results? 30 2.11. The Titanic syndrome 31 2.12. When Olson’s paradox plays against knowledge 34 2.13. Charles Fort, his life, and his works in a few words 36 2.14. Fort products: argumentative mille-feuilles 38 2.15. The sharing of the arguments of conviction 40 2.16. A Fortean product in the making: Michael Jackson’s fake death 42 2.17. When Fort reinforces Olson 44 2.18. Would you believe it! 46 2.19. It is all in the Bible, all of it 49 2.20. The transparency paradox 52 2.21. A shorter incubation period 56 Chapter 3. Competition Serves the Truth, Excessive Competition Harms It 61 3.1. Michael Jackson’s son, abused by Nicolas Sarkozy 61 3.2. A “prisoner’s dilemma” kind of situation 63 3.3. Presidential unfaithfulness and the burnt Koran 66 3.4. The IRC curve (information reliability/competition) 72 Chapter 4. What Can Be Done? From the Democracy of the Gullible to the Democracy of Enlightenment 77 4.1. The hope of the astrophysicist 77 4.2. The bad education 80 4.3. When gullibility looks like intelligence 83 4.4. The sum of imperfections 88 4.5. Toward cognitive demagogy 93 4.6. How to keep the illusion scholar inside us in check 96 4.7. Declaration of mental independence 98 4.8. The fourth power 102 4.9. A new form of scientific communication 104 4.10. A new militancy 106 Conclusion 109 Bibliography 111 Index 121

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when a radically-new fuel or technology transforms the energy system? How does the energy system evolve at different stages of economic development? What are the implications for people's lives and their environment? Building on an award-winning article, in this exciting book Roger Fouquet investigates the impacts of technological innovations and economic development over the last seven hundred years on our ability to provide heat, power, transport and light. Using a unique data set, collected over a decade, the analysis identifies the forces driving revolutions in energy services. It highlights the tendency of markets to produce ever-cheaper energy services, which in turn incite greater energy consumption. It also examines how these revolutions affect people's well-being and the environment. The framework, analysis and insights in this book offer an original perspective on future energy markets, transitions to low-carbon economies and strategies for addressing climate change.Heat, Power and Light is an invaluable and unique contribution to this profoundly important topic. As such it will appeal to a wide audience of energy economists, climate change analysts, policymakers, economic and technology historians and economists more broadly.Trade Review'This book presents a fascinating accumulation of economic "facts" relating to the demand for and the supply of heat, power and light. . .' -- Gay Wenban-Smith, International Energy Law Review'Fouquet undertakes a heroic effort to organize and present data on energy prices and usage since the 14th century. He then uses this data as the foundation for a narrative and analysis of changes in energy usage over the long run. . . the sifting and analysis of so many different sources to provide a coherent account will prove useful to those seeking an overview of this important topic, or for those seeking a point of entry to the study of more specific topics. Highly recommended.' -- J.L. Rosenbloom, Choice'This is an innovative and important book that stands at the intersection of energy analysis and environmental history. Fouquet's central theme is that we buy fuels, such as coal, oil or gas, only as a means to an end. That end is initially the provision of energy services, such as a warm house, hot showers, cold beers and driving around. . . Fouquet. . . traces the changes in our use. . . of energy services over the last seven centuries. . . The result has been an utter transformation in our lives. . . this book, with its copious tables and fascinating graphs, is an essential reference tool for both the energy analyst and the environmental historian.' -- Horace Herring, Environment and History'Fouquet has dug widely and deeply into English sources, publications, statistical reconstructions and the best available data sets. Having such long-run quantitative perspectives under one cover is both very useful and quite revealing. Having it analyzed in consistent terms (as changes in per capita use, prices, conversion efficiency and energy intensity) makes it, of course, even more valuable. . . Fouquet has produced an outstanding contribution to our long-run understanding of energy uses.' -- Vaclav Smil, EH.NetTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. The Past, Present and Future of Energy Services 2. Energy Demand, Technological Change and Economic Development 3. Historical Data and Methods Part II: The Past 4. Heating 5. Stationary Power 6. Transport 7. Lighting Part III: Analysis 8. Producing Cheaper Services 9. Consuming More Services 10. External Costs of Cheaper and More Energy Services 11. Policies Influencing the Trends in Energy Services Part IV: The Future 12. Future Trends in Energy Services 13. Policy Discussion Related to Long-Run Energy Services 14. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisInformation and communication technologies (ICT) are spreading fast across Latin American and the Caribbean. This trend has brought about important economic and social changes, which have largely gone unmeasured until recently. Here, analysts from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) along with other distinguished scholars in the field of ICT, growth and productivity provide theoretical and empirical insights to the debate on the role of ICT in economic development.This book is the fruit of the research ECLAC has amassed, with ten chapters detailing the great strides that have been made of late in ICT. A distinguishing feature of this book is its multi-disciplinary approach to measuring the economic effects of these technologies, which incorporates the neo-classical growth accounting approach and the evolutionary-structuralist approach. These approaches are noteworthy because, much like the primary message of ECLAC, they exemplify the pivotal importance of technical progress, productivity and structural transformation in economic growth. Innovation and Economic Development identifies several opportunities and challenges for bringing about a more dynamic role of ICT in the process of structural change and productivity growth and contends that accelerating the adoption and efficient use of ICT is essential to any strategy for further success.Policymakers, entrepreneurs, students and scholars of ICT, development and economics, and other social actors who have raised concerns about the contribution of ICT to economic growth and productivity in Latin America are sure to have their questions answered and their persectives broadened by this discerning work.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Alicia Bárcena Introduction and Synthesis Mario Cimoli, André A. Hofman and Nanno Mulder 1. Latin America and the World Economy Dale W. Jorgenson and Khuong Minh Vu 2. Technical Change and Economic Growth: Some Lessons from Secular Patterns and Some Conjectures on the Current Impact of ICT Carolina Castaldi and Giovanni Dosi 3. ICT and Productivity Growth in Europe: An Update and Comparison with the US Mary O’Mahony, Marcel Timmer and Bart van Ark 4. ICT Investment in Latin America: Does it Matter for Economic Growth? Gaaitzen J. De Vries, Nanno Mulder, Mariela Dal Borgo and André A. Hofman 5. Growth, Productivity and Information and Communications Technologies in Latin America, 1950–2005 Claudio Aravena, Marc Badia-Miró, André A. Hofman, Christian Hurtado and José Jofré González 6. The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Economic Growth in Latin America in Comparative Perspective Nauro F. Campos 7. ICT, Learning and Growth: An Evolutionary Perspective Mario Cimoli and Nelson Correa 8. ICT and Knowledge Complementarities: A Factor Analysis on Growth Marco Capasso and Nelson Correa 9. A Dynamic Input–Output Simulation Analysis of the Impact of ICT Diffusion in the Brazilian Economy Fabio Freitas, David Kupfer and Esther Dweck 10. The Relative Impact of the Regulatory Framework on the Diffusion of ICT: Evidence from Latin America, 1989–2004 Nauro F. Campos Index

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Book SynopsisWith an ever-growing number of users, the Internet is central to the processes of globalization, cultural formations, social encounters and economic development. These aside, it is also fast becoming an important political domain. Struggles over disclosure, access and governance are only the most visible signs that the Internet is quickly becoming a site of fierce political conflict involving states, technical groups, business and civil society. As the debate over the global politics of the Internet intensifies, this book will be a valuable guide to anyone seeking to understand the emergence, organization and shape of this new issue. In this vivid study, Mikkel Flyverbom captures how questions about the digital divide and the information revolution, dialogues with stakeholders, and networked forms of organization have become key features of the global politics of the Internet. Tracing the making and stabilization of this transnational issue in and around the United Nations over almost a decade, this book demonstrates how multi-stakeholder networks make new political domains accessible and unsettle established ways of organizing transnational governance. The Power of Networks offers a rich account of the practices and effects of organizing global politics and governance through dialogues and collaborations among governments, business and societies the world over. Offering a novel analytical vocabulary for the study of ordering, governance and organization in global politics, and its relationship to the growth of the Internet, this innovative ethnographic study of hybrid organizations and entangled forms of power in global politics shows how insights from actor-network theory and the Foucauldian governmentality literature can reinvigorate studies of transnational governance and organizational processes. It will appeal to anyone interested in emergent network issues in global politics, as well as practitioners and researchers focusing on multi-stakeholder processes, and students and scholars searching for a fresh perspective on organization, power and global politics.Trade Review‘Mikkel Flyverbom’s The Power of Networks provides a fascinating ethnographic study of how a UN-based, multistakeholder mode evolved and attempted to shape the global politics of the digital revolution. . . he discusses the subjects involved, the organizational techniques used, the efforts to shape the objects of ordering, and the rationales underlining the practices in the arrangement. His study is packed with insights and vivid first-hand observations from insiders at the forums. For readers who are curious about how the UN-based multi-stakeholder mode was formed, how it operates, and how it attempts to shape the digital revolution, The Power of Networks is an enlightening read which provides an abundance of related information.’ -- Yang Bai, International Journal of Communication‘Mikkel Flyverbom’s The Power of Networks is a timely and important contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary study of cyberspace politics. In an exceptionally well-written and researched book, Flyverbom employs a form of ethnographic method to uncover the grounded practices that inform the many “hybrid forums” and “entangled authorities” of Internet governance. The book will be of interest to those who want a deeper understanding of the complexity and nuance of the many social forces shaping global cyberspace today.’ -- Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto, Canada‘Flyverbom presents an original ethnography of the political ordering processes of the digital revolution. He lays bare the relational practices within hybrid global forums in which multiple actors are mobilized to participate, contest, and dialogue. The book makes an important contribution to emergent global politics governing technologies, networks, meanings, and people within the United Nations system.’ -- J.P. Singh, Georgetown University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Hybrid Networks and Political Domains 1. Governance and Organization as Ordering 2. Problematizing the Digital Revolution 3. Engaging Social Worlds as Stakeholders 4. Organizing Hybrid Forums 5. Shaping the Global Politics of the Digital Revolution 6. Displacement as Ordering Conclusion: The Power of Networks References Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book develops an evolutionary conception of growth in East Asia, in which technology, organizations and institutions interact and co-evolve to advance productivity. Episodic crises are seen as disruptions which bring to the fore structural and institutional flaws that need reform.The author begins with a thorough analysis of the neo-classical theory of technical change and shows that it fails to capture crucial aspects of the various learning processes involved. He goes on to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding technological progress. Productivity growth is seen as deriving from knowledge hard-coded in equipment and structures, and soft-coded in human skill, organizations and institutions that guide economic activity. The role of exports in promoting faster growth is also examined, as are the channels of technological capability acquisition. This book will be welcomed by academics, policymakers, students, government bodies and business people interested in East Asian growth and in understanding technological change in general.Trade Review'I think what the author is arguing is right on the money. He has written a fine book.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Aspects of the East Asian Puzzle: Miracle Growth and Crises 2. Sources and Measures of Growth 3. The Puzzle of TFP Growth in East Asia 4. Empirics of the Trade-Growth Nexus 5. East Asia in the Evolution of Development Thinking 6. What Drives Industrial Productivity? 7. The Acquisition of Technological Capability by Firms and Nations in East Asia 8. The East Asian Crises of 1997–8 9. East Asia and Development Policy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisScience and innovation plays an increasingly important role in the growth of economies throughout the world. This two volume collection of previously published articles seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of this key area of the global economy.The first volume presents important material on scientific knowledge, including property rights and reward structures to the productivity of scientists. In the second volume, the role of science in industry and the commercialization of science are discussed, together with an examination of the economic effects of R&D in terms of investment and gain, both for individual companies and national economies. The final section discusses whether public policies to control scientific growth are either necessary or desirable.Trade Review'The great virtue of such a collection is the opportunity it gives to re-read the classic papers in the subject, all of which I found more complex and more insightful than I had remembered them. It also shows that much more could be achieved if scholars in the field would read one another's contributions more critically and carefully.'Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: An Overview 1. Paula E. Stephan (1996), ‘The Economics of Science’ 2. Richard R. Nelson (1959), ‘The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research’ 3. Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Jr., ‘Science, Technology and the Western Miracle’ Part II: The Public Nature of Scientific Knowledge 4. Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), ‘Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention’ 5. Michel Callon (1994), ‘Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture’ 6. Partha Dasgupta and Paul A. David (1994), ‘Toward a New Economics of Science’ 7. Harry G. Johnson (1972), ‘Some Economic Aspects of Science’ Part III: The Production of Scientific Knowledge 8. Mary Frank Fox (1983), ‘Publication Productivity Among Scientists: A Critical Review’ 9. Diana Hicks (1995), ‘Published Papers, Tacit Competencies and Corporate Management of the Public/Private Character of Knowledge’ 10. Bernard Barber and Renée C. Fox (1962), ‘The Case of the Floppy-Eared Rabbits: An Instance of Serendipity Gained and Serendipity Lost’ Part IV: The Reward Structure of Science 11. Robert K. Merton (1957), ‘Priorities in Scientific Discovery: A Chapter in the Sociology of Science’ 12. Harriet Zuckerman (1992), ‘The Proliferation of Prizes: Nobel Complements and Nobel Surrogates in the Reward System of Science’ 13. Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. (1986), ‘What is a Citation Worth?’ 14. Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin (1992), ‘How Science is Done; Why Science is Done’ 15. Paula E. Stephan and Stephen S. Everhart (1998), ‘The Changing Rewards to Science: The Case of Biotechnology’ Part V: Characteristics of Discovery 16. Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin (1987), ‘The Simple Economics of Research Portfolios’ 17. Alfred J. Lotka (1926), ‘Statistics: The Frequency Distribution of Scientific Productivity’ 18. Robert K. Merton (1968), ‘The Matthew Effect in Science’ Part VI: Priority Rights and Property Rights 19. Partha Dasgupta and Paul A. David (1987), ‘Information Disclosure and the Economics of Science and Technology’ 20. Rebecca S. Eisenberg (1987), ‘Proprietary Rights and the Norms of Science in Biotechnology Research’ Part VII: Careers in Science 21. Paul D. Allison and John A. Stewart (1974), ‘Productivity Differences Among Scientists: Evidence for Accumulative Advantage’ 22. Sharon G. Levin and Paula E. Stephan (1991), ‘Research Productivity Over the Life Cycle: Evidence for Academic Scientists’ 23. Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. (1986), ‘The Life-Cycle Research Productivity of Mathematicians and Scientists’ 24. David L. Hull, Peter D. Tessner and Arthur M. Diamond (1978), ‘Planck’s Principle: Do Younger Scientists Accept New Scientific Ideas With Greater Alacrity Than Older Scientists?’ Name Index Volume II: Part I: Labor Markets for Scientists 1. Larry R. Leslie and Ronald L. Oaxaca (1993), ‘Scientist and Engineer Supply and Demand’ 2. Ronald G. Ehrenberg (1992), ‘The Flow of New Doctorates’ 3. R.B. Freeman (1975), ‘Supply and Salary Adjustments to the Changing Science Manpower Market: Physics, 1948-1973’ Part II: Scientists in Industry 4. Wesley M. Cohen and Daniel A. Levinthal (1989), ‘Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R&D’ 5. Edwin Mansfield (1995), ‘Academic Research Underlying Industrial Innovations: Sources, Characteristics, and Financing’ 6. Richard R. Nelson (1962), ‘The Link Between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor’ 7. Nathan Rosenberg (1990), ‘Why Do Firms Do Basic Research (With Their Own Money)?’ 8. Frank R. Lichtenberg (1988), ‘The Private R&D Investment Response to Federal Design and Technical Competitions’ Part III: The Commercialization of Science 9. David B. Audretsch and Paula E. Stephan (1996), ‘Company-Scientist Locational Links: The Case of Biotechnology’ 10. Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby and Marilynn B. Brewer (1998), ‘Intellectual Human Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises’ 11. Edwin Mansfield (1991), ‘Academic Research and Industrial Innovation’ 12. Keith Pavitt (1991), ‘What Makes Basic Research Economically Useful?’ Part IV: The Relationship Between Science and Technology 13. Nathan Rosenberg (1974), ‘Science, Invention and Economic Growth’ 14. F.M. Scherer (1982), ‘Demand-Pull and Technological Invention: Schmookler Revisted’ 15. Michael Gibbons and Ron Johnston (1974), ‘The Roles of Science in Technological Innovation’ Part V: Science and Growth 16. Paul M. Romer (1994), ‘The Origins of Endogenous Growth’ Part VI: Knowledge Spillovers 17. Zvi Griliches (1992), ‘The Search for R&D Spillovers’ 18. Adam B. Jaffe (1989), ‘Real Effects of Academic Research’ 19. David B. Audretsch and Maryann P. Feldman (1996), ‘R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production’ 20. Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch and Maryann P. Feldman (1994), ‘R&D Spillovers and Recipient Firm Size’ 21. Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby and Jeff Armstrong (1998), ‘Geographically Localized Knowledge: Spillovers or Markets?’ Part VII: Public Policy 22. Richard R. Nelson and Paul M. Romer (1996), ‘Science, Economic Growth, and Public Policy’ 23. Henry Ergas (1987), ‘Does Technology Policy Matter?’ 24. Nathan Rosenberg (1994), ‘Critical Issues in Science Policy Research’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a definitive collection of Keith Pavitt's seminal articles in the analysis of technology and innovation. He presents realistic, empirical accounts of the economic impact of technological change on firms, emphasising the cognitive dimensions of technical change. The theme throughout is that technological knowledge remains largely tacit, and the transformation of advances in knowledge is complex, uncertain and requires continuous learning.The book explores the appropriate location of innovative activities, the size structure of innovating firms, the implications of technological trajectories for corporate strategies and organization, the influence of national systems of innovation on corporate behaviour and the usefulness of publicly funded research. The conclusions drawn challenge established theories, policies and practices.Technology, Management and Systems of Innovation will prove invaluable to students and scholars of both the economics and management of evolutionary technical change.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Technological Knowledge Part II: Management Part III: Systems of Innovation Index

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Book SynopsisThe end of the twentieth century saw an explosive intrusion of intellectual property law into everyday life. Expansive copyright laws have been used to attack new forms of sharing and remixing facilitated by the Internet. International laws extending the patent rights of pharmaceutical companies have threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries.Recently, a multitude of groups around the world have emerged to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counterpolitics of access to knowledge or A2K. They include software programmers who take to the streets to attack software patents, AIDS activists who fight for generic medicines in poor countries, subsistence farmers who defend their right to food security and seeds, and college students who have created a new free culture movement to defend the digital commons.In this volume, Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski have created the first anthology of the A2K movement, mapping this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. Intellectual property law has become not only a site of new forms of transnational activism, but also a locus for profound new debates and struggles over politics, economics, and freedom. This collection vividly brings these debates into view and makes the terms of intellectual property law legible in their political implications around the world.

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