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Book SynopsisGray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food insecurity, agricultural labour, livestock welfare, genetically modified foods, food sustainability, food waste, food policy, and food democracy, they problematize current food systems and criticize their underlying ideologies.Trade Review"An excellent wide-ranging contribution to the field of criminology and green criminology in particular." Tanya Wyatt, University of NorthumbriaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Section I: Thinking about food crime; A food crime perspective ~ Allison Gray; Food crime without criminals: Agri-good-safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest ~ Martha McMahon, Kora Liegh Glatt; The social construction of illegality within local food systems ~ Marcello de Rosa, Ferro Trabalzi, Tiziana Pagnani; Section II: Farming and food production; Ethical challenges facing farm managers ~ Harvey S. James Jr.; Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour, and the state ~ Ronald Hinch; Impact of hazards and pesticides on farmers and farming communities ~ Jinky Leilanie del Prado-Lu; Section III: Processing, marketing, and accessing food; Agency and responsibility: The case of the food industry and obesity ~ Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Robert Phillips; The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration ~ Louise Manning, Jan Mei Soon; Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment ~ Sugandi del Canto, Rachel Engler-Stringer; Section IV: Corporate food and food safety; Regulating food fraud: Public and private law responses in the EU, Italy and the Netherlands ~ Antonia Corini, Bernd van der Meulen; Mass salmonella poisoning by the Peanut Corporation of America: Lessons in state-corporate food crime ~ Paul Leighton; Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism ~ Joseph Yaw Asomah, Hongming Cheng; Section V: Food trade and movement; Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals: A closer look at Ontario’s ‘pig trial’ ~ Amy Fitzgerald, Wesley Tourangeau; Coming together to combat food fraud: Regulatory networks in the EU ~ Richard Hyde, Ashley Savage; Fair trade laws, labels, and ethics ~ Will Low, Eileen Davenport; Section VI: Technologies and food; Food, genetics and knowledge politics ~ Reece Walters; Technology, novel foods and crime ~ Juanjuan Sun, Xiaocen Liu; Food crimes, harms, and carnist technologies ~ Linnea Laestadius, Jan Deckers, Stephanie Baran; Section VII: Green food; Farming and climate change ~ Rob White, Jasmine Yeates; Food waste (non)regulation ~ Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch; Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programs in Brazil and Canada ~ Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca, Ricardo César Barbosa Júnior; Section VIII: Questioning and consuming food; Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens remaking the food system ~ Sue Booth, John Coveney, Dominique Paturel; Consumer reactions to food safety scandals: A research model and moderating effects ~ Camilla Barbarossa; Resisting food crime and the problem of the ‘food police’ ~ Allison Gray.

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Book SynopsisFree as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success.

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Book SynopsisIndia and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes to analyses of globalization within the fields of anthropology, sociology, law, and public health by drawing on interviews and ethnographic work with pharmaceutical producers in India and the United States.India has been at the center of emerging controversies around patent rights related to pharmaceutical production and local medical knowledge. Halliburton shows that Big Pharma is not all-powerful, and that local activists and practitioners of ayurveda, India's largest indigenous medical system, have been able to undermine the aspirations of multinational companies and the WTO. Halliburton traces how key drug prices have gone down, not up, in low-income countries under the neTrade ReviewHalliburton ably describes the arcana of patent law while at the same time keeping his sights on the daunting, critical stakes of the issue: the continued accessibility of therapeutic know ledge for global public health. For this achievement, India and the Patent Wars is a crucial read for anyone interested in the global politics of health. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisA favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annual consumption of cigarettes. At the forefront is the China National Tobacco Corporation, now producing forty percent of cigarettes sold globally. What's enabled the manufacturing of cigarettes in China to flourish since the time of Mao and to prosper even amidst public health condemnation of smoking? In Poisonous Pandas, an interdisciplinary group of scholars comes together to tell that story. They offer novel portraits of people within the Chinese polity—government leaders, scientists, tax officials, artists, museum curators, and soldiers—who have experimentally revamped the country's pre-Communist cigarette supply chain and fitfully expanded its political, economic, and cultural influence. These portraits cut against the grain of what contemporary tobacco-control experts typically study, opening a vital new window on tobacco—the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide today. Trade Review"Poisonous Pandas is a stupendous and long overdue achievement. From the Communist Base areas in the 30s and 40s, through the Great Leap, the early reform period and into the present, we learn how the cigarette in China has been developed, represented in advertising and popular culture, gendered and sexed, mythologized and celebrated, argued and fought over. Here, cigarettes become agents of capital and enormous profit, ubiquitous in nearly all aspects of life, and ultimately monstrous. This painstaking unmasking of one of the world's greatest death machines sets a new bar for the study of health regimes and afflicted bodies, for the very study of life and death, in China and beyond."—Ralph Litzinger, Duke University"This important volume documents the historical and cultural foundations of the world's most massive epidemic: the devastating impact of cigarette smoking in China today. Focusing on cigarette production and consumption over the last century, the authors and editors show how deeply embedded tobacco is in the most basic economic and cultural structures of contemporary China, and how difficult it will be to excise this State-run industry and its addictive, deadly product. Nonetheless, they offer opportunities and hope for stemming this global tragedy."—Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University, author, The Cigarette Century"This book is a tour de force—delivering insights on how the world's largest tobacco corporation has emerged, provocations for reimagining public health interventions, and a scholarly platform for future research."—Hu Dayi, Director, Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, Former President, Chinese Society of Cardiology"This is a factually detailed, erudite, and imperative historical record of tobacco in China, compiled by experts in the field from both inside and outside China. It is at times technical, and at other times personal, poignant and philosophical. It does not mince its words as it looks both backwards and forwards in time."—Dr Judith Mackay, Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies/Bloomberg Initiative, Director, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control"Poisonous Pandas does a brilliant job of untangling the nightmare of cigarette manufacturing in China—for the first time, readers see clearly how the industry was built, and how much damage it continues to do to the world's most populous nation."—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, author, River Town and Oracle Bones"Part cultural and social history of tobacco in China and part backdrop to the urgent health crisis it has caused, this is a terrific collaboration exploring the social, cultural, political, and fiscal arrangements of one of the most deadly products in one of the world's most populous nations. It is the most definitive and comprehensive study of China's tobacco problem to date."—Vincanne Adams, Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco"[T]he authors of this groundbreaking volume have produced a wide-ranging and highly readable collection of papers on the political economy of Chinese cigarette manufacturing over the past 100 years...Kohrman and co-authors take a more critical approach to understanding why the Chinese Government has historically elevated this deadly product to unprecedented heights."––Kelley Lee, The Lancet

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Book SynopsisA favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annual consumption of cigarettes. At the forefront is the China National Tobacco Corporation, now producing forty percent of cigarettes sold globally. What's enabled the manufacturing of cigarettes in China to flourish since the time of Mao and to prosper even amidst public health condemnation of smoking? In Poisonous Pandas, an interdisciplinary group of scholars comes together to tell that story. They offer novel portraits of people within the Chinese polity—government leaders, scientists, tax officials, artists, museum curators, and soldiers—who have experimentally revamped the country's pre-Communist cigarette supply chain and fitfully expanded its political, economic, and cultural influence. These portraits cut against the grain of what contemporary tobacco-control experts typically study, opening a vital new window on tobacco—the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide today. Trade Review"Poisonous Pandas is a stupendous and long overdue achievement. From the Communist Base areas in the 30s and 40s, through the Great Leap, the early reform period and into the present, we learn how the cigarette in China has been developed, represented in advertising and popular culture, gendered and sexed, mythologized and celebrated, argued and fought over. Here, cigarettes become agents of capital and enormous profit, ubiquitous in nearly all aspects of life, and ultimately monstrous. This painstaking unmasking of one of the world's greatest death machines sets a new bar for the study of health regimes and afflicted bodies, for the very study of life and death, in China and beyond."—Ralph Litzinger, Duke University"This important volume documents the historical and cultural foundations of the world's most massive epidemic: the devastating impact of cigarette smoking in China today. Focusing on cigarette production and consumption over the last century, the authors and editors show how deeply embedded tobacco is in the most basic economic and cultural structures of contemporary China, and how difficult it will be to excise this State-run industry and its addictive, deadly product. Nonetheless, they offer opportunities and hope for stemming this global tragedy."—Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University, author, The Cigarette Century"This book is a tour de force—delivering insights on how the world's largest tobacco corporation has emerged, provocations for reimagining public health interventions, and a scholarly platform for future research."—Hu Dayi, Director, Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, Former President, Chinese Society of Cardiology"This is a factually detailed, erudite, and imperative historical record of tobacco in China, compiled by experts in the field from both inside and outside China. It is at times technical, and at other times personal, poignant and philosophical. It does not mince its words as it looks both backwards and forwards in time."—Dr Judith Mackay, Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies/Bloomberg Initiative, Director, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control"Poisonous Pandas does a brilliant job of untangling the nightmare of cigarette manufacturing in China—for the first time, readers see clearly how the industry was built, and how much damage it continues to do to the world's most populous nation."—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, author, River Town and Oracle Bones"Part cultural and social history of tobacco in China and part backdrop to the urgent health crisis it has caused, this is a terrific collaboration exploring the social, cultural, political, and fiscal arrangements of one of the most deadly products in one of the world's most populous nations. It is the most definitive and comprehensive study of China's tobacco problem to date."—Vincanne Adams, Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco"[T]he authors of this groundbreaking volume have produced a wide-ranging and highly readable collection of papers on the political economy of Chinese cigarette manufacturing over the past 100 years...Kohrman and co-authors take a more critical approach to understanding why the Chinese Government has historically elevated this deadly product to unprecedented heights."––Kelley Lee, The Lancet

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Book SynopsisThe biomedical industry, which includes biopharmaceuticals, genomics and stem cell therapies, and medical devices, is among the fastest growing worldwide. While it has been an economic development target of many national governments, Asia is currently on track to reach the epicenter of this growth. What accounts for the rapid and sustained economic growth of biomedicals in Asia? To answer this question, Kathryn Ibata-Arens integrates global and national data with original fieldwork to present a conceptual framework that considers how national governments have managed key factors, like innovative capacity, government policy, and firm-level strategies. Taking China, India, Japan, and Singapore in turn, she compares each country's underlying competitive advantages. What emerges is an argument that countries pursuing networked technonationalism (NTN) effectively upgrade their capacity for innovation and encourage entrepreneurial activity in targeted industries. In contrast to countries that engage in classic technonationalism—like Japan's developmental state approach—networked technonationalists are global minded to outside markets, while remaining nationalistic within the domestic economy. By bringing together aggregate data at the global and national level with original fieldwork and drawing on rich cases, Ibata-Arens telegraphs implications for innovation policy and entrepreneurship strategy in Asia—and beyond.Trade Review"Kathryn Ibata-Arens, who has excelled in her work on the development of technology in Japan, has here extended her research to consider the development of techno-nationalism in other Asian countries as well: China, Singapore, Japan, and India. She finds that these countries now pursue techno-nationalism by linking up with international developments to keep up with the latest technology in the United States and elsewhere. The book is a creative and original analysis of the changing nature of techno-nationalism." -- Ezra F. Vogel * Harvard University *"Ibata-Arens examines how tacit knowledge enables technology development and how business, academic, and kinship networks foster knowledge creation and transfer. The empirically rich cases treat "networked technonationalist" biotech strategies with Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and Singaporean characteristics. Essential reading for industry analysts of global bio-pharma and political economists seeking an alternative to tropes of economic liberalism and statist mercantilism." -- Kenneth A. Oye, Professor of Political Science and Data, Systems, and Society * Massachusetts Institute of Technology *"In Beyond Technonationalism, Ibata-Arens encourages us to look beyond the Asian developmental state model, noting how the model is increasingly unsuited for first-order innovation in the biomedical sector. She situates state policies and strategies in the technonationalist framework and argues that while all economies are technonationalist to some degree, in China, India, Singapore and Japan, the processes by which the innovation-driven state has emerged differ in important ways. Beyond Technonationalism is comparative analysis at its best. That it examines some of the world's most important economies makes it a timely and important read." -- Joseph Wong, Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation Munk School of Global Affairs * University of Toronto *"Kathryn Ibata-Arens masterfully weaves a comparative story of how ambitious states in Asia are promoting their bio-tech industry by cleverly linking domestic efforts with global forces. Empirically rich and analytically insightful, she reveals by creatively eschewing liberalism and selectively using nationalism, states are both promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in their bio-medical industry and meeting social, health, and economic challenges as well." -- Anthony P. D'Costa, Eminent Scholar in Global Studies and Professor of Economics, University of Alabama * Huntsville *"Beyond Technonationalism provides a much-needed global and comparative perspective to understand Asia's foray into the biomedical industry....[An] excellent guide to the field of innovation studies, science and technology policy, and the global history of biotechnology." -- Doogab Yi * Journal of Asian Studies *"Beyond Technonationalism proposes a bold new conceptual framework of networked technonationalism. Leveraging her incisive insights and wellresearched data, IbataArens delves into the policies and economic backgrounds of Japan, China, India, and Singapore....[A] muchneeded update to the politicaleconomic view of national development and innovative entrepreneurship that are increasingly relevant is an increasingly turbulent world." -- Robert Eberhart * Political Science Quarterly *"Ibata-Arens has offered an insightful work that develops greater understanding of the rise in diversity of national innovation policies. It is an important perspective from which to view the shifts that will occur as the power balance in innovation moves to more points around the globe." -- Gerald Hane * The Developing Economies *"Ibata-Arens' book is theoretically novel. Her framework, networked technonationalism, extends existing notions of technonationalism in previously unimagined ways....[A] necessary read for students and scholars desiring to understand better how public policy can spur economic development and national innovation in today's dynamic global landscape." -- Eric Dahlin * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThe book discusses the importance of global competition in biomedical and new-technology sectors to understanding international trade and investment in the twenty-first century. It argues that countries that pursue networked technonationalism (NTN) have been the most effective in improving innovation capacity and fostering frontier-industry growth. Technonationalism is state-led strategic investment in new technologies, perceived as key to national security. From the most closed system (Japan's classic technonationalism) to the most open, or technoglobal system (Singapore) technationalism exists on a continuum. A typology of knowledge and network regimes is proposed to explain variations in domestic capacities, institutions, and policy and network practices. Comparisons of human capital development (STEM education), knowledge production (scientific citations and patents), institutions supporting innovation (technology licensing organizations, incubators), and interfirm networks and international openness (inward foreign direct investment, engaging with diaspora, and immigration) elucidate distinctions. 2Theory and Methods chapter abstractThis chapter develops a matrix that plots variations in open/tacit versus closed/codified system architectures supporting or limiting innovation capacity and new-business creation in targeted sectors. Aggregate global- and microlevel data are analyzed to identify concentrations of innovation and firm-level activity. Emerging hubs of knowledge and firm creation in biomedical industries, including biopharmaceuticals, are identified. Aggregate data is supplemented with firm-level case studies and interviews with entrepreneurs, government officials, incubation managers, and investors. The conceptual framework outlined in Chapter 1 and specified in Chapter 2 provides the lens through which innovation and entrepreneurship strategies in China, India, Japan, and Singapore are viewed. The analysis is supplemented with firm-level entrepreneurial case studies. 3Classic Technonationalism in Japan chapter abstractJapan's strengths in intellectual property production have since the 1990s failed to translate into globally competitive new-product and new-business creation. Insular institutions and business practices have created "sticky" networks. These structures, while protecting weak industries from global competition, have trapped nascent entrepreneurs and undermined human-capital development. Yet Japan remains the largest market for biomedical products and services in Asia. Its aging population is driving ever-increasing health care consumption, while the shrinking size of its working population means that growth must be based on productivity gains. These demographics provide opportunities for foreign firms and investors to enter Japan, potentially enriching Japanese networks in the future. The Japanese state has encouraged international science and technology collaborations since 2000, which has led to growth in international copatenting, a potential first step to broader internationalization and open networks. 4New Networked Technonationalism in China chapter abstractFeatures of China's networked technonationalism (NTN) include aggressive science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and entrepreneurship policies. Further, the biomedical industry has been identified by political and economic leaders as a "strategic emerging industry" and has become a focal point of state-led economic development. In contrast to Japan's insular and closed ("sticky") domestic knowledge and business networks, since the 1970s China's expatriate and diaspora returnee communities and active inward FDI have contributed to evolving globally competitive business networks. Over time, China used its growing domestic market as a lure to foreign firms from which technology appropriation can occur. However, China's population size and urban-rural disparities mean that egalitarian redistribution of new wealth has not been guaranteed in this system. Further, introduction of Western chemical pharmaceuticals threaten traditional medicine and therapies. 5From Closed to Open in India chapter abstractDecades ago, led by the technonational rhetoric of self-reliance and improvement in human health, India delayed opening its market. Consequently, India spent decades on import substitution and other exclusionary policies in a classic technonational system architecture like Japan. Later, India invested in generic-drug research and development and production capacity, complemented by advances in information technology. State-led human-capital development—for example, in the semi-independent Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs)—targeted initially information technology and more recently has focused on biomedicine. Expatriate and diaspora returnee networks of Indian professionals, via its networked technonational architecture, since the 1990s have contributed to the development of innovative capacity and new ventures, but at a slower pace than in China. 6Singapore chapter abstractSingapore's developmental model had to be based within its multiethnic Chinese, Indian, and Malay population and from its very inception was global in outlook. Its meritocratic Economic Development Board (EDB) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) tied inward FDI to domestic human-capital development and redistribution of internationally derived wealth to its domestic population. Its "guppies to whales" human-capital development programs contributed to productivity gains through attracting the region's best and brightest STEM youth and offering them citizenship. While the Singaporean city-state's small population has proven an impediment to establishing a critical mass of new technology entrepreneurs, open immigration policies have the potential to fast-track future developments. However, indigenous Singaporeans have been displaced in this process. 7Conclusion chapter abstractChapter 7 summarizes the key findings of the book, reflecting on the framework of networked technonationalism and the conceptual typology of knowledge and networks. It compares variations in networked technonationalism as measured by variation in the knowledge and network architecture and governance regimes in China, India, Japan, and Singapore. The book concludes with theory and policy implications of networked technonationalism for Asia and the world economy.

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Book SynopsisThe global electronics industry is one of the most innovation-driven and technology-intensive sectors in the contemporary world economy. From semiconductors to end products, complex transnational production and value-generating activities have integrated diverse macro-regions and national economies worldwide into the "interconnected worlds" of global electronics. This book argues that the current era of interconnected worlds started in the early 1990s when electronics production moved from systems dominated by lead firms in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan towards increasingly globalized and cross-macro-regional electronics manufacturing centered in East Asia. By the 2010s, this co-evolution of production network complexity transformed global electronics, through which lead firms from South Korea, Taiwan, and China integrated East Asia into the interconnected worlds of electronics production across the globe. Drawing on literature on the electronics industry, new empirical material comprising custom datasets, and extensive personal interviews, this book examines through a "network" approach the co-evolution of globalized electronics production centered in East Asia across different national economies and sub-national regions. With comprehensive analysis up to 2021, Yeung analyzes the geographical configurations ("where"), organizational strategies ("how"), and causal drivers ("why") of global production networks, setting a definitive benchmark into the dynamic transformations in global electronics and other globalized industries. The book will serve as a crucial resource for academic and policy research, offering a conceptual, empirically driven grounding in the theory of these networks that has become highly influential across the social sciences.Trade Review"Henry Wai-chung Yeung provides a comprehensive and fascinating analysis of the decisive role of global production networks in driving the shift of global electronics industry to East Asia in the early 21st century. The book features rich and detailed firm level data, an excellent resource for both teaching and research. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the dominance of East Asia in the industry."—Yuqing Xing, Professor of Economics, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies"Henry Wai-chung Yeung's highly original and insightful book provides us understanding of a deeper and wider form of global production integration than that of global value chains. These are interconnected worlds of global production. The interdependencies that he captures shed light on new possibilities for global development, but also deep challenges and risks for global development policy, as well as global business."—Michael Storper, Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics; Distinguished Professor of Regional and International Development, UCLA"From startling revelations about the centrality of semiconductors in modern manufacturing to current debates on deglobalization, decoupling and the reshoring of global supply chains, the electronics industry has moved to center stage in public awareness. Interconnected Worlds could not be more timely in unpacking the regional roots of global electronics and bridging academic, firm strategy and policy domains."—Gary Gereffi, Emeritus Professor and Director of the Global Value Chains Center at Duke University, Durham, NC"This book is Yeung's remarkable update on his long-time study on electronic industry in Asia and the globe, comprising semi-conductors, cell phones, PCs and displays. It reflects his intellectual journey from his early focus on inter-national political economy to a new network approach on inter-firm and intra-firm production activities across national boundaries. It is timely and extremely helpful to understand the nature of the disruptions in global value chains since the US-China trade conflicts and the Covid-19, and also to derive effective responses to them."—Keun Lee, Distinguished Professor, Seoul National University; winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize"Yeung [has] made a significant contribution to our understanding of how the globe's most important technology-based industries are evolving."—Robert Huggins and Andrew Johnston, Eurasian Geography and Economics"[Interconnected Worlds] offers an empirical, grounded study that will inform research on the reconfiguration of global electronics production networks in the decades to follow... No doubt it will represent a 'benchmark for assessing changes in the early 2020s and beyond'."—Chun Yang, Regional Studies"Interconnected Worlds makes an excellent contribution to explaining the evolution of electronics GPNs by the integration of companies in East Asian [sic] or, alternatively, by tracking the shift of electornics GPNs to East Asia. It is a thorough and exhaustive piece of work and easily the most complete analysis of the electronics sector in East Asia and its integration with electronics GPNs."—Seamus Grimes, Economic GeographyTable of Contents1. Worlds of Electronics: From National Innovations to Global Production 2. Changing Fortunes in Global Electronics: A Brief History 3. Global Production Networks: A Theory of Interconnected Worlds 4. Geographical Configurations of Global Electronics Centered in East Asia 5. Firm Strategies and Organizational Innovations in Production Networks 6. Explaining Production Networks: Causal Drivers and Competitive Dynamics 7. Whither (De-)Globalized Electronics Production in the 2020s? Current Trajectories and Future Agendas

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Book SynopsisFashion is under the spotlight like never before. Activists call for environmental accountability, and wide-ranging debates highlight exploitation across global supply chains and the reliance on unpaid labour. Digital technology undermines traditional fashion companies, while small-scale independent fashion designers provide radical innovations in design and work in more socially inclusive ways. This book contributes to a new sociology of fashion. Focusing on the working lives of independent designers and based on ethnographic research and interviews carried out in London, Berlin and Milan, the authors consider the urban policy regimes in place in these cities. They analyse how these regimes shape the microenterprises and the emerging political economy, as well as the structures needed for designers to flourish. They also develop several key concepts – the ‘milieu of fashion labour’, ‘social fashion’ and ‘fashion diversity’ – and chart the new world of digital fashion-tech and e-commerce. Drawing on lessons from European initiatives and recognizing the capacity of microenterprises and start-ups to determine fashion’s future, the authors call for the industry to be significantly decentralized to ensure more diversity and less exclusivity.Trade Review"Fashion as Creative Economy is a brilliant, multilayered work that offers an unparalleled theoretical synthesis of the fashion industry. It makes effective recommendations for how this system can be transformed and made more just."Jo Littler, City, University of London "This book is an important addition to both the scholarly literature and the public debates over the future of the fashion industry."David O’Brien, University of Sheffield

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Book SynopsisShould you buy organic food? Is it just a status symbol, or is it really better for us? Is it really better for the environment? What about organic produce grown thousands of miles from our kitchens, or on massive corporately owned farms? Is “local” or “small-scale” better, even if it’s not organic? A lot of consumers who would like to do the right thing for their health and the environment are asking such questions.Sapna Thottathil calls on us to rethink the politics of organic food by focusing on what it means for the people who grow and sell it—what it means for their health, the health of their environment, and also their economic and political well-being. Taking readers to the state of Kerala in southern India, she shows us a place where the so-called “Green Revolution” program of hybrid seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and rising pesticide use had failed to reduce hunger while it caused a cascade of economic, medical, and environmental problems. Farmers burdened with huge debts from buying the new seeds and chemicals were committing suicide in troubling numbers. Farm labourers suffered from pesticide poisoning and rising rates of birth defects. A sharp fall in biodiversity worried environmental activists, and everyone was anxious about declining yields of key export crops like black pepper and coffee.In their debates about how to solve these problems, farmers, environmentalists, and policymakers drew on Kerala’s history of and continuing commitment to grassroots democracy. In 2010, they took the unprecedented step of enacting a policy that requires all Kerala growers to farm organically by 2020. How this policy came to be and its immediate economic, political, and physical effects on the state’s residents offer lessons for everyone interested in agriculture, the environment, and what to eat for dinner. Kerala’s example shows that when done right, this kind of agriculture can be good for everyone in our global food system.

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Book SynopsisThis brand new volume in the ASM Handbook series has been developed to address the current and rapidly expanding importance of additive manufacturing (AM). ASM Handbook, Volume 24: Additive Manufacturing Processes provides the latest knowledge in materials, processes, and applications of AM, written by the leading experts in research and industry.It begins with an introduction and history of AM, authored by some of the key participants in that history as they trace the evolution of AM. The complete suite of materials and processes for polymers and ceramics are described in detail in the next two divisions. A division on metal AM processes begins with an in-depth description of the production and characterization of metal powders, which has a big effect on the success or failure of metal AM processes. The book describes AM processing of a wide variety of materials, illustrating differences in characteristics of metal alloys produced by AM processes in contrast to conventional processes. Volume 24 also covers direct-write processes, which take advantage of AM processes to combine materials and devices for multifunctional engineering applications.

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Book SynopsisSteel companies were at the birth of the modern business corporation. The first billion dollar corporation ever formed was U.S. Steel in 1901. By the mid-twentieth century the steel mill and the automobile plant were the two pillars upon which the twentieth century industrial economy rested.Given the scale of capital and operations, vertical integration was seen to be pivotal, from the raw materials of iron ore and coal on one end of the supply chain to the myriad of finished products on the other. By the end of the twentieth century, however, things had dramatically changed.Take a look inside for a brilliant and concise history of the steel industry. The author presents a comprehensive account of the economics of the industry, with an overview of how the industry operates and the environment in which it operates. This book includes a detailed discussion of the regulation of the industry; a documentation of the reasons why a rejuvenated steel industry will be critical to the economic health of the modern economy; and a rationale for the reemergence of the steel industry in particular, and manufacturing in general, as a vital force in the North American economy of the new millennium.It is widely perceived that the United States is moving from an industrial age into an information age, driven by high technology. That image for steel is now being reversed. The steel industry has continuously been forced to remake itself, and this book describes those developments and dynamics. Information technology is pervasive across the industry and ecological improvement is steel intensive.

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Book SynopsisThis book integrates a science and business approach to provide an introduction and an insider view of intellectual property issues within the biotech industry, with case studies and examples from developing economy markets. Broad in scope, this book covers key principles in pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural biotechnology within four parts. Part 1 details the principles of intellectual property and biotechnology. Part 2 covers plant biotechnology, including biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, GM foods in sustainable agriculture, microbial biodiversity and bioprospecting for improving crop health and productivity, and production and regulatory requirements of biopesticides and biofertilizers. The third part describes recent advances in industrial biotechnology, such as DNA patenting, and commercial viability of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in genome editing. The final part describes intellectual property issues in drug discovery and development of personalized medicine, and vaccines in biodefence. This book is an ideal resource for all postgraduates and researchers working in any branch of biotechnology that requires an overview of the recent developments of intellectual property frameworks in the biotech sector.Table of ContentsPart 1: Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Issues 1: Biotechnology in Agriculture, Medicine and Industry: An Overview 2: Biotechnology and its Development in Developing Countries: Can IPR’s Foster Innovation in the Field? 3: Patent Eligibility Issues in Life Science Innovations: Contentious Court Cases 4: Checks and Balances in Biotechnology Related Patents: In Agreement to the Indian Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005 5: Intellectual Property in Biotechnology Sector. The Importance of “Star Scientists” in the Entrepreneurship and Universities Environment Part 2: Intellectual Property Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology 6: Intellectual Property in Agricultural Biotechnology: From Patent Thickets to Generics 7: Bioprospecting for Improving Soil Health and Crop Productivity: Indian Patent Landscape 8: Seeds of Change: Genetically Modified Crops, Canada’s Agricultural Growth Act and the Erosion of Farmers’ Privilege 9: Recent Innovations in Agricultural Biotechnology: Challenging the Status Quo 10: Chinese Innovation System: The Case of Agricultural Knowledge Sharing 11: IPR Regime for Agricultural Biotechnology in India Part 3: Intellectual Property Issues in Industrial Biotechnology 12: DNA Patenting 13: The Development of Patentability of Genetic Patent in Mainland China and Taiwan 14: Bioprospecting Microbial Diversity: IPR Issues 15: CRISPR/Cas9 system, A Revolutionary Technology for Genome Editing: Applications and IP Disputes Part 4: Intellectual Property Issues in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 16: Healthcare Innovation, Personalization, and the Patent System: Where is the Public Interest? 17: Patentability of Human Embryo Stem Cell: A Comparative Analyse of Case WARF in United States and Europe 18: Innovation and Intellectual Property Issues in the “Decade of Vaccines”: a Brazilian Perspective 19: Promoting Access To Health Care Through Biosimilars: Addressing Intellectual Property Rights And Regulatory Barriers 20: Changing Paradigm for IPR Protection in Drug Discovery Research: Where India Stands 21: Intellectual Property Rights in Drug Development and Biotechnology 22: Leishmaniasis: Drug Development and IP Issues

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Book SynopsisFood safety and hygiene is of critical importance to us all, yet, as periodic food crises in various countries each year show, we are all dependent on others in business and public regulation to ensure that the food we consume in the retailing and hospitality sectors is safe. Bridget Hutter considers the understandings of risk and regulation held by those in business and considers the compliance pressures on managers and owners, and how these relate to understandings of risk and uncertainty. Using data from an in-depth case study of the food retail and catering sectors in the UK, the research investigates how business risk management practices are influenced by external pressures such as state regulation, consumers, insurance and the media and by pressures within business. The argument of the book is that food businesses in the UK are generally motivated to manage risk. They realize that good risk management aligns with good business practice. However, there are challenges for an industry that is highly segmented in terms of risk management capacity. The findings have implications for contemporary risk regulation in the increasingly number of countries that rely on self-regulation. Managing Food Safety and Hygiene will prove invaluable for academic researchers and students in risk regulation studies, business studies, food studies, organizational studies, social psychology, socio-legal studies, sociology, management, public administration and political science. In addition, the book will also appeal to practitioners specifically to senior policy makers, regulators and business risk managers charged with managing risk in diverse organizational settings, and across different functional jurisdictions. Contents: Preface Introduction: Setting the Scene 1. Risk Regulation and Business Part I: The Food Retail and Hospitality Industry and Risk 2. The Food Retail and Hospitality Industry in the UK: A Research Approach 3. The Food Industry and Risk: Official Data and Workplace Understandings Part II: Risk Regulation 4. State Governance of Food Safety and Food Hygiene: The Regulatory Regime and the Views of those in the Food Sector 5. Risk Regulation Beyond the State: Research Responses about Non-State Regulatory Influences 6. Business Risk Regulation: Inside the Business Organization Part III: Conclusions and Policy Implications 7. Conclusions and Policy Implications Appendix 1: Profile of Phase 2 Respondents Appendix 2: Phase 2 Questionnaires Appendix 3: Phase 3 Interview ScheduleTrade ReviewOne of the most thorough and considered studies we have of the relationship between regulation and business risk management practices. Food regulation provides a revealing canvas for understanding the dynamics of the governance of risk. --John Braithwaite, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Setting the Scene 1. Risk Regulation and Business Organizations Part I: The Food Retail and Hospitality Industry and Risk 2. The Food Retail and Hospitality Industry in the UK: A Research Approach 3. The Food Industry and Risk: Official Data and Workplace Understandings Part II: Risk Regulation 4. State Governance of Food Safety and Food Hygiene: The Regulatory Regime and the Views of Those in the Food Sector 5. Risk Regulation Beyond the State: Research Responses about Non-State Regulatory Influences 6. Business Risk Regulation: Inside the Business Organization Part III: Conclusions and Policy Implications 7. Conclusions: Why Manage Risk? What Can We Learn and Improve? Appendix 1: Profile of Phase 2 Respondents Appendix 2: Phase 2 Questionnaires Appendix 3: Phase 3 Interview Schedule Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'This book represents a major contribution to our thinking about modern manufacturing industries - and is not just timely, it is long overdue! The authors have done an outstanding job in bringing to bear a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives on a domain which all too often suffers from rather narrow disciplinary analyses. Ranging from engineering to social science and drawing on examples from the US, Europe and Asia, the book provides not only a wealth of fact and illustration but a rich landscape to inform those charged with industrial policy and manufacturing strategies.'- From the foreword by Sir Mike Gregory, University of Cambridge, UKThe Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy provides a critical and multi-disciplinary state-of-the-art review and analysis of current manufacturing processes, practices and policies. Expanding our knowledge and understanding of production and innovation, this volume demonstrates that manufacturing continues to matter in the world economy.The contributors, including scholars ranging from engineering to policy to economic geography, cover manufacturing policy and the revival of the industrial base in the US, UK and Canada, and engage national and regional strategies for implementing advanced manufacturing policies. Questions of economic resilience in the wake of the recent recession are asked, and industry and firm case studies are utilised in an international comparative context. Applying a wide range of international cases from the US, EU, Australia and Asia, this approach allows readers to view transformations in production systems and processes across sectors, technologies and industries.Students, scholars and policymakers in the fields of public policy, economic geography, city and regional planning, and business and management will find this collection invaluable in understanding how firms and industries adapt, through dynamic and design-driven strategies, to produce for established and emerging markets.Contributors: M.A. Brown, J.R. Bryson, S. Christopherson, J. Clark, M. Cowell, M. Doussard, D.M. Drake, C.G. Drury, A. Dugenske, M. Feldman, P.L. Forrester, C. Gibson, P.V. Hall, Y. Hansen, C. Harris, P. Jalette, R.V. Kalafsky, W.C. Kessler, G. Kim, D.F. Kogler, L. Lanahan, F. Livesey, N.J. Lowe, L. McCormick, R. Mulhall, S. Ock Park, P. Pavlínek, J. Provo, M. Ronayne, G. Schrock, C.D.Treado, V. Vanchan, S. Walcott, B. Wang, M. Ward, A. Warren, S. Weller, L. Winther, L. Wolf-PowersTrade ReviewIn Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy, editors Bryson, Clark, and Vanchan offer up a welcome addition to the manufacturing literature replete with valuable contributions from immensely competent researchers . . . The strengths of the Handbook are immediately apparent, and include the fact that contributions are provided by seasoned scholars, active scholars in mid-career, and budding scholars alike. The editors have thus ensured that the Handbook is well grounded while remaining topically fresh.'- Economic GeographyTable of ContentsContents: PART I: INTRODUCTION Manufacturing Matters: Space, Place, Time and Production Jennifer Clark, John R. Bryson and Vida Vanchan PART II: (PROCESSES) BUILDING BLOCKS: FACTOR INPUTS AND PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION 1. Manufacturing Management in Theory and Practice Paul L. Forrester 2. Manufacturing and Labor Sally Weller 3. How Does Financialization Affect Manufacturing Investment? Preliminary Evidence from the US and UK Susan Christopherson 4. Manufacturing Logistics Peter V. Hall 5. Reshoring and the ‘Manufacturing Moment’ Margaret Cowell and John Provo 6. Relocation of Production Activities and Underlying Social Dynamics: An Analytical Framework based on a Canadian Perspective Patrice Jalette 7. Tool-less Manufacture: Digital Fabrication, 3D Printing and the Third Industrial Revolution Michael Ward 8. Engineering and Manufacturing: Concurrent Maturation of xRL Ben Wang, William C. Kessler and Andrew Dugenske 9. Energy and Manufacturing: Technology and Policy Transformations and Challenges Marilyn A. Brown and Gyungwon Kim 10. Design and Manufacturing: The Competitiveness of American, European and Chinese Industrial Design Companies Vida Vanchan and John R. Bryson 11. Intellectual Property and Patents: Knowledge Creation and Diffusion Dieter F. Kogler PART III: INDUSTRY AND FIRM CASE STUDIES 12. Manufacturing Textile Futures: Innovation, Adaptation and the UK Textiles Industry Megan Ronayne 13. Finding a Future for the US Furniture Industry Susan Walcott 14. New Geographies of Advanced Manufacturing: The Case of Machine Tools Ronald V. Kalafsky 15. Farm Machinery: A Changing Path to Feed the World Dawn M. Drake 16. Hidden in Plain Sight: The North American Optics and Photonics Industry Jennifer Clark 17. Traditional and Emerging Markets in the Global Steel Supply Chain Carey Durkin Treado 18. Intermediate Manufacturing: Profit, Dependency and Value Attainment in Supply Chains Rachel Mulhall 19. Aerospace Manufacturing: Past, Present and Future Colin G. Drury 20. Manufacturing Stoke: Emergence, Transformation and Consolidation in the Surfboard Industry Andrew Warren and Chris Gibson 21. Migrant Manufacturing: Translocal Production and the Establishment of a Polish Bakery in Birmingham, UK Catherine Harris 22. Skoda Auto: The Transformation from a Domestic to a Tier Two Lead Firm Petr Pavlínek 23. Samsung: Restructuring, Innovation, and Global Networks Sam Ock Park PART IV: POLICY NARRATIVES IN MANUFACTURING 24. Stability Amid Industrial Change: The Geography of U.S. Deindustrialization since 1980 Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 25. Searching for Advanced Manufacturing in the United Kingdom and United States: Definitions, Measurement and Public Policy Finbarr Livesey 26. National Manufacturing Policy, Local Real Estate Markets, and the Missing Region: Prospects for Urban Industrial Development in the US Laura Wolf-Powers 27. The City and Industry: Deurbanizing Manufacturing in New York City? Lynn McCormick 28. Manufacturing in the Knowledge Economy: Innovation in Low-tech Industries Teis Hansen and Lars Winther 29. Crafting a Comeback: Cultivating an Innovative Ecosystem in Mature Regions Maryann Feldman and Lauren Lanahan 30. From Skill Mismatch to Reinterpretation: Challenges and Solutions for Manufacturing Worker Retention and Recruitment Nichola J. Lowe PART V: CONCLUSION Regeneration Economies: Manufacturing as the Next Industrial Revolution Jennifer Clark, John R. Bryson and Vida Vanchan Index

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Book SynopsisThis book describes a number of different empirical studies and evaluations of the international brewery industry. This industry has recently undergone two climactic changes within a ten to fifteen year time period. These are a significant industry-wide consolidation of firms and market shares accompanied by the internationalization of what was previously a largely local industry. Understanding the drivers and implications of such abrupt and massive change in the competitive environment of an industry is of great interest to international and strategic management scholars. Most of the book's chapters address this issue, some at the global industry level, some at a regional level, and some at the level of a specific country. Taken together, they comprise an insightful case study of an interesting industry at its most interesting point in time.'- William G. Egelhoff, Fordham University, US'The individual contributions in this volume paint a varied and rich picture of strategies and rivalries, the role of environments and institutions, leadership and also customer approaches in both global and local brewery industry. Some of the analysed phenomena are more standard to an IB audience, like consolidation, technological development, and shifts in global markets, but they get a specific flavor and color through this industry focus, while other topics definitely seem more specific (like 'Bierstrasse' on Mallorca). For readers with good taste.'- Rian Drogendijk, Uppsala University, SwedenThis unique book explores some of the key topics of international business through the context of a global industry, focusing on the challenges brewery companies face as they operate in globalized markets. It examines the strategies of individual firms to develop markets and explores new insights into recent company rivalries, both globally and locally. In addition, it offers detailed analysis of some of the major players in the industry through longitudinal studies.Drawing on a range of perspectives, the contributing authors explore six overarching themes: international market developments and firm performance; host country institutional effects; multi-point competition and rivalries; cross-border M&A integration and subsidiary development; leadership and internationalization; and boundless customer interfaces through such elements as social media and tourism.The Global Brewery Industry will prove insightful for scholars across international business, as well as providing an appealing case study for advanced students. It will be invaluable to those investigating the brewery sector specifically, or working with brewing firms.Contributors: M. Andersson, C. Dörrenbächer, J. Gammelgaard, M. Geppert, M. Gilles, M.W. Hansen, B. Hobdari, A.K. Hoenen, G. Hollinshead, K. Jakobsen, A. Kokko, A. Kuusik, J. Larimo, L. Lund-Thomsen, M. Maclean, E.S. Madsen, A.M. Munar, K. Pedersen, N. Pogrebnyakov, C. Ruhe, J. Smith, S. Takeshita, I.M. Taplin, S. Troll, U. Varblane, C. Williams, A. ZabyTrade Review‘This book describes a number of different empirical studies and evaluations of the international brewery industry. This industry has recently undergone two climactic changes within a ten to fifteen year time period. These are a significant industry-wide consolidation of firms and market shares accompanied by the internationalization of what was previously a largely local industry. Understanding the drivers and implications of such abrupt and massive change in the competitive environment of an industry is of great interest to international and strategic management scholars. Most of the book’s chapters address this issue, some at the global industry level, some at a regional level, and some at the level of a specific country. Taken together, they comprise an insightful case study of an interesting industry at its most interesting point in time.’ -- William G. Egelhoff, Fordham University, US‘The individual contributions in this volume paint a varied and rich picture of strategies and rivalries, the role of environments and institutions, leadership and also customer approaches in both global and local brewery industry. Some of the analysed phenomena are more standard to an IB audience, like consolidation, technological development, and shifts in global markets, but they get a specific flavor and color through this industry focus, while other topics definitely seem more specific (like “Bierstrasse” on Mallorca). For readers with good taste.’ -- Rian Drogendijk, Uppsala University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Peter J. Buckley Introduction Jens Gammelgaard and Christoph Dörrenbächer PART I: INTERNATIONAL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND FIRM PERFORMANCE 1. How Mergers and Acquisitions Restructured the International Brewery Industry 2000–2010 – and Why Kurt Pedersen, Erik S. Madsen and Lars Lund-Thomsen 2. Market Leadership, Firm Performance and Consolidation in the Central and Eastern European Brewing Sector Kristian Jakobsen PART II: HOST COUNTRY INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS 3. Reaching Distant Parts? The Internationalization of Brewing and Local Organizational Embeddedness Graham Hollinshead and Mairi Maclean 4. Market Integration and Transportation: Beer in Lao PDR Magnus Andersson and Ari Kokko PART III: MULTI-POINT COMPETITION AND RIVALRIES 5. The Estonian Beer Market: The Battle for Market Leadership Jorma Larimo, Andres Kuusik and Urmas Varblane 6. Carlsberg in India: Entry Strategy in Global Oligopolistic Industries Anne K. Hoenen and Michael W. Hansen PART IV: CROSS-BORDER M&A INTEGRATION AND SUBSIDIARY DEVELOPMENT 7. Subsidiary Strategic Responsibilities and Autonomy in Carlsberg Jens Gammelgaard and Bersant Hobdari 8. Post-acquisition Resource Redeployment and Synergy Creation: The Case of Heineken’s Large Acquisitions Scottish & Newcastle and FEMSA Christoph Dörrenbächer and Andreas Zaby PART V: LEADERSHIP AND INTERNATIONALIZATION 9. Leadership and Preparedness to Internationalize in the Brewing Industry: The Case of Asahi Breweries of Japan Christopher Williams, Seijiro Takeshita, Mélanie Gilles, Carolin Ruhe, Janne Smith and Svenja Troll 10. The Demise of Anheuser-Busch: Arrogance, Hubris and Strategic Weakness in the Face of Intense Internationalization Ian M. Taplin, Jens Gammelgaard, Christoph Dörrenbächer and Mike Geppert PART VI: BOUNDLESS CUSTOMER INTERFACES: SOCIAL MEDIA AND TOURISM 11. The Use of Social Media in the Beer Brewing Industry Nicolai Pogrebnyakov 12. Sun, Alcohol and Sex: Enacting Beer Tourism Ana María Munar Index

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Book SynopsisRapid advances in the life sciences means that there is now a far more detailed understanding of biological systems on the cellular, molecular and genetic levels. Sited at the intersection between the life sciences, the engineering sciences and the design sciences, innovations in the biomaterials industry are expected to garner increasing attention and play a key role in future development. This book examines the biomaterials innovations taking place in corporations and in academic research settings today.Biomaterials Innovation offers a comprehensive overview of life science innovation and presents empirical research in the field of biomaterials innovation. Alexander Styhre examines innovation management practices in the field of biomaterials development and explains institutional changes in the biomaterials industry. The demand for accomplishing biocompatibility between the human body and the materials developed is highlighted, as is the relationship between financial markets and biomaterials companies. Finally, the author discusses the therapeutic, regulatory and managerial implications of biomaterials innovation.Biomaterials Innovation will be required reading for any researcher, policy-maker or student interested in innovation management, the life sciences and the development of health care therapies.Contents: 1. Life and Materiality, Nature and Artifice: Transgressing the Divide 2. Bios, Materiality, and Biomateriality 3. Innovation Management and Innovation in the Life Sciences 4. Shifting Institutional Logics in Biomaterial Companies 5. The Epistemology of Biomaterials: How Biomaterials Become Embodied 6. Financing Biomaterials Innovation: Selling Science in Venture Capital Markets 7. Biomaterials Innovation: Re-creating the Human Body Appendix: Methodology of the Studies Bibliography IndexTable of ContentsContents: 1. Life and Materiality, Nature and Artifice: Transgressing the Divide 2. Bios, Materiality, and Biomateriality 3. Innovation Management and Innovation in the Life Sciences 4. Shifting Institutional Logics in Biomaterial Companies 5. The Epistemology of Biomaterials: How Biomaterials Become Embodied 6. Financing Biomaterials Innovation: Selling Science in Venture Capital Markets 7. Biomaterials Innovation: Re-creating the Human Body Appendix: Methodology of the Studies Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBoosting Pharmaceutical Innovation In The Post-TRIPS Era investigates the concept of innovation and illustrates the crucial role that patent strategies play within processes of pharmaceutical innovation. Drawing on extensive country and company case studies, it identifies the key issues relevant to the revival of local pharmaceutical industries.Based on an understanding of the post-TRIPS environment and case studies of national innovation strategies, the book specifically addresses an important question - to what extent can lessons from national experiences be transferred to current policy developments for innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a developing country context? The book sets out a number of recommendations on how this can be achieved. It suggests that it can be done in relation to the key development objectives of promoting the technological and scientific advancement of the country, enhancing local pharmaceutical innovation capacities, adapting patent law to own local realities, providing wide access to medicines and knowledge, safeguarding public health interests, and fostering innovation.Practitioners and policy planners within the pharmaceutical industry will deem this book invaluable as it addresses a number of practical implications for the promotion of the pharmaceutical industry. It will also be of enormous interest to students, researchers and academics specializing in intellectual property law and policy, science and technology, and the management of technology and innovation.Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Innovation 3. Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry 4. Looking at the Big Picture: National Innovation System 5. Innovation Country Case Studies 6. A Real Life Company Case Study; TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and its Distinctive Trajectories 7. Real life lessons for the developing world Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘Overall, the book is very readable and well written, and it is clearly an interesting addition to the existing literature on pharmaceutical innovation in developing world.’ -- European Intellectual Property ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Innovation 3. Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry 4. Looking at the Big Picture: National Innovation System 5. Innovation Country Case Studies 6. A Real Life Company Case Study; TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and its Distinctive Trajectories 7. Real life lessons for the developing world Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last two decades one of the great global emerging technological trends has been the shift from chemistry to biology in agriculture. Bitterly contested and enduringly controversial, the shift to biotechnology has nevertheless led to greater sustainability and promises even greater gains in years to come. This Handbook is an invaluable compendium of detailed case study and insight.'- Mark Lynas, Cornell University, US'This important volume analyses the current state of crop biotechnology development and regulation. It establishes a firm basis for understanding the current level of deployment of crops modified by biotechnology and also the uneven and often unscientific bases that have been used to judge their merits for particular regions. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone concerned with the development of this vital area of agriculture.'- Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden, US'With interest in biotechnology surging, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the potential that advancements in modern agriculture have to offer, how they've already changed agriculture around the world and what s coming down the pipeline. Agriculture is about economics, the environment and feeding the world; so too, at the heart of it, is biotechnology, as this book so clearly demonstrates. The authors have years of experience with biotechnology and their expertise shines through on each page.'- Lorne Hepworth, CropLife CanadaThis book is a compendium of knowledge, experience and insight on agriculture, biotechnology and development. Beginning with an account of GM crop adoptions and attitudes towards them, the book assesses numerous crucial processes, concluding with detailed insights into GM products. Drawing on expert perspectives of leading authors from 57 different institutions in 16 countries, it provides a unique, global overview of agbiotech following 20 years of adoption. Many consider GM crops the most rapid agricultural innovation adopted in the history of agriculture. This book provides insights as to why the adoption has occurred globally at such a rapid rate.This is a rich and varied collection of research, which will appeal to scholars, academics and practitioners worldwide. An invaluable resource, this book will be a first point of reference to anyone with an interest in agbiotech and studies into agriculture, biotechnology and development.Contributors: A.A. Adenle, P. Aerni, C. Alexander, J.M. Alston, V. Beckmann, J. Bognar, C.G. Borroto, D. Brewin, G. Brookes, J. Carpenter, Y. Carrière, D. Castle, M. Chen, P. Conceição, B. Dayananda, M. Demont, K. Dillen, D. Eaton, E. Einsiedel, J. Falck-Zepeda, J. Fernandez-Cornejo, G.B. Frisvold, C.V. Gonslaves, D. Gonsalves, M. Gouse, G. Graff, R. Gray, A. Gupta, W.O. Hennessey, J.E. Hobbs, W.E. Huffman, L. A. Jackson, C. Juma, N. Kalaitzandonakes, S. Kaplan, V.J. Karplus, W.A. Kerr, G.G. Khachatourians, E.M. Kikulwe, E. Kim, D.E. Kolady, S.P. Kowalski, J. Kruse, L. Levidow, S. Levine, K. Ludlow, X. Ma, A. Magnier, S. Malla, I. Matuschke, J.J. McCluskey, A. McHughen, J. Medlock, D. Miller, L. Nagarajan, A. Naseem, C. Oguamanam, M. Ouattarra, M. Owen, R. Paarlberg, P. W. B. Phillips, M. Qaim, T. Raney, J.M. Reeves, S.D. Rhodes, S.M.H. Rizvi, C.D. Ryan, D. Schimmelpfennig, G.J. Scoles, G. Skogstad, S. J. Smyth, C. Soregaroli, D.J. Spielman, A.J. Stein, J. Thomson, J. Vitale, G. Vognan, G. Waterfield, S. Wechsler, J. Wesseler, A. Williams, W.W. Wilson, L.L. Wolfenbarger, G. Ye, J. Yorobe Jr, D.Z. Zeng, D. ZilbermanTrade Review'This is a timely assessment of the current and possible future status of GMOs, with useful observations on what has been learned along the way and how this knowledge might be applied. Well edited and produced.' -- L. C. Devis, Kansas State University, Choice‘This Handbook covers a contentious topic, so the approach of the editors is refreshing, especially their transparent introduction as to how they organized their work. A key theme is evidence. I have been involved in agro-biotechnology for 25 years, mainly at the international level; I know that evidence is what matters. This is a comprehensive coverage of many aspects of agro-biotechnology but it is easy to navigate through the chapters and follow any number of issues of interest.’ -- – Peter Kearns, OECD, Paris‘This Handbook is a tour de force, providing fascinating insights and nourishments for the mind that will shape views and visions. The rich interplay between science and society, between agriculture and development, comprehensively addressed in this Handbook is a must-read for anyone wishing to make a meaningful contribution to global development.’ -- Anatole Krattiger, Cornell University, US‘Over the last two decades one of the great global emerging technological trends has been the shift from chemistry to biology in agriculture. Bitterly contested and enduringly controversial, the shift to biotechnology has nevertheless led to greater sustainability and promises even greater gains in years to come. This Handbook is an invaluable compendium of detailed case study and insight.’Table of ContentsContents: Editor’s Introduction: Conceptual Framing of the IAD framework and Methods, Models and Metrics 1. Introduction to Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle PART I: EXOGENOUS VARIABLES: THE ENVIRONMENT, ACTORS AND RULES 2. Global Adoption of GM Crops, 1995–2010 Graham Brookes 3. Structure of Public Research Richard Gray and Buwani Dayananda 4. The Private Sector: MNEs and SMEs Jill E. Hobbs 5. Biotechnology in North America: The United States, Canada and Mexico Julia Bognar and Grace Skogstad 6. South American Adopters: Argentina and Brazil Sybil D. Rhodes 7. Africa Jennifer Thomson 8. China Valerie J. Karplus 9. Agricultural Biotechnology in India: Impacts and Controversies Matin Qaim 10. Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, Japan and The Philippines Karinne Ludlow and Jose Yorobe Jr. 11. European Union Policy Conflicts over Agbiotech: Ecological Modernisation Perspectives and Critiques Les Levidow 12. Africa Non-adopters Robert Paarlberg 13. Non-adopters of GM Crops in Latin American Jose Falck-Zepeda 14. The Cuban Context for Agriculture and Innovation Carlos G. Borroto 15. Risk Assessment Frameworks in the Multilateral Setting Lee Ann Jackson 16. The Trade System and Biotechnology William A. Kerr 17. Developing Countries and the Legal Institutions at the Intersection of Agbiotech and Development Chidi Oguamanam 18. Consumer Attitudes and Preferences for GM Products Stuart J. Smyth and David Castle 19. The Motivation and Impact of Organized Public Resistance Against Agricultural Biotechnology Philip Aerni PART II: ACTION ARENAS 20. The Research Pipeline Peter W.B. Phillips 21. Clusters, Innovation Systems and Biotechnology in Developing Country Agriculture David J. Spielman, Douglas Zhihua Zeng and Xingliang Ma 22. Practice Driving Policy: Agbiotech Transfer as Capacity Building William O. Hennessey, Aarushi Gupta and Stanley P. Kowalski 23. The North American Crop Biotech Environment, Actors and Rules David Schimmelpfennig 24. Adoption Decisions Corinne Alexander 25. Co-existence Volker Beckmann, Claudio Soregaroli and Justus Wesseler 26. Biotechnology and the Inputs Industry Anwar Naseem and Latha Nagarajan 27. Market Power in the US Biotech Industry Alexandre Magnier, Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes and Douglas Miller 28. The Dynamic IP System in Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Derek Eaton and Greg Graff 29. Environment Effects LaReesa Wolfenbarger, Yves Carrière and Micheal Owen 30. Labelling of Genetically Modified Foods Wallace E. Huffman and Jill J. McCluskey 31. Biotechnology and Food Security Calestous Juma, Pedro Conceição and Sebastian Levine 32. International Regimes on Plant Intellectual Property Rights and Plant Genetic Resources: Implications for Stakeholders Deepthi Elizabeth Kolady 33. Engaging Publics on Agbiotech: A Retrospective Look Jennifer Medlock and Edna Einsiedel 34. Lessons from the California GM Labelling Proposition on the State of Crop Biotechnology David Zilberman, Scott Kaplan, Eunice Kim and Gina Waterfield 35. Biotechnology Communications, Mythmaking and the Media Camille D. Ryan PART III: OUTCOMES 36. Soybeans Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo and Seth Wechsler 37. Maize/Corn Janet Carpenter, Marnus Gouse and Jose Yorobe Jr. 38. GM Cotton Jeffrey Vitale, Gaspard Vognan and Marc Ouattarra 39. Canola Derek Brewin and Stavroula Malla 40. The Hawaiian Papaya Story Carol V. Gonsalves and Dennis Gonsalves 41. Sugar Beet Koen Dillen and Matty Demont 42. Rice Matty Demont, Mao Chen, Gongyin Ye and Alexander J. Stein 43. Aggregate Effects: Adopters and Non-adopters, Investors and Consumers George B. Frisvold and Jeanne M. Reeves 44. Economic Success but Political Failure? The Paradox of GM Crops in Developing Countries Terri Raney, Ademola A. Adenle and Ira Matuschke 45. The Size and Distribution of the Benefits from the Adoption of Biotech Soybean Varieties Julian M. Alston, Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes and John Kruse 46. Wheat: Status, Outlook and Implications William W. Wilson 47. Small Grains: Barley, Oat and Rye Syed Masood H. Rizvi and Graham J. Scoles 48. Incremental Benefits of Genetically Modified Bananas in Uganda Enoch M. Kikulwe, Jose Falck-Zepeda and Justus Wesseler 49. Biofuels and GM Feedstocks Alphanso Williams and William A. Kerr 50. Non-food GM Crops: Phytoremediation, Industrial Products and Pharmaceuticals George G. Khachatourians 51. Tomatoes, Potatoes and Flax: Exploring the Cost of Lost Innovations Camille D. Ryan and Alan McHughen

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Book SynopsisA very powerful, well-researched and thoughtful argument in support of the ecological versus the economic way of thinking and acting. Paul Nieuwenhuis is no 'Fachidiot' but sees clearly the bigger picture. His book takes you on a fascinating journey through the worlds of philosophy and ecology to an in-depth understanding of the evolution of car manufacturing, its past and future. A fascinating read even for a 'tree-hugger' and public transportation fan like me.'- Georgios Kostakos, Independent Consultant on global challenges and sustainability, governance and UN affairsIf we are part of nature, then so is everything we make. This unique book explores this notion using the example of the car, how it is made and used and especially how we relate to it, with a view to creating a more sustainable automobility.We have been trying to make cars cleaner and more efficient, but has this really made them more sustainable? This book argues, within the context of sustainable consumption and production, that we should see the car as a natural system, subject to natural laws and processes. As part of this new perspective we need to change our attitude to cars, building more durable relationships and co-evolving with them. Revolutionary, perhaps; but if we get it right, this approach will allow us to enjoy motoring - albeit in modified form - into the future. The book draws on a range of disciplines, including industrial ecology, engineering, philosophy, anthropology, consumer psychology and object-oriented ontology, as well as providing industry examples to support its innovative case.This ground-breaking book will be of interest to academics of sustainability, socio-technical transition, management of change, engineering, biomimicry and business. It will also be of interest to automotive consultancies and those working in the car and oil industries. Paul Nieuwenhuis' innovative suggestions will certainly be of interest to government workers in industry, business and the environment, as well as various environmental NGOs.Contents: 1. Introduction - A Natural History of the Car 2. The Problem with Cars is… 3. What is Sustainability and what is Sustainable? 4. The History of the Car and the History of Car Production 5. A Changing Industry 6. Regulating the Car to Save our Environment; Emptying the Ashtrays on the Titanic? 7. Supply Chains…, or Loops, Tiers, Webs, or Flows? 8. Freedom to Tinker: The True Ownership Model 9. Consumers: SCP and Sustainable Car Use; Learning to Love your Car 10. How Does Change Happen? 11. The Ecological Model of Business 12. Automotive Evolution - the Car of the Future; a Future for the Car? 13. The Automotive Industry; an Ecosystem Perspective 14. Making the Transition; Ecodiversity at the Sector Level; Industry as Ecosystem 15. Concluding Remarks ReferencesTrade Review‘A very powerful, well-researched and thoughtful argument in support of the ecological versus the economic way of thinking and acting. Paul Nieuwenhuis is no “Fachidiot” but sees clearly the bigger picture. His book takes you on a fascinating journey through the worlds of philosophy and ecology to an in-depth understanding of the evolution of car manufacturing, its past and future. A fascinating read even for a “tree-hugger” and public transportation fan like me.’ -- Georgios Kostakos, Independent Consultant on global challenges and sustainability, governance and UN affairsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction – A Natural History of the Car 2. The Problem with Cars is… 3. What is Sustainability and what is Sustainable? 4. The History of the Car and the History of Car Production 5. A Changing Industry 6. Regulating the Car to Save our Environment; Emptying the Ashtrays on the Titanic? 7. Supply Chains…, or Loops, Tiers, Webs, or Flows? 8. Freedom to Tinker: The True Ownership Model 9. Consumers: SCP and Sustainable Car Use; Learning to Love your Car 10. How Does Change Happen? 11. The Ecological Model of Business 12. Automotive Evolution – the Car of the Future; a Future for the Car? 13. The Automotive Industry; an Ecosystem Perspective 14. Making the Transition; Ecodiversity at the Sector Level; Industry as Ecosystem 15. Concluding Remarks References

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Book SynopsisA very powerful, well-researched and thoughtful argument in support of the ecological versus the economic way of thinking and acting. Paul Nieuwenhuis is no 'Fachidiot' but sees clearly the bigger picture. His book takes you on a fascinating journey through the worlds of philosophy and ecology to an in-depth understanding of the evolution of car manufacturing, its past and future. A fascinating read even for a 'tree-hugger' and public transportation fan like me.'- Georgios Kostakos, Independent Consultant on global challenges and sustainability, governance and UN affairsIf we are part of nature, then so is everything we make. This unique book explores this notion using the example of the car, how it is made and used and especially how we relate to it, with a view to creating a more sustainable automobility.We have been trying to make cars cleaner and more efficient, but has this really made them more sustainable? This book argues, within the context of sustainable consumption and production, that we should see the car as a natural system, subject to natural laws and processes. As part of this new perspective we need to change our attitude to cars, building more durable relationships and co-evolving with them. Revolutionary, perhaps; but if we get it right, this approach will allow us to enjoy motoring - albeit in modified form - into the future. The book draws on a range of disciplines, including industrial ecology, engineering, philosophy, anthropology, consumer psychology and object-oriented ontology, as well as providing industry examples to support its innovative case.This ground-breaking book will be of interest to academics of sustainability, socio-technical transition, management of change, engineering, biomimicry and business. It will also be of interest to automotive consultancies and those working in the car and oil industries. Paul Nieuwenhuis' innovative suggestions will certainly be of interest to government workers in industry, business and the environment, as well as various environmental NGOs.Contents: 1. Introduction - A Natural History of the Car 2. The Problem with Cars is… 3. What is Sustainability and what is Sustainable? 4. The History of the Car and the History of Car Production 5. A Changing Industry 6. Regulating the Car to Save our Environment; Emptying the Ashtrays on the Titanic? 7. Supply Chains…, or Loops, Tiers, Webs, or Flows? 8. Freedom to Tinker: The True Ownership Model 9. Consumers: SCP and Sustainable Car Use; Learning to Love your Car 10. How Does Change Happen? 11. The Ecological Model of Business 12. Automotive Evolution - the Car of the Future; a Future for the Car? 13. The Automotive Industry; an Ecosystem Perspective 14. Making the Transition; Ecodiversity at the Sector Level; Industry as Ecosystem 15. Concluding Remarks ReferencesTrade Review‘A very powerful, well-researched and thoughtful argument in support of the ecological versus the economic way of thinking and acting. Paul Nieuwenhuis is no “Fachidiot” but sees clearly the bigger picture. His book takes you on a fascinating journey through the worlds of philosophy and ecology to an in-depth understanding of the evolution of car manufacturing, its past and future. A fascinating read even for a “tree-hugger” and public transportation fan like me.’ -- Georgios Kostakos, Independent Consultant on global challenges and sustainability, governance and UN affairsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction – A Natural History of the Car 2. The Problem with Cars is… 3. What is Sustainability and what is Sustainable? 4. The History of the Car and the History of Car Production 5. A Changing Industry 6. Regulating the Car to Save our Environment; Emptying the Ashtrays on the Titanic? 7. Supply Chains…, or Loops, Tiers, Webs, or Flows? 8. Freedom to Tinker: The True Ownership Model 9. Consumers: SCP and Sustainable Car Use; Learning to Love your Car 10. How Does Change Happen? 11. The Ecological Model of Business 12. Automotive Evolution – the Car of the Future; a Future for the Car? 13. The Automotive Industry; an Ecosystem Perspective 14. Making the Transition; Ecodiversity at the Sector Level; Industry as Ecosystem 15. Concluding Remarks References

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Book SynopsisRegulating Health Foods is likely to be of much interest to food researchers and regulators, as well as to many members of the public. The focus on regulation and policy for health foods (functional food, supplements and nutraceuticals) is highly topical. The different regulatory policies for health foods that apply in a number of high income and emerging nations are outlined and compared. Using concepts from social sciences (economics in particular), implications of these different approaches for both consumers and businesses are identified and discussed. The book should be a very useful addition to the literature on health foods.'- Michele Veeman, University of Alberta, Canada'The supply of foods marketed as healthy and functional is guided by both consumer demand and regulatory regimes. While many texts have attempted to document such drivers over the past decade or so, this volume provides a refreshing, concise yet comprehensive catalogue that includes trends in developed and emerging markets for health foods. Well resourced, including an annotated bibliography of many of the supporting studies summarized in the text, this book provides a good starting point for any researcher interested in understanding potential policy challenges and consumer conundrums.'- Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University, US'Regulating Health Foods systematically organizes the widely disparate definitions, regulations and policies used internationally to govern functional foods, supplements and nutraceuticals, doing so from the standpoint of the industry and its regulators. Food scientists, regulators and industry professionals will especially appreciate its detailed international perspective.'- Marion Nestle, New York University, USWith ageing populations, rising incomes and a growing recognition of the link between diet and health, consumers are interested in new food products, supplements and ingredients with purported health benefits. The food industry has responded with new food innovations, formulations and enhancements that comprise the growing health food market, manifesting the need to design regulatory frameworks to govern valid health claims.Regulating Health Foods provides an assessment of the regulatory environment governing the health food sector in key developed markets, including the US, the EU, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as significant emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea. It examines the different definitions of 'health food', product approval processes and health claims regulation in these markets. Against this backdrop, the book also offers insight into the nature of the health food sector in selected countries and examines the drivers of consumer demand for foods offering health benefits.This book is informative and accessible for students interested in food and nutrition policy, food economics, as well as socio-economic issues surrounding food and health. Academics and policymakers interested in food policy and regulation will benefit from the detailed analysis of the regulatory systems in a number of countries, and a comprehensive overview of key literature summarizing consumer attitudes toward health foods and health claims.Contents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. What are 'Health Foods'? 3. Evolving Policy Issues and Regulatory Frameworks 4. Health Claim Regulations in Developed Markets 5. Health Claim Regulations in Emerging Markets 6. Industry and Market Trends 7. Consumer Responses to Health Foods 8. Through the Looking glass References IndexTrade Review‘Regulating Health Foods is likely to be of much interest to food researchers and regulators, as well as to many members of the public. The focus on regulation and policy for health foods (functional food, supplements and nutraceuticals) is highly topical. The different regulatory policies for health foods that apply in a number of high income and emerging nations are outlined and compared. Using concepts from social sciences (economics in particular), implications of these different approaches for both consumers and businesses are identified and discussed. The book should be a very useful addition to the literature on health foods.’ -- Michele Veeman, University of Alberta, Canada‘The supply of foods marketed as healthy and functional is guided by both consumer demand and regulatory regimes. While many texts have attempted to document such drivers over the past decade or so, this volume provides a refreshing, concise yet comprehensive catalogue that includes trends in developed and emerging markets for health foods. Well resourced, including an annotated bibliography of many of the supporting studies summarized in the text, this book provides a good starting point for any researcher interested in understanding potential policy challenges and consumer conundrums.’ -- Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University, US‘Regulating Health Foods systematically organizes the widely disparate definitions, regulations and policies used internationally to govern functional foods, supplements and nutraceuticals, doing so from the standpoint of the industry and its regulators. Food scientists, regulators and industry professionals will especially appreciate its detailed international perspective.’ -- Marion Nestle, New York University, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. What are “Health Foods”? 3. Evolving Policy Issues and Regulatory Frameworks 4. Health Claim Regulations in Developed Markets 5. Health Claim Regulations in Emerging Markets 6. Industry and Market Trends 7. Consumer Responses to Health Foods 8. Through the Looking glass References Index

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Book SynopsisRapid advances in the life sciences means that there is now a far more detailed understanding of biological systems on the cellular, molecular and genetic levels. Sited at the intersection between the life sciences, the engineering sciences and the design sciences, innovations in the biomaterials industry are expected to garner increasing attention and play a key role in future development. This book examines the biomaterials innovations taking place in corporations and in academic research settings today.Biomaterials Innovation offers a comprehensive overview of life science innovation and presents empirical research in the field of biomaterials innovation. Alexander Styhre examines innovation management practices in the field of biomaterials development and explains institutional changes in the biomaterials industry. The demand for accomplishing biocompatibility between the human body and the materials developed is highlighted, as is the relationship between financial markets and biomaterials companies. Finally, the author discusses the therapeutic, regulatory and managerial implications of biomaterials innovation.Biomaterials Innovation will be required reading for any researcher, policy-maker or student interested in innovation management, the life sciences and the development of health care therapies.Contents: 1. Life and Materiality, Nature and Artifice: Transgressing the Divide 2. Bios, Materiality, and Biomateriality 3. Innovation Management and Innovation in the Life Sciences 4. Shifting Institutional Logics in Biomaterial Companies 5. The Epistemology of Biomaterials: How Biomaterials Become Embodied 6. Financing Biomaterials Innovation: Selling Science in Venture Capital Markets 7. Biomaterials Innovation: Re-creating the Human Body Appendix: Methodology of the Studies Bibliography IndexTable of ContentsContents: 1. Life and Materiality, Nature and Artifice: Transgressing the Divide 2. Bios, Materiality, and Biomateriality 3. Innovation Management and Innovation in the Life Sciences 4. Shifting Institutional Logics in Biomaterial Companies 5. The Epistemology of Biomaterials: How Biomaterials Become Embodied 6. Financing Biomaterials Innovation: Selling Science in Venture Capital Markets 7. Biomaterials Innovation: Re-creating the Human Body Appendix: Methodology of the Studies Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDukes, Braithwaite and Moloney reach the depressing conclusion that 'corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry appears to be on the rise.' Their approach to this problem is much more nuanced than just throwing people in jail. They advocate for a pyramid of regulatory strategies including qui tam legislation and equity fines. There is an opportunity for a radical transformation of the pharmaceutical industry and the authors offer us a road map to begin that journey.'- Joel Lexchin MD, York University, CanadaThe pharmaceutical industry must exist to serve the community, but over the years it has engaged repeatedly in corporate crime and anti-social behavior, with the public footing the bill. This readable study by experts in medicine, law, criminology and public health, with deep experience of the industry, documents problems ranging from false advertising and counterfeiting to corruption, fraud and overpricing. It is a fresh and revealing look at the unacceptable pressures brought to bear on doctors, politicians, patients and the media.Uniquely, the book presents realistic and worldwide solutions for the future, with positive policies encouraging honest dealing, as well as partial privatization of enforcement and a transformation of science policy to develop the medicines that society needs most. The authors examine in turn each of the main facets of the pharmaceutical industry's activities - research, manufacturing, information, distribution and pricing - as well as some questionable aspects of its relationship with society.Offering a considered analysis of pharmaceutical rights and wrongs as they have developed, particularly over the last half-century, this book is rich in new insights for managers in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies and health agencies.Contents: Essay Part I: Setting the Scene Introduction Part II: A View of Rights and Wrongs 1. Creating a Medicine: Why, How and How Not 2. Safe, Unsafe and Improper Manufacturing Practices 3. Aggressive or Misleading Promotion 4. The Dark Art of Manipulation: The Industry and its Puppets 5. Corruption, Counterfeiting and Fraud 6. Prices, Monopolies, Abuses and the Law Part III: Transforming the Way Ahead 7. A Criminological Perspective on a Worsening Crisis 8. Positive Regulation: The Complementary Role of Supports and Sanctions 9. A Responsive Criminal Law of Pharmaceuticals 10. Privatising Enforcement 11. A New Capitalism: A New Drug Diplomacy IndexTrade Review'This well-researched book explains in plain language what pharmaceutical companies want and what they claim to desire – two very different things. Covering topics ranging from falsified data to misleading advertising. Dukes, Braithwaite, and Moloney reveal how Big Pharma lines its pockets and those of its shareholders by manipulating virtually every aspect of drug manufacturing and marketing. This is essential, thorough, and balanced information for anyone in health care, life science, or the drug manufacturing industry.' -- Wolf von Laer, Journal of the History of Economic Thought‘Dukes, Braithwaite and Moloney reach the depressing conclusion that “corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry appears to be on the rise.” Their approach to this problem is much more nuanced than just throwing people in jail. They advocate for a pyramid of regulatory strategies including qui tam legislation and equity fines. There is an opportunity for a radical transformation of the pharmaceutical industry and the authors offer us a road map to begin that journey.’ -- Joel Lexchin MD, York University, Canada‘Given the provenance, this book was always going to be excellent, but it exceeded my highest expectations. It’s one of those rare works that combine true scholarship with great imagination and ends up also a real pleasure to read. The breadth of analysis is remarkable and the modelling for better futures is superb. It’s more than a must read book; it is a must heed commentary, a blueprint for better public health that would be perilous to ignore.’ -- Charles Medawar, Founder of Social Audit and author of Power and Dependence: Social Audit on the Safety of Medicines‘This is a powerful book that demands to be read by all those concerned about the health of nations. It is also a call to arms for criminologists to turn a scholarly eye to the plethora of harms and crimes perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry. Our response to this is long overdue.’ -- Paddy Rawlinson, Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologyTable of ContentsContents: Essay Part I: Setting the Scene Introduction Part II: A View of Rights and Wrongs 1. Creating a Medicine: Why, How and How Not 2. Safe, Unsafe and Improper Manufacturing Practices 3. Aggressive or Misleading Promotion 4. The Dark Art of Manipulation: The Industry and its Puppets 5. Corruption, Counterfeiting and Fraud 6. Prices, Monopolies, Abuses and the Law Part III: Transforming the Way Ahead 7. A Criminological Perspective on a Worsening Crisis 8. Positive Regulation: The Complementary Role of Supports and Sanctions 9. A Responsive Criminal Law of Pharmaceuticals 10. Privatising Enforcement 11. A New Capitalism: A New Drug Diplomacy Index

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Book SynopsisWine and the wine trade are steeped in culture and history; few products have consistently enjoyed both cultural importance and such wide distribution over time even seen by some as 'an elixir of life'. While wine has been produced and consumed for centuries, what is distinctive about the economics of wine? Professor Marks's book is an accessible exploration of the economics of wine, using both basic principles and specialized topics and emphasizing microeconomics and related research.Drawing upon economic themes such as International Trade and Public Choice, Wine and Economics also relates economic reasoning to management issues in wine markets. The discussion ranges from economic fundamentals and wine and government, to the challenge of knowing what is in the bottle and the importance of wine as a cultural good.This novel and comprehensive introduction to the subject is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and anyone interested in wine and the wine industry.Trade Review’Denton Marks's book fills a void in both the economic and the wine-related literature. It offers the economic student insights into the wine world and the wine professionals into economic thinking. Certainly, this is the first 'wine economics' textbook.’ -- Karl Storchmann, New York University, US and Managing Editor, Journal of Wine Economics’What is welcome with Denton's book is its exploration beyond the narrow focus of wine pricing. The outline of how wine fits into key economic processes is illuminating, and the understanding of the political economy of wine is especially helpful. Crucially, the examination of how wine functions as a cultural good is a real expansion of our understanding of its social and economic context, underlining that value is not merely a financial construct but includes intangible, symbolic meaning as well.’ -- Steve Charters, School of Wine and Spirits Business, Burgundy School of Business, France’Most professions show a professional interest in wine, and economics is no exception: it can help us understand how wine markets work. But since economics is considered by many as a rather 'dry' subject, wine can boost student enthusiasm for economics. This book exploits those two interests by helping non-economists understand wine producer and consumer behaviour and helping college students understand economics.’ -- Kym Anderson, University of Adelaide and Australian National University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Relevance of Economics 3. Comparative Advantage and Why We Transact 4. Some Basic Tools of Economics: Consumer Behavior and Demand 5. Some Basic Tools of Economics: Firm Behavior, Supply And Equilibrium in a Market 6. Wine and Government 7. A Closer Look at the Transaction: How Do We Know What Is In the Bottle? 8. Wine as a Cultural Good 9. Conclusion Endnotes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how significantly food governance is changing at both the national and international levels. What is particularly noteworthy about this volume is how clearly and comprehensively it integrates the important public and private dimensions of food governance.'- David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley, USThis book examines the changing landscape of food governance. Within this landscape, both public and private regulators increasingly encounter one another as markets have become more globalized. While these encounters may often be planned, long-term and lead to positive relationships and outcomes, they can also be accidental collisions that result in antagonistic relationships and crisis. Empirically, this book investigates these public and private encounters in food governance and the institutional challenges they raise. Importantly, it also explores the public policy responses to these issues at the national, supranational and transnational levels, and investigates new forms of private food regulation.Against this empirical backdrop, the contributors provide insights into broader analytical issues that have animated regulatory governance scholarship such as the legitimacy and effectiveness of public and private regulation, the distribution of power in regulatory arrangements, the interaction of layers and networks of regulation and regulatory responses to crisis.This comprehensive book will be of great value to those interested in gaining an interdisciplinary understanding of the empirical area of food governance and the analytical issues of regulatory governance.Contributors include: G. Abels, J.P. Burns, F. Casarosa, D. Casey, N. Collins, V.Constant LaForce, R. van Dalen, G. Enticott, E. Fagotto, D. Fuchs, M. Gobbato, J.-C. Gottwald, T. Havinga, A. Kalfagianni, A. Kobusch, R. Lee, J. Li, P. Oosterveer, H. van der Voort, F. van Waarden, X. WangTrade Review‘The Changing Landscape of Food Governance: Public and Private Encounters is an interdisciplinary book, edited by three scholars with expertise in law examining the recent transformation of food governance. . . . This volume is a good survey of the current food governance landscape. . . . Overall this volume is organized, well-written, and a persuasive and enjoyable read.’ -- Agriculture and Human Values‘This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how significantly food governance is changing at both the national and international levels. What is particularly noteworthy about this volume is how clearly and comprehensively it integrates the important public and private dimensions of food governance.’ -- David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Changing Regulatory Arrangements in Food Governance Tetty Havinga, Donal Casey and Frans van Waarden 2. Conceptualizing Regulatory Arrangements: Complex Networks and Regulatory Roles Tetty Havinga PART II PUBLIC POLICY RESPONSES TO FOOD SAFETY CHALLENGES 3. Regulation of Food Safety in the EU: Explaining Organizational Diversity Among Member States Gabriele Abels and Alexander Kobusch 4. Buying Biosecurity: UK Compensation for Animal Diseases Gareth Enticott and Robert Lee 5. Being Well Fed: Food Safety Regimes in China Neil Collins and Jörn-Carsten Gottwald 6. The Political Economy of Chinese Food Safety Regulation: Distributing Adulterated Milk Powder in Mainland China and Taiwan John P. Burns, Jing Li and Xiaoqi Wang PART III NEW FORMS OF PRIVATE FOOD GOVERNANCE 7. Authority and Legitimacy in Governing Global Food Chains Peter Oosterveer 8. The Effectiveness of Private Food Governance in Fostering Sustainable Development Agni Kalfagianni and Doris Fuchs 9. Food Quality through Networks in the European Wine Industry Federica Casarosa and Marco Gobbato 10. Markets Regulating Markets: Competitive Private Regulation by Halal Certificates Frans van Waarden and Robin van Dalen PART IV HOW PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REGULATION MEET 11. Are We being Served? The Relationship between Public and Private Food Safety Regulation Elena Fagotto 12. Between Public and Private Requirements: Challenges and Opportunities for the Export of Tropical Fruits from Developing Countries to the EU Vanessa Constant LaForce 13. The Meta-governance of Co-regulation: Safeguarding the Quality of Dutch Eggs Haiko van der Voort Index

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Book SynopsisProfessor Stazi's volume on biotechnological inventions is an excellent work that any scholar or practitioner in this complex area of law should not only read, but also frequently consult. This detailed, systematic and comprehensive explanation of the provisions on 'patentability of life' - both in the EU and the USA - is combined with the related theories and constructions as well as the relevant case law. In this regard, the author offers a balanced overview of the relevant provisions and their explicit or implied exceptions.'- Alberto Musso, University of Bologna, Italy'The appropriate protection of biotechnological inventions and the so-called 'patentability of life' are one of the most crucial questions of modern intellectual property. It is also one of the most debated, as it involves not only complex legal issues but raises high social, ethical and even sometimes religious concerns. Professor Stazi's book is thus a very timely contribution, managing the 'tour de force' of combining serious and comparative doctrinal analysis of the criteria (and the limits) of patentability, while at the same time offering a good overview of the challenges with regard to bioethics and fundamental rights. Without any doubt, this volume will enrich the already excellent series on New Directions in Patent Law.'- Christophe Geiger, CEIPI, University of Strasbourg, FranceIn today's technological world, biotechnology is one of the most innovative and highly invested-in industries for research, in the field of science. This book analyzes the forms and limitations of patent protection recognition for biotechnological inventions, with particular regard to patentability of life.The author expertly compares the United States model, traditionally based on technical evaluations, with the European model, inspired by fundamental rights and bioethics. He highlights how the regulation of biotechnological inventions should guarantee a fair balance between protection of investment and access to information, which is essential for further research and innovation.Academics and practitioners dealing with intellectual property, patent law and biotechnological inventions will find this book to be of interest. The topics discussed will also be useful for patent offices and medical institutions, as well as medical researchers.Trade Review‘Professor Stazi’s volume on biotechnological inventions is an excellent work that any scholar or practitioner in this complex area of law should not only read, but also frequently consult. This detailed, systematic and comprehensive explanation of the provisions on “patentability of life” – both in the EU and the USA – is combined with the related theories and constructions as well as the relevant case law. In this regard, the author offers a balanced overview of the relevant provisions and their explicit or implied exceptions.’ -- Alberto Musso, University of Bologna, Italy‘The appropriate protection of biotechnological inventions and the so-called “patentability of life” are one of the most crucial questions of modern intellectual property. It is also one of the most debated, as it involves not only complex legal issues but raises high social, ethical and even sometimes religious concerns. Professor Stazi’s book is thus a very timely contribution, managing the “tour de force” of combining serious and comparative doctrinal analysis of the criteria (and the limits) of patentability, while at the same time offering a good overview of the challenges with regard to bioethics and fundamental rights. Without any doubt, this volume will enrich the already excellent series on New Directions in Patent Law.’ -- Christophe Geiger, CEIPI, University of Strasbourg, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Patent Protection of Biotechnological Inventions and the Limits of Patentability 2. Interventions on Human Genetic Material: Legal and Bioethical Issues 3. The Evolution of the Discipline and Problematic Issues in the United States of America 4. The Evolution of the Discipline and Problematic Issues in Europe Conclusions Index

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Book Synopsis"...A Serf's Journal is a powerful and much-needed overdue call for solidarity today." Alfie Bown, Hong Kong Review of Books Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers as they fight a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the interplay between regulation and emerging technologies in the context of synthetic biology, a developing field that promises great benefits, and has already yielded fuels and medicines made with designer micro-organisms. For all its promise, however, it also poses various risks. Investigating the distinctiveness of synthetic biology and the regulatory issues that arise, Alison McLennan questions whether synthetic biology can be regulated within existing structures or whether new mechanisms are needed. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, McLennan draws on diverse areas of law, the science of synthetic biology and the history and sociology of science. She concludes that synthetic biology presents novel regulatory challenges relating to environmental risk, biosafety, biosecurity and intellectual property. These challenges arise from the uniqueness of the science, the nature of its communities of scientists (including citizen scientists or 'biobunks') and the uncertainty surrounding possible hazards. Some scientists see intellectual property protection as a way to push innovation forward (bioentrepreneurs), while others openly share synthetic biology tools such as BioBricks. By understanding the range of regulatory challenges, the book make a case for enhanced regulation that protects us from synthetic biology's risks, whilst capturing its potential to improve our world. Regulation of Synthetic Biology will be essential reading for academics and students in the social sciences and law, as well as for scientists working in synthetic biology, and policymakers in innovation, science and the regulation of these fields.Trade Review'In Regulation of Synthetic Biology, Alison McLennan provides a thoroughly-researched, incisive, and engaging account of a vitally-important field at the bleeding-edge of biology. From synthetic biology's origins at the intersection of life sciences and engineering, to the safety and security alarm bells it has set off among citizens and governments, to creative institutional attempts at self-government, McLennan weaves together complexities of science, ethics, law, and regulation into a fascinating story of runaway innovation and society's attempts to govern it.' --Andrew W. Torrance, University of Kansas and MIT Sloan School of Management, US'This book provides a comprehensive, clear and up-to-date overview of the legal and regulatory issues raised by the field of synthetic biology, covering topics such as biosafety, biosecurity and intellectual property. It also develops an original critical analysis of the report on the ethics of synthetic biology by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and puts forward novel arguments for the formation of a new Synthetic Biology Agency.' --Jane Calvert, University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I: The new world of synthetic biology: Possibilities, challenges and debates 1. Introduction 2. Making biology easy to engineer: The science of synthetic biology, the emergence of the field and its major applications 3. Science meets politics, activists and governance: Evaluating key positions in synthetic biology debates 4. New Directions? The United States Presidential Commission’s investigation of synthetic biology’s risks, benefits and oversight Part II: Regulating for the Risks 5. Environmental Risk: Uncertainty, precaution, prudent vigilance and adaptation 6. Synthetic Biology, Biosafety and ‘Biopunks’ 7. Biosecurity: Potential for deliberate misuse of synthetic biology Part III Regulating for the Benefits 8. How will patents affect synthetic biology? 9. Building with BioBricks: a commons for sharing synthetic biology research 10. Conclusion and Future Directions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides evidence to support the health-promoting components of green tea for human health. It explores the significance of green tea and its catechins represented by epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), demonstrating their beneficial effects on diseases including cancer, obesity, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hepatitis, and neurodegenerative diseases. The present status of human studies and avenues for future research are discussed. It is written by a team of experts from across the globe and makes significant Japanese findings available to international researchers. It is an essential resource for researchers interested in the biochemistry and pharmacology of green tea, and functional foods and beverages.Table of ContentsPart 1: Overall Perspective 1: Efficacy of Tea in Human Health 2: Characteristics of Japanese Green Tea 3: Research on Tea and Human Health in China and the Contribution to the Development of Chinese Tea Industry 4: Studies on Japanese Scientists on the Health Effects of Green Tea 5: Health Related Studies of Tea in Africa 6: Efficient Synthesis of Catechin Probe and Its Molecular Dynamics 7: Bioavailability and Biotransformation of Tea polyphenols Part 2: Anti-Cancer Effects 8: Tea Catechins in Cancer Prevention and Therapy- Molecular Mechanism and Human Relevance 9: Green Tea Catechins for the Prevention of Colorectal Tumorigenesis: from Bench to Bed 10: Green Tea Polyphenol EGCG Sensing Receptor 11: Clinical Trials and New Drug Development Part 3: Effects on Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome and Related Diseases 12: Preventive Effects of Obesity by Green Tea and its Components 13: The Effects of Tea Gallolyl Catechins on the Reduction of Body Fat 14: Protective Effects of Green Tea Catechins on Cardio- and Cerebral Vascular Diseases 15: Preventive Effects on Human Obesity 16: Anti-diabetic Effects Part 4: Other Health Beneficial Effects of Tea Catechins and other Constituents 17: Impact of Green Tea Catechins on Multi-drug-resistant Bacterial Pathogens 18: Effects of Green Tea on Influenza Infection and the Common Cold 19: Immune Regulatory Effect of Green Tea 20: Protective Effects of Catechins on Hepatitis and Liver Fibrosis 21: Effects of Green Tea Catechins on Aging and Dementia 22: Green Tea in the Protection against Neurodegeneration 23: Effect of High-Molecular-Weight Polyphenol (Mitochondria Activation Factor) Derived from Black Tea and Oolong Tea on Mitochondria Function 24: Effects of Theanine and Other Ingredients of Tea on Stress and Aging 25: Green Tea and Oral Health 26: Radioprotective Effects of Green Tea 27: Effects of Catechins on Intestinal Flora

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Book SynopsisThe fourth industrial revolution is having a major impact on industry and societies primarily because of what has been called its raw material: data. New technologies are allowing hyper-connection on a global scale, not only between people, but also between people and machines and, in the case of the Internet of Things, even amongst machines themselves. This book offers a critical reflection on the meaning and expected consequences of the fourth industrial revolution, with a particular focus on the advent of digital globalisation and its implications for industrial policy. Industrial revolutions are considered not only in terms of technological progress, but also in the context of the changing relationship between market and production dynamics, and the social and political conditions enabling the development of new technologies. Industrial Policy for the Manufacturing Revolution aims to increase our capacity to anticipate and adapt to the forthcoming structural changes. It outlines the type of industrial policy and strategies that are needed in this era of rapid transformation. The authors propose a 'comprehensive industrial policy' that considers the complexity of structural changes involving industry as well as institutions and social and education policies, in order to encourage the participation of all citizens in the development process. The book also features a concrete example of comprehensive industrial policy implementation at the regional level.This stimulating and thoughtful book makes the case that industrial policies are more vital than ever, particularly now as the economy undergoes a technological revolution. It will be required reading for all those interested in industrial economics and policy, business and technology.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Globalisation and the Manufacturing Revolution 2. The first Manufacturing Revolutions: not just Technological Change 3. The Fourth Industrial Revolution 4. New modes of interacting on markets: online platforms 5. A concrete experiment of industrial policy for the Manufacturing Revolution 6. Conclusions: Industrial Policy for the Manufacturing Revolution Index

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the significance of the requirement of industrial application within gene patenting and how this influences innovation in Europe and the US. The author addresses an area normally overlooked in biotechnology patenting due to the predominance of the ethical debate and, in doing so, produces a unique approach to dealing with concerns in this field. Patenting Genes: The Requirement of Industrial Application is the result of extensive research into the legal history of the industrial application requirement as well as exploration of the broad range of decisions on DNA patentability. This requirement has taken a prominent role within DNA patenting decisions in Europe since the 1998 Biotech Directive, which Dr Diaz Pozo argues has worked efficiently to control claims to human gene sequences and encouraged progress in genetic research. A broad selection of decisions on the patentability of DNA in both European Union and US courts is discussed, emphasizing the mirroring of the European approach in US cases. Academics and students of patent law and biotechnology innovation, as well as policy formulators, will find this book of great interest and value. Activists and practitioners interested in the patentability of human gene inventions in Europe and the US will also benefit from this original work.Trade Review'This insightful and accessible book provides a uniquely thorough examination of the European requirement of industrial application and the determination of the scope of protection of gene patents. It is a scholarly work of the highest quality and rewards readers with its clear and accessible approach to the often overlooked legal issues surrounding the patentability of biotechnological inventions on grounds of industrial application. The book is highly recommended for academics and for practitioners alike.' --(Duncan Matthews, Queen Mary University of London, UK)'This book provides a valuable contribution to the understanding of industrial application in patent law. It shows how - with the evolvement of biotechnology patent law - a formerly obscure patentability requirement became a key tool for patent law policy. A detailed discussion of the Biotechnology Directive, as well as in-depth analysis of EPO and CJEU jurisprudence, makes this book worthwhile reading for any IP lawyer concerned with patent law.' --(Herbert Zech, University of Basel, Switzerland)Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Genetic inventions and patent law in Europe 3. The European requirement of industrial application 4. The industrial applicability of human genetic inventions 5. The requirement of industrial application and the interpretation of the exclusion of human genetic discoveries from patent protection 6. The requirement of industrial application and the determination of the scope of protection of gene patents 7. Human gene patents, patent clusters and innovative progress 8. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis is an invaluable piece of work that, to my knowledge, is not replicated anywhere, even in piecemeal fashion. It should be read by everyone having a stake in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. It fills an historical vacuum in US-EU agricultural trade relationships that has existed for decades. This book provides the context of the past half century, and it will be invaluable for another half century.'- Clayton Yeutter, Former US Trade Representative, Former US Secretary of Agriculture and Senior Advisor at Hogan Lovells, USTim Josling and Stefan Tangermann's Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy traces the past fifty years of transatlantic trade relations in the area of food and agricultural policy, from early skirmishes over farm policies to on-going conflicts over biotech foods and hormone use in animal rearing.The authors take an analytical approach to the causes of transatlantic conflict and the extent to which these trade tensions in agricultural markets have reflected wide differences in policy approaches and levels of support. They explore the role played by international rules, in the GATT, and subsequently the WTO, in disciplining farm price support policies to allow for more open markets. The book also points to possible ways to end five decades of transatlantic trade tensions in the area of food and farm products.Scholars, practitioners and policymakers will find this timely book an invaluable and comprehensive guide to the causes of, and solutions to, the persistent EU-US trade conflicts in agricultural and food policy.Trade Review'Two of the world's brightest academic and economic minds convene and draw a precise picture of how US-EU trade relations in food and agriculture developed in the last 50 years. Timothy E. Josling and Stefan Tangermann take you behind the scenes of intense transatlantic negotiations and show you who pulls the strings on both sides of the Atlantic. The book is a must read for all who want to better understand the workings of current transatlantic negotiations and future global regulations related to food policy.' --Franz Fischler, President of the European Forum Alpbach and former EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Fisheries'Josling and Tangermann, foremost experts in their field, provide an historical look at EU - US agricultural and food policy and the current Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. An invaluable explanation of 50 years of conflict and convergence that provides timely insights into the possible reconciliation of EU and US policy post-TTIP.' --Pascal Lamy, Former Director-General of the WTO'Overall, the book is fascinating reading. The wealth of knowledge of the authors and their thoughtful scholarship are demonstrated through a clear and relatively impartial analysis of the history of the trading relationship between two of the world's foremost economic and political powers and the complex issues that have characterized that history. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how EU-US agricultural trade relations have evolved and the challenges that both currently face in trying to conclude a wide-ranging bilateral agreement on trade and investment.' --David Blandford, American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Emergence of Transatlantic Agricultural Tensions (1957 to 1971) 2. Turbulent Markets and Increasing Trade Conflicts (1972 to 1985) 3. The Adoption of Disciplines and the Domestic Reforms (1986 to 2001) 4. Growing Challenges to US and EU Farm Policies (2001 to 2014) 5. Food Policy Moves to Center Stage in Transatlantic Relations (1986 to 2013) 6. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Path to Convergence (2011 to 2014 and Beyond) 7. Lasting Conflict or Eventual Convergence? References Index

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Book SynopsisIn a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as advisers to the Principal Supply Officers Committee. They provided the state with priceless advice, but, as “insiders” utilised their access to information to build a business empire at a fraction of the normal costs. Outsiders, in contrast, lacked influence and were forced together into a defensive “ring” – or cartel – which effectively fixed prices for British warships. By the 1930s, the cartel grew into one of the most sophisticated profiteering groups of its day. This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen, and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the military-industrial complex through the impact of disarmament upon private industry, the role of leading industrialists in supply and procurement policy, and the successes and failings of government organisation. It blends together political, naval, and business history in new ways, and, by situating the business activities of industrialists alongside their work as government advisors, sheds new light on the operation of the British state. This is the story of how these men profited while effectively saving the National Government from itself.

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Book SynopsisLarge-scale adverse health and developmental outcomes related to tobacco affect millions of people across the world, raising serious questions from a human rights perspective. In response to this crisis, this timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of the promotion and enforcement of human rights protection in tobacco control law and policy at international, regional, and domestic levels. This thought-provoking book offers significant new insights to the topic, laying the foundations for a human rights based approach to tobacco control. Addressing the function of law as a tool to help combat one of the major public health challenges facing society, contributions by global scholars rebut human rights claims presented by the tobacco industry. Emphasis is instead placed upon the human rights of vulnerable individuals, children in particular, as a result of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke. Illustrating ways in which the right to health can be advanced with regards to tobacco control, smoking and the use of e-cigarettes, this important book will be a vital resource for human rights and health law scholars and practitioners as well as policy makers in public health law. Contributors include: D. Barrett, D. Beyleveld, O.A. Cabrera, A. Constantin A. Garde, M.E. Gispen, L. Gruszczynski, J. Hannah, S. Karjalainen, L. Lane, S. Lierman, A.L. McCarthy, A. Mitchell, S. Negri, O. Nnamuchi, M. Roberts, A. Schmidt, M. Sormunen, A. Taylor, B. Toebes, M. van Westendorp, Y. ZhangTrade Review'Marie Elske Gispen and Brigit Toebes have written a book of worldwide importance and impact. Tobacco is still the leading preventable cause of death globally. Big Tobacco poses a major threat to the right to health. Using a human rights lens, Gispen and Toebes powerfully show how human flourishing demands bold action on tobacco control. The authors are thought leaders globally on health and human rights. Their book is both a superb work of scholarship and a call to action for public health and human rights scholars and advocates everywhere.' --Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University, US'Human rights law, at international, regional and national levels, offers important concepts and processes for strengthening tobacco control. Understanding this, the tobacco industry has also sought to co-opt human rights laws and concepts to serve its economic interests. The importance of human rights law to tobacco control is not well understood, which is why this book - convening the leading experts in this emerging field - is such a welcome and important contribution.' --Roger Magnusson, The University of Sydney, Australia'A well conceptualized and comprehensive volume on a key issue of our time. Varied in their approach to the topic, the pieces brought together here move from the global to the regional to the national, highlighting the interplay between legal systems, and show how human rights-based approaches to tobacco can support specific measures and actions. Illustrating not only how tobacco can be understood as a human rights concern but where human rights arguments fall short, this book shows how critical attention to ethical, normative and legal arguments may move us forward not only in rhetorical but actionable ways.' --Sofia Gruskin, University of Southern California, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Danius Puras 1. Introduction Marie Elske Gispen PART 1 NORMATIVE REFLECTIONS 2. Dignity, vulnerability and human agency in the context of tobacco Deryck Beyleveld 3. Is there a human right to tobacco control? Andreas Schmidt PART 2 INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACHES TO TOBACCO CONTROL AND THEIR LINK TO OTHER FIELDS OF LAW 4. Tobacco control in international human rights law Oscar Cabrera and Andrés Constantin 5. Accountability, human rights and the responsibilities of the tobacco industry Lottie Lane 6. Is there a European human rights approach to tobacco control? Amandine Garde and Brigit Toebes 7. Exploring the role of the ASEAN in fostering human rights approaches to tobacco control in Southeast Asia Yi Zhang 8. Tobacco use, exploitation and vulnerability in Africa: a human rights analysis Obiajulu Nnamuchi 9. Tobacco control in the Inter-American human rights system Oscar Cabrera and Andrés Constantin 10. Human rights in the origins of the FCTC Allyn Taylor and Alisha McCarthy 11. Human rights and tobacco control: lessons from illicit drugs Damon Barrett and Julie Hannah 12. The role of IEL dispute settlement bodies in reinforcing the sovereign rights of States in the field of tobacco control Lukasz Gruszczynski PART 3 SPECIFIC ELEMENTS OF TOBACCO CONTROL LAW AND POLICY IN LIGHT OF HUMAN RIGHTS 13. Smoke-free environments: lessons from Italy Stefania Negri 14. The tobacco endgame: experiences from Finland Milka Sormunen and Sakari Karjalainen 15. E-cigarettes in Belgium : while the smoke clears the fog rises Steven Lierman and Mathijs van Westendorp 16. Human rights and tobacco plain packaging in Australia Andrew Mitchell and Marcus Roberts 17. Conclusions Brigit Toebes Index

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Book SynopsisTransforming Industrial Policy for the Digital Age argues that digital globalization is inducing deep and productive transformations, making industrial policy necessary in order to reorientate development towards inclusive and more sustainable growth. It demonstrates that industrialization remains an important development process for emerging economies. Featuring contributions by leading scholars, this timely book unpacks the dynamics of 'Industry 4.0', including computer-based algorithms, integration with cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. As existing global value chains take advantage of the new technologies to reorganize production, the contributors explore the implications of new industrial policies, and to what extent they have promoted structural changes that maintain sustainability. This book reflects on the lessons that can be drawn from the history of national industrial policies from across the globe, covering the successes and failures of national policy in promoting industry in response to productive transformations in industrial organization. Insightful and nuanced, this book will benefit scholars of both economics and industrial public policy. International experts and policy-makers will also appreciate this book's critical insight into the transformative shifts in global industrial organization and policies.Table of ContentsContents: PART I IMPACT OF INDUSTRY 4.0 ON MANUFACTURING 1. The role of manufacturing versus that services in economic development Jostein Hauge and Ha-Joon Chang 2. The “Lightness” of Industry 4.0 Lead Firms: Implications for global value chains Lukas Brun, Gary Gereffi and James Zhan 3. The National Innovation System (NIS) and readiness for the fourth industrial revolution: South Korea compared with four European countries Keun Lee and Jongho Lee PART II LESSONS FROM PAST INDUSTRIAL POLICY 4. Industry and government in the long-run: The true story of the American model Marco R. Di Tommaso, Mattia Tassinari and Andrea Ferrannini 5. Chinese Industrialization, Planning, and Policies: Local Growth and Global Equilibria Marco R. Di Tommaso, Chiara Pollio, Elisa Barbieri and Lauretta Rubini 6. Long-term challenges of industrial development in Latin America and the Caribbean Jorge Máttar 7. The Future of Industrial Policies in the World: towards a new manufacturing narrative Clemente Ruiz Durán PART III UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT IN TIMES OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND NEED FOR TERRITORIAL INDUSTRIAL POLICY 8. Industry 4.0+ challenges to local productive systems and place-based integrated industrial policies Marco Bellandi, Lisa de Propris and Enrica Santini 9. Economic Policy in the Time of Reactionary Populism Michael J. Piore Index

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Book SynopsisPostharvest is an important element of getting fresh, high-quality fruit to the consumer and technological advances continue to outpace infrastructure. This book provides valuable, up-to-date information on postharvest handling of seven fruit and nut crops: almond, fig, peach, persimmon, pistachio, pomegranate and table grape. These crops are of particular importance in the Mediterranean region, but also to those countries that export and import these crops, where intensive economic resources are dedicated to developing information to understand and solve their postharvest problems. Written by a team of internationally-recognized postharvest experts, this manual collates and verifies essential, but often difficult to access, information on these important crops, that is pertinent to the world's agricultural economy and affects agricultural communities. The book: Covers relevant postharvest topics for each crop across harvesting, packing, shipping and retail postharvest phases. Has an emphasis on knowledge useful to solve current worldwide industry problems. Includes practical recommendations. Makes available for the first time in English information previously published in other languages. Includes up-to-date references and high-quality photos that make it an excellent resource for postharvest educators and students. This is a must-have manual for growers and commodity handlers, cold storage managers, transportation personnel, produce managers and retail handlers, researchers, or anyone in the food chain that packs, transports, stores and sells these fruits and nuts.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Almond Chapter 2: Fresh Fig Chapter 3: Peach and Nectarine Chapter 4: Persimmon Chapter 5: Pistachio Chapter 6: Pomegranate Chapter 7: Table Grape

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Book SynopsisInternational standards ensure that organisations operate the right processes to support their objectives. International Standards for Design and Manufacturing is an accessible guide for manufacturing and production managers and students. It guides readers through the standards needed to build operating systems which are robust, integrated and used to drive the continuous improvement of business performance. International Standards for Design and Manufacturing is based on many years of research collaboration between Swansea University and leading manufacturing and production practitioners from key companies from around the world. Each chapter includes an introduction to the standards being discussed, definitions, examples of using the standards in practice, why these standards are important, conclusions, seminar topics and mock exam questions to allow the reader to test their knowledge and understanding.Trade Review"International standards, whilst often being strongly debated and questioned as to the value, are important ingredients in delivering and maintaining internationally recognised excellence for customers and consumers and competitive advantages for the organisation. Nick and Tegwin bring together information on ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 into a readable form for students and practitioners. In doing so, this book will contribute to achieving excellence in design and manufacturing." * Pauline Found, Professor of Lean Operations Management, University of Buckingha *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: The importance of standards; Chapter - 02: The evolution of Total Quality Management (TQM); Chapter - 03: Introduction to management system standards; Chapter - 04: Quality management system standards; Chapter - 05: Operational excellence (OpEx); Chapter - 06: Environmental management systems standards (EMS); Chapter - 07: Occupational health and safety management systems; Chapter - 08: Information security management; Chapter - 09: Business continuity and uninterrupted product flow; Chapter - 10: Supply chain management, design and international standards; Chapter - 11: Developing a learning organization and auditing; Chapter - 12: Leadership and international standards; Chapter - 13: Implementation, resistance to change and sustaining change; Chapter - 14: Conclusions and looking forwards;

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Book SynopsisToyota Methods and Operating Models presents a case study of a small, traditional Italian manufacturer in the Toyota Industries Corporation Group, which began an important process of transformation until it became a successful, modern and advanced international business: Toyota Material Handling. Toyota management made internal changes and developed the commercial networks, successfully applying the Toyota Production System (TPS, or Lean Production) as well as the values of the Toyota Way. Author Stefano Cortiglioni led the transformation project, which took four years. Toyota Methods and Operating Models presents the continuing success story. The authors analyze the Toyota methods and operating models that can be directly applied to your business in order to reach excellence in operations and industry 4.0. It provides tangible advice on how to grow a business and achieve commercial success, with superior processes and logistics networks, as well as the development of an advanced and highly successful supply chain.Trade Review"Toyota Methods and Operating Models provides not only general Toyota Production System (TPS) advice, but also practical kaizen examples of what the Toyota Material Handling has achieved. This book will be useful to those wanting to improve their business similarly." * Sadao Nomura, Former Senior Advisor, Toyota Industrial Co. *"The Cesab and Toyota case is like a marriage between two different nationalities. It tells the story of a progressive convergence of objectives and a continuous effort to understand each other and integrate the best aspects of Japan and Italy. This has resulted in a business which grows year on year in terms turnover and productivity. I hope that it continues to grow." * Romano Prodi, Former President of European Commission *"Toyota Methods and Operating Models represents one of the most comprehensive investigations of Toyota, the essential Toyota spirit, and working practices at a non-Japanese manufacturing facility. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book because it provides a wonderful insight into the technical and social practices that underpin world class performance and the ways in which people continuously improve, innovate and learn." * Nick Rich, Professor of Socio-Technical Systems Design, Swansea University *Table of Contents Section - ONE: From CESAB to Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Italy; Chapter - 01: The Toyota Group; Chapter - 02: The History of CESAB; Chapter - 03: The product; Chapter - 04: From Push to Pull; Chapter - 05: The production lines; Chapter - 06: The model; Chapter - 07: The 2S (Seiri and Seiton); Chapter - 08: The Logistics; Chapter - 09: The organisation of Toyota; Chapter - 10: Standardisation; Chapter - 11: Quality; Chapter - 12: Visual Management; Chapter - 13: Kaizen and efficiency; Chapter - 14: Starting from the bottom up; Chapter - 15: Examples of the implementation of TPS in other organisations; Chapter - 16: Monozukuri and Hitozukuri (important men at the centre of the transformation); Chapter - 17: Toyota and Business; Chapter - 18: Kaizena and Financial Results; Chapter - 19: TPS and Industry 4.0; Section - TWO: The implementation of the Toyota Way into commercial processes and sales operations; Chapter - 20: The Toyota Academy; Chapter - 21: Problems faced, interviews with central figures; Chapter - 22: The Italian market; Chapter - 23: The Toyota Way, values, interpretations and lean; Chapter - 24: The new model A.C.C.E.S.S; Section - THREE: Appendices

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Book SynopsisToyota Methods and Operating Models presents a case study of a small, traditional Italian manufacturer in the Toyota Industries Corporation Group, which began an important process of transformation until it became a successful, modern and advanced international business: Toyota Material Handling. Toyota management made internal changes and developed the commercial networks, successfully applying the Toyota Production System (TPS, or Lean Production) as well as the values of the Toyota Way. Author Stefano Cortiglioni led the transformation project, which took four years. Toyota Methods and Operating Models presents the continuing success story. The authors analyze the Toyota methods and operating models that can be directly applied to your business in order to reach excellence in operations and industry 4.0. It provides tangible advice on how to grow a business and achieve commercial success, with superior processes and logistics networks, as well as the development of an advanced and highly successful supply chain.Trade Review"Toyota Methods and Operating Models provides not only general Toyota Production System (TPS) advice, but also practical kaizen examples of what the Toyota Material Handling has achieved. This book will be useful to those wanting to improve their business similarly." * Sadao Nomura, Former Senior Advisor, Toyota Industrial Co. *"The Cesab and Toyota case is like a marriage between two different nationalities. It tells the story of a progressive convergence of objectives and a continuous effort to understand each other and integrate the best aspects of Japan and Italy. This has resulted in a business which grows year on year in terms turnover and productivity. I hope that it continues to grow." * Romano Prodi, Former President of European Commission *"Toyota Methods and Operating Models represents one of the most comprehensive investigations of Toyota, the essential Toyota spirit, and working practices at a non-Japanese manufacturing facility. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book because it provides a wonderful insight into the technical and social practices that underpin world class performance and the ways in which people continuously improve, innovate and learn." * Nick Rich, Professor of Socio-Technical Systems Design, Swansea University *Table of Contents Section - ONE: From CESAB to Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Italy; Chapter - 01: The Toyota Group; Chapter - 02: The History of CESAB; Chapter - 03: The product; Chapter - 04: From Push to Pull; Chapter - 05: The production lines; Chapter - 06: The model; Chapter - 07: The 2S (Seiri and Seiton); Chapter - 08: The Logistics; Chapter - 09: The organisation of Toyota; Chapter - 10: Standardisation; Chapter - 11: Quality; Chapter - 12: Visual Management; Chapter - 13: Kaizen and efficiency; Chapter - 14: Starting from the bottom up; Chapter - 15: Examples of the implementation of TPS in other organisations; Chapter - 16: Monozukuri and Hitozukuri (important men at the centre of the transformation); Chapter - 17: Toyota and Business; Chapter - 18: Kaizena and Financial Results; Chapter - 19: TPS and Industry 4.0; Section - TWO: The implementation of the Toyota Way into commercial processes and sales operations; Chapter - 20: The Toyota Academy; Chapter - 21: Problems faced, interviews with central figures; Chapter - 22: The Italian market; Chapter - 23: The Toyota Way, values, interpretations and lean; Chapter - 24: The new model A.C.C.E.S.S; Section - THREE: Appendices

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Book SynopsisThe transport industry has an important role to play in addressing climate change and the environmental challenges facing governments, businesses and individuals. Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 will require this sector, which is a large contributor of emissions, to innovate, adapt and drive positive change. New technologies including batteries and alternative fuels will all be significant, as will developing different approaches and outlooks. The Road to Zero Emissions is the comprehensive guide for those in the transport industry to understanding what can and is being done to tackle climate change. Through examining established companies and new entrants in the automotive space, readers are provided with examples of the importance of infrastructure, business innovation and financing for the future. In addition to this, the role of governments in establishing policies, such as zero-emission zones, is also discussed. Progressing towards zero emissions requires immediate change and this book will start you on the journey.Trade Review"The Road to Zero Emissions is a timely reminder of the hurdles that need to be overcome in a sector that is currently high risk and low margin. Alternative power source options need to be considered and this will require significant investment." * Richard Burnett, Chief Executive, Road Haulage Association *"Whilst there is a lot of government and media messaging about climate change and protecting the environment, there are few publications if any that address these issues so comprehensively and clearly as in this book." * Martin Port – Chief Executive Officer, Big Change *"The Road to Zero Emissions provides a critical examination of how global vehicle manufacturers, transport and logistic organisations and Governments are tackling the threat of climate change." * Professor Tim Baines, Aston University Business School *"The Road to Zero Emissions details a clear pathway to the future of road transport and its important relationship with the environment. The success of zero emissions technology requires more efficient and shorter product development times. Rapid technology delivery has been accelerated through successful collaboration between manufacturers who are busy developing products for the wider market and product specialists such as Electra. I am delighted that this important book has been written and that the work of Electra Commercial Vehicles has been included." * Sid Sadique, Chairman/Owner, Electra Trucks Ltd. *"The Road to Zero Emissions is a concise narrative of the issues and hurdles that manufacturers, transport operators and their supply chains need to face." * Steve Hobson, Editor, Motor Transport *"The challenge of achieving Zero Emissions will not only require new products, energy systems and infrastructure investment. It will also need to provide training and support for the many levels of management in a very complex supply chain. Business model innovation will be a key driver of change and this book highlights many possible solutions." * Thomas Van Mouric — Chairman Culina Group *"The Road to Zero Emissions provides a comprehensive and insightful view of the important issues which will drive the reduction in energy consumption and the environmental impact." * Bob Harbey – Executive Director, Microlise *"Having been responsible for the operation and management of many transport companies and thousands of vehicles over the last 50 years I am well aware of the challenges to achieving Zero Emissions in the future. This comprehensive analysis of the future will provide many transport operators with a guidebook through the maze of options." * Glyn Davies – Chairman Landex Holdings *"Fossil fuel emissions have significantly contributed towards the climate change challenge that is arguably the biggest crisis facing the world today. This book critically examines the choices that industry and governments must make to reduce the threat of climate change, which in turn will have profound consequences for many of the world's leading business units." * Professor Malcom McDonald – Cranfield University *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: The road to zero emissions; Chapter - 02: The fall of the diesel engine and the rise of the electric motor; Chapter - 03: Climate change action and the Paris Agreement; Chapter - 04: The climate change challenge; Chapter - 05: Infrastructure challenge and the role of government; Chapter - 06: ‘Shock waves’ in the global battery market; Chapter - 07: Global energy systems and the impact of electric vehicles; Chapter - 08: EV development and the world’s ‘top 10’ commercial vehicle manufacturers; Chapter - 09: ‘New kids on the block’ – new entrants into the EV market space; Chapter - 10: Alternative fuels to diesel and electricity for trucks and transportation; Chapter - 11: Business innovation in the automotive sector; Chapter - 12: Financing the future; Chapter - 13: Journey milestones; Chapter - 14: The journey continues – 2050 and beyond

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Book SynopsisThe transport industry has an important role to play in addressing climate change and the environmental challenges facing governments, businesses and individuals. Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 will require this sector, which is a large contributor of emissions, to innovate, adapt and drive positive change. New technologies including batteries and alternative fuels will all be significant, as will developing different approaches and outlooks. The Road to Zero Emissions is the comprehensive guide for those in the transport industry to understanding what can and is being done to tackle climate change. Through examining established companies and new entrants in the automotive space, readers are provided with examples of the importance of infrastructure, business innovation and financing for the future. In addition to this, the role of governments in establishing policies, such as zero-emission zones, is also discussed. Progressing towards zero emissions requires immediate change and this book will start you on the journey.Trade Review"The Road to Zero Emissions is a timely reminder of the hurdles that need to be overcome in a sector that is currently high risk and low margin. Alternative power source options need to be considered and this will require significant investment." * Richard Burnett, Chief Executive, Road Haulage Association *"Whilst there is a lot of government and media messaging about climate change and protecting the environment, there are few publications if any that address these issues so comprehensively and clearly as in this book." * Martin Port – Chief Executive Officer, Big Change *"The Road to Zero Emissions provides a critical examination of how global vehicle manufacturers, transport and logistic organisations and Governments are tackling the threat of climate change." * Professor Tim Baines, Aston University Business School *"The Road to Zero Emissions details a clear pathway to the future of road transport and its important relationship with the environment. The success of zero emissions technology requires more efficient and shorter product development times. Rapid technology delivery has been accelerated through successful collaboration between manufacturers who are busy developing products for the wider market and product specialists such as Electra. I am delighted that this important book has been written and that the work of Electra Commercial Vehicles has been included." * Sid Sadique, Chairman/Owner, Electra Trucks Ltd. *"The Road to Zero Emissions is a concise narrative of the issues and hurdles that manufacturers, transport operators and their supply chains need to face." * Steve Hobson, Editor, Motor Transport *"The challenge of achieving Zero Emissions will not only require new products, energy systems and infrastructure investment. It will also need to provide training and support for the many levels of management in a very complex supply chain. Business model innovation will be a key driver of change and this book highlights many possible solutions." * Thomas Van Mouric — Chairman Culina Group *"The Road to Zero Emissions provides a comprehensive and insightful view of the important issues which will drive the reduction in energy consumption and the environmental impact." * Bob Harbey – Executive Director, Microlise *"Having been responsible for the operation and management of many transport companies and thousands of vehicles over the last 50 years I am well aware of the challenges to achieving Zero Emissions in the future. This comprehensive analysis of the future will provide many transport operators with a guidebook through the maze of options." * Glyn Davies – Chairman Landex Holdings *"Fossil fuel emissions have significantly contributed towards the climate change challenge that is arguably the biggest crisis facing the world today. This book critically examines the choices that industry and governments must make to reduce the threat of climate change, which in turn will have profound consequences for many of the world's leading business units." * Professor Malcom McDonald – Cranfield University *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: The road to zero emissions; Chapter - 02: The fall of the diesel engine and the rise of the electric motor; Chapter - 03: Climate change action and the Paris Agreement; Chapter - 04: The climate change challenge; Chapter - 05: Infrastructure challenge and the role of government; Chapter - 06: ‘Shock waves’ in the global battery market; Chapter - 07: Global energy systems and the impact of electric vehicles; Chapter - 08: EV development and the world’s ‘top 10’ commercial vehicle manufacturers; Chapter - 09: ‘New kids on the block’ – new entrants into the EV market space; Chapter - 10: Alternative fuels to diesel and electricity for trucks and transportation; Chapter - 11: Business innovation in the automotive sector; Chapter - 12: Financing the future; Chapter - 13: Journey milestones; Chapter - 14: The journey continues – 2050 and beyond

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the Totonac native community of Papantla, Veracruz, during the last half of the eighteenth century. Told through the lens of violent revolt, this is the first book-length study devoted to Papantla during the colonial era. The book tells the story of a native community confronting significant disruption of its agricultural tradition, and the violence that change provoked. Papantla's story is told in the form of an investigation into the political, social, and ethnic experience of an agrarian community. The Bourbon monopolisation of tobacco in 1764 disturbed a fragile balance, and pushed long-term native frustrations to the point of violence. Through the stories of four uprisings, Jake Frederick examines the Totonacs increasingly difficult economic environment, their view of justice, and their political tactics. Riot! argues that for the native community of Papantla, the nature of colonial rule was, even in the waning decades of the colonial era, a process of negotiation rather than subjugation. The second half of the eighteenth century saw an increase in collective violence across the Spanish American colonies as communities reacted to the strains imposed by the various Bourbon reforms. Riot! provides a much needed exploration of what the colony-wide policy reforms of Bourbon Spain meant on the ground in rural communities in New Spain. The narrative of each uprising draws the reader into the crisis as it unfolds, providing an entree into an analysis of the event. The focus on the community provides a new understanding of the demographics of this rural community, including an account of the as yet unexamined black population of Papantla.

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Book SynopsisThe fourth industrial revolution is having a major impact on industry and societies primarily because of what has been called its raw material: data. New technologies are allowing hyper-connection on a global scale, not only between people, but also between people and machines and, in the case of the Internet of Things, even amongst machines themselves. This book offers a critical reflection on the meaning and expected consequences of the fourth industrial revolution, with a particular focus on the advent of digital globalisation and its implications for industrial policy. Industrial revolutions are considered not only in terms of technological progress, but also in the context of the changing relationship between market and production dynamics, and the social and political conditions enabling the development of new technologies. Industrial Policy for the Manufacturing Revolution aims to increase our capacity to anticipate and adapt to the forthcoming structural changes. It outlines the type of industrial policy and strategies that are needed in this era of rapid transformation. The authors propose a 'comprehensive industrial policy' that considers the complexity of structural changes involving industry as well as institutions and social and education policies, in order to encourage the participation of all citizens in the development process. The book also features a concrete example of comprehensive industrial policy implementation at the regional level.This stimulating and thoughtful book makes the case that industrial policies are more vital than ever, particularly now as the economy undergoes a technological revolution. It will be required reading for all those interested in industrial economics and policy, business and technology.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Globalisation and the Manufacturing Revolution 2. The first Manufacturing Revolutions: not just Technological Change 3. The Fourth Industrial Revolution 4. New modes of interacting on markets: online platforms 5. A concrete experiment of industrial policy for the Manufacturing Revolution 6. Conclusions: Industrial Policy for the Manufacturing Revolution Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely Research Agenda provides a state-of-the-art review of existing research on manufacturing, as well as highlighting key areas of study to advance the field. Expert contributors from across the globe analyse the central role of manufacturing industries in the global economy, considering it as a multi-scalar process and assessing the impact of climate change in necessitating the decarbonization of production processes.Chapters identify and explore disruptive innovations in production technologies, including additive manufacturing, and their implications for future research. The book further highlights megatrends in automotive, electronics and emerging industries, including small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, Asian electronics production networks, global production networks, and operations and supply chain management. It develops a framework for accessing corporate elites and for guiding the process of undertaking qualitative semi-structured interviews.This Research Agenda will be a critical collection for economic geography, urban studies, city and regional planning, and business and management studies scholars seeking a forward-looking approach to the topic. It will also be useful to policymakers and practitioners working in regional economic development and planning.Table of ContentsContents: Dedication: Michael J. Taylor xv John R. Bryson Preface xix 1 Reframing manufacturing research: place, production, risk and theory 1 John R. Bryson, Chloe Billing, William Graves and Godfrey Yeung 2 Theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding emerging industries 33 Chloe Billing and John R. Bryson 3 Transforming manufacturing? An additive manufacturing research agenda 49 Jennifer Johns 4 Megatrends and new research agendas in the automotive industry 67 Godfrey Yeung 5 Getting the right skills in place for manufacturing: challenges and opportunities 91 Anne Green and Abigail Taylor 6 Addressing the evolution of clustering strategies in manufacturing: a policy research agenda 113 William Graves and Harrison S. Campbell, Jr 7 Going global in one location: exploring SME manufacturer internationalization motives at a trade fair 135 Ronald V. Kalafsky and Douglas R. Gress 8 The transformation of Asian electronics production networks: evidence from the participation of Vietnam 157 David Yuen Tung Chan and Chun Yang 9 How to increase the usefulness and relevance of operations and supply chain management research? 177 Donato Masi and Jan Godsell 10 Corporate interviewing and manufacturing companies: a framework to guide qualitative semi-structured interviews 193 John R. Bryson, Chloe Billing, Chantal Hales, Rachel Mulhall and Megan Ronayne 11 Reading manufacturing firms and new research agendas: scalar-plasticity, value/risk and the emergency of Jenga Capitalism 211 John R. Bryson Index

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