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Book SynopsisTear down the obstacles to creative innovation in your organization Unlocking Creativity is an exploration of the creative process and how organizations can clear the way for innovation. In many organizations, creative individuals face stubborn resistance to new ideas. Managers and executives oftentimes reject innovation and unconventional approaches due to misplaced allegiance to the status quo. Questioning established practices or challenging prevailing sentiments is frequently met with stiff resistance. In this climate of stifled creativity and inflexible adherence to conventional wisdom, potentially game-changing ideas are dismissed outright. Senior leaders claim to value creativity, yet often lack the knowledge to provide a creative framework. Unlocking Creativity offers effective methods and real-world examples of how the most successful organizations create cultures of innovation and experimentation. Best-selling author and scholar Michael RTable of ContentsPreface ix Chapter 1 The Resistance to New Ideas 1 Chapter 2 The Linear Mindset 21 Chapter 3 The Benchmarking Mindset 43 Chapter 4 The Prediction Mindset 67 Chapter 5 The Structural Mindset 87 Chapter 6 The Focus Mindset 113 Chapter 7 The Naysayer Mindset 137 Chapter 8 Leader as Teacher 159 Resources 179 Acknowledgments 181 About the Author 185 Index 187

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Have we created a monster? 1 Can we tame the beast? 9 2. Machines 15 Welcome to the web 18 Entangled in the dark: Quantum computing powers up 20 Speed makes it harder to drive 22 Big Brother was an amateur 25 From MAD to MADD 26 3. Capital 31 Income return, growth, and I dream of Gini 34 Surveillance capitalism and the digital oligarchs 38 Data, privacy, and the health of nations 40 Belt, road, and surveillance communism 43 Tribes and borders in cyberspace 46 Power shifts from the G7 to the D7 48 Intermission: Sunflower: When tech meets capital 4. Psychology 59 Digital fentanyl 62 Your 70,000-year-old operating system is melting 65 Who are you again? Identity in the digital age 70 The singularity is near. Unfortunately 73 5. Society 77 Modern Luddites and the growing techlash 80 Lessons from the rearview mirror 82 War has already been declared 85 6. A manifesto for taming the Monster 89 I. Co-author new rules of the road 92 II. Govern technology by community 95 III. Apply the Golden Rule in cyberspace 97 IV. Accept your role as part of the solution 98 V. Don’t give up on loving tech 101 VI. Treat your data like your reputation 103 VII. Fight against the relentless brain hacks 105 VIII. Modernize the authority over technology and capital 109 7. Off? 113 8. Postface: A story (as old as time) about the future 131 Notes 135 Acknowledgments 143 About the Authors 145 Index 147

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Book SynopsisAgile is broken. Most Agile transformations struggle. According to an Allied Market Research study, 63% of respondents stated the failure of agile implementation in their organizations. The problems with Agile start at the top of most organizations with executive leadership not getting what agile is or even knowing the difference between success and failure in agile. Agile transformation is a journey, and most of that journey consists of people learning and trying new approaches in their own work. An agile organization can make use of coaches and training to improve their chances of success. But even then, failure remains because many Agile ideas are oversimplifications or interpreted in an extreme way, and many elements essential for success are missing. Coupled with other ideas that have been dogmatically forced on teams, such as agile team rooms, and an overall inertia and resistance to change in the Agile community, the Agile movement is ripe for change since its birth twenty years ago. Agile 2 represents the work of fifteen experienced Agile experts, distilled into Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile by seven members of the team. Agile 2 values these pairs of attributes when properly balanced: thoughtfulness and prescription; outcomes and outputs, individuals and teams; business and technical understanding; individual empowerment and good leadership; adaptability and planning. With a new set of Agile principles to take Agile forward over the next 20 years, Agile 2 is applicable beyond software and hardware to all parts of an agile organization including Agile HR, Agile Finance, and so on. Like the original Agile, Agile 2, is just a set of ideas - powerful ideas. To undertake any endeavor, a single set of ideas is not enough. But a single set of ideas can be a powerful guide.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors vii Acknowledgments xi Foreword xv Preface xix 1 How Did We Get Here? 1 2 Specific Problems 21 3 Leadership: The Core Issue 49 4 Ingredients That Are Needed 69 5 Kinds of Leadership Needed 121 6 What Effective Collaboration Looks Like 157 7 It’s All About the Product 181 8 Product Design and Agile 2 191 9 Moving Fast Requires Real-Time Risk Management 205 10 A Transformation is a Journey 245 11 DevOps and Agile 2 275 12 Agile 2 at Scale 299 13 System Engineering and Agile 2 335 14 Agile 2 in Service Domains 363 15 Conclusion 383 Index 391

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Book SynopsisErica Stanford is a crypto and future of money expert. The founder and CEO of the UK's most recommended crypto networking and events organization, Crypto Curry Club, she publishes the weekly Crypto Currier industry newsletter as well as Blockchain Industry Review. The advisor to several crypto start-ups, she is an in-demand speaker and commentator on the potential and use cases of digital currencies. She is the guest associate lecturer in cryptocurrency at Warwick Business School and has featured in The Express, Finance News, Coin Rivet and on the BBC. She is based in London, England.Trade Review"An accessible guide to the confusing and fast-growing world of crypto scams. If you're thinking of investing in cryptocurrency, read this first!" * Jamie Bartlett, host of BBC podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen, author of The People Vs Tech, The Dark Net, Radicals and The Missing Cryptoqueen, presenter and journalist *"Crypto has proved the quickest get-rich scheme in all history. Unfortunately, the easiest people to rip off are those hoping to get rich quick, so scam after inevitable scam has preyed on the sector. Erica Stanford's page turner tells their bitter, but compelling stories." * Dominic Frisby, comedian, actor, MoneyWeek columnist and author of Daylight Robbery *"Erica Stanford covers everything that is oh so wrong and oh so right about the transformational world of cryptocurrencies. Prepare to laugh, cringe or be spooked. This book combines technology, business, mystery, fantasy and popular culture in a fascinating and enlightening way. And the best part: it's all true." * Anthony Day, Blockchain Partner, IBM, and host of Blockchain Won’t Save the World podcast *"Fascinating read on the boom days of crypto's Initial Coin Offerings, analysing the hype that threatened to overshadow the technology. Erica Stanford captures the mood and energy of the time in this greatly entertaining and insightful work." * Caroline Casey, Vice President, Innovation and Consumer Experience, Europe, Mastercard *"In what other book could you read about the biggest Ponzi schemes in the world, espionage, an $800 billion bubble, fake death, cryptoqueens, gambling and porn - literally 50 shades of the dodgiest grey with regulators and the FBI in hot pursuit? Erica Stanford brilliantly analyses the future of crypto in a world where the real future including security-backed tokens and CBDC's is only just beginning." * Bob Wigley, Chair UK Finance, Co-Chair, Cross Market Operational Resilience Group, Bank of England, Board Member, DIT and UK Home Office, NED, adjunct professor and author of Born Digital *"The is a marvellous romp through the crazy world of cryptocurrency and its wackier elements. But as well as the fun, we get a glimpse into what might one day give the global financial system a run for its money." * Mike Butcher MBE, Editor-at-Large, TechCrunch *"Crypto Wars is a fascinating and gripping account of human nature and its demons emerging from the frontiers of the crypto economy. It is mandatory reading for investors, regulators and builders of our financial future" * Lex Sokolin, fintech futurist and philosopher, Founder, The Fintech Blueprint, and Head Economist, ConsenSys *"This book is essential reading, especially for anyone thinking of dipping even their little toe into cryptocurrency." * Sara Vaughan, innovator and creator of global brands with purpose, positive change maker *"Erica Stanford takes readers through the complicated history of crypto hacks, scams and pump and dump schemes with such vivid detail and engaging narrative, you'll find it hard to put the book down." * Leslie Lamb, Head of Institutional Sales, Amber Group, and host of the Crypto Unstacked podcast *"As the market booms it's timely that someone has done justice to the extraordinary story of crypto - this unputdownable book captures the fun and the ups and the downs. It's a mesmeric read." * Charlie Kerrigan, Partner and Global Head of Fintech, CMS *"Erica Stanford's entertaining exploration of the world of scams, grifts, frauds and fantasies serves as a reminder that while on the one hand there is nothing new under the sun, on the other hand we have barely begun to understand the impact of cryptocurrency." * David Birch, author of The Currency Cold War and international adviser and commentator on digital financial services *

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Book SynopsisMaker Pro is a book of essays by more than a dozen prominent and up-and-coming professional makers (Maker Pros). Each essay includes advice and stories on topics such as starting a kit-making business, taking a hardware project open-source, and plenty of encouragement to "quit your day job."

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Book SynopsisBlending intellectual biography with an ambitious reappraisal of the 1960s, Anthony Chaney uses Gregory Bateson's life and work to explore the idea that a postmodern ecological consciousness is the true legacy of the decade.

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Book SynopsisTelevision, as both a technology and a tool for cultural storytelling, remains as important today as ever, but it has changed in fundamental ways. This edition addresses adjustments throughout the industry wrought by broadband delivered television such as Netflix, YouTube, and cross-platform initiatives like TV Everywhere.Trade ReviewIn thissecond edition, Lotz not only updates us on developments over the past seven years; she digs deeper and thinks harder about the revolutionary changes taking place in the television today. An outstanding contribution to television studies and an invaluable guide for students, scholars, and professionals. -- Michael Curtin,co-director, Media Industries ProjectTelevision is anything but dead, but we are now fully into the post-network era that Amanda D. Lotz projected when this book was first published. An incredibly prescient book, setting many of the terms through which television studies has understood these changes, the revised edition updates its account to reflect an age when Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon are now competing for Emmy and Peabody Awards, when television content is being funded through Kickstarter, and where web series are diversifying whose stories get told. -- Henry Jenkins,co-author of Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked CultureTable of ContentsContents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Understanding Television at the Beginning of the Post-Network Era 21 2 Television Outside the Box: The Technological Revolution of Television 53 3 Making Television: Changes in the Practices of Creating Television 95 4 Revolutionizing Distribution: Breaking Open the Network Bottleneck 131 5 The New Economics of Television 167 6 Recounting the Audience: Measurement in the Age of Broadband 207 7 Television Storytelling Possibilities at the Beginning of the PostNetwork Era: Five Cases 233 Conclusion: Still Watching Television 263 Notes 279 Selected Bibliography 307 Index 321 About the Author 331

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Book SynopsisIn The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of social innovation moments in American history. Through these momentsduring which social movements have embraced advances in communications technologieshe illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship between these technologies, social movements, and social change. Brescia shows that, almost without fail, developments in how we communicate shape social movements, just as those movements change the very technologies themselves.From the printing press to the television, social movements have leveraged communications technologies to advance change. In this moment of rapidly evolving communications, it''s imperative to assess the role that the Internet, mobile devices, and social media can play in promoting social justice. But first we must look to the past, to examples of movements throughout American history that successfully harnessed communications technology, thus facilitating pTrade ReviewBrescia offers an impressive overview of 'social innovation moments. in American history. The final result is a successful articulation of a progressive message. * Choice *[In] The Future of Change, Brescia provides a highly useful framework for future activists, one that enjoins them to embrace new technologies but not to presume their use alone to be sufficient to enact progressive change. * TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Medium 2. Network 3. Message 4. The Great Divide 5. Digital Organizing 6. Amending the Violence against Women Act 7. Marriage Equality in Maine 8. A Living Wage in Long Beach 9. Putting the Matrix to Work

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Book SynopsisThe Reindeer Botanist is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging the National Herbarium and making it a superb research centre.For nearly twenty years, Porsild studied reindeer activities in Alaska and the Northwest Territories as part of the Reindeer Project designed to encourage grazing animal husbandry among aboriginal peoples. He published extensively, and his meticulous research and observations have particular relevance today with the growing concern over global warming in the Arctic.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Beginnings; Canada's First Large Influx of Refugees; British Immigration Transforms the Colonies; Immigration in the MacDonald Era; The Sifton Years; Forging a New Immigration Policy; Immigration Doldrums; Immigration's Post-war Boom (1947-1957); Major New Initiatives; A New Era in Immigration; The Turbulent 1980s and Beyond; Developments in the Last Decade; Index.

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Book SynopsisUnlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. ""Gus""Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crewin a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance to walkon the moon and return to describe his journey. Others went in his place. Thestories of the moon walkers are familiar. Less appreciated are Grissom'scontributions.The international prestige of winning the Moon Race cannotbe understated, and Grissom played a pivotal and enduring role in securing thatlegacy for the United States. Indeed, Grissom was first and foremost a ColdWarrior, a member of the first group of Mercury astronauts whose goal it was tobeat the Soviet Union into space and eventually to the moon.Drawing on extensive interviews with fellow astronauts, NASA engineers, family members, and friends of Gus Grissom, George Leopold deliversa comprehensive and corrective account of Grissom’s life that places his careerin the context of the Cold War and the history of human spaceflight.Calculated Risk: TheSupersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom adds significantly to ourunderstanding of that tumultuous and ultimately triumphant period in American history.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Pure Oxygen 1. 1926 2. Work 3. Purdue 4. Wingman 5. Test Pilot 6. Mercury Seven 7. Extracurricular Activities 8. The Flight of Liberty Bell 7 9. Down a Peg 10. Apogee 11. Risk and Reward 12. How Astronauts Talk 13. Front of the Line 14. Death at 218 Feet 15. Abandon in Place Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContinued economic growth, human welfare, and national security depend upon constant technological progress; and the chief area for innovation in the coming years will be converging technologies, the synergistic combination of the "NBIC" fields: nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and new technologies based in cognitive science. The significance of convergence was initially recognized in the first National Science Foundation conference on the societal implications of nanotechnology in 2000, which reported that the newly developed ability to measure, manipulate, and organize matter on the nanoscale was revolutionizing science and technology. This volume will mark a major step forward, for three reasons: (1) Enough is understood about convergence now to permit serious consideration of governance issues and the likely human consequences. (2) Among the many convergence-related research projects, several in diverse areas have begun to deliver real results. (3) The network of NBIC researchers and analysts has developed to the point of being a real scientific and engineering community. One cross-cutting theme will be the ethical, legal, and social consequences of technological convergence. Another is the hunt for areas of remarkable research opportunities and the transforming tools required to take maximum advantage of them. Convergence will bring new approaches to what are currently diverse areas of research, such as converging technology platforms, physical and mental performance, human-machine interfaces, human cognition and communication, education and training, work efficiency, and many others. On their own, each of the NBIC technologies offers the potential for extraordinary advancement, but combined their potential is enormous and may provide revolutionary progress in human longevity, quality of life, learning, and productivity. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a memberTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Reality of Rapid Convergence. Part I: Perspectives on Convergence. 1. Progress in Governance of Converging Technologies (Mihail C. Roco). 2. Transformative Concepts in Scientific Convergence (William Sims Bainbridge). 3. Consillence and Convergence: The Ideas of E. O. Wilson (Ullica Segerstrale). 4. "Converging Technologies in Higher Education: A Paradigm for the “New” Liberal Arts?" (Robert T. Balmer). Part II: Nano-Bio-Info Technology. 5. Biomimetic Nanotechnology (Osamu Takai). 6. Signal-Transducing Proteins for Nanoelectronics (Fabio Pichierri). 7. The Case for Nanogeoscience (Michael F. Hochella, Jr). 8. Nano-bio Convergence at the Molecular Level (Chih-Ming Ho and Jia Ming Chen 9. Three Levels of Neuroelectronic Interfacing: Silicon Chips with Icon Channels, Nerve Cells and Brain Tissue: Peter Fromherz). Part III: Informatics for Convergence. 10. Designing Highly Flexible and Usable Cyberinfrastructures for Convergence (Bruce Herr, Weixia Huang, Shashikant Penumarthy, Katy Börner). 11. The Problem of Patent Thickets in Convergent Technologies (Gavin Clarkson and David DeKorte). Part IV: Cognitive Enhancement. 12. Converging Cognitive Enhancements (Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom). 13. Affective Computing: Bio-Info-Cogno Convergence (Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard). 14. Building Personal Maps from GPS Data (Lin Liao, Donald J. Patterson, Dieter Fox, and Henry Kautz). 15. Embodiment Awareness, Mathematics Discourse, and the Blind (Frances Quek and David McNeill). Part V: Social and Ethical Implications. 16. Nanotechnology and the Human Future: Policy, Ethics, and Risk (Nigel M. de S. Cameron). 17. Rethinking Enhancement in Sport (Andy Miah). 18. Justice, Fairness and Enhancement (Julian Savulescu). 19. Regulation: The Threat To Converging Technologies (Alan S. Ziegler). Appendices. APPENDEX I: Glossary of Convergence (The Editors). APPENDIX II: Annotated Convergence Bibliography (William Sims Bainbridge).

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Book SynopsisFor many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently introduced to the market have serious security flaws, and many are confusing and difficult to use. Moreover, legislation has not kept up with the constantly evolving voting technology, leaving little to no legal recourse when votes are improperly counted. How did we come to acquire the complex technology we now depend on to count votes? Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons probe this question, along with public policy and regulatory issues raised by our voting technologies. "Broken Ballots" is a thorough and incisive analysis of the current voting climate and it approaches American elections from technological, legal, and historical perspectives. The authors examine the ways Americans vote today, gauging how inaccurate, unreliable, and insecure our voting systems are. An important book for election administrators, political scientists, and students of government and technology policy, "Broken Ballots" is also a vital tool for any voting American.

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Book SynopsisA thorough update with more than 8,000 new definitions and entries. Covering everything in the upstream oil and gas sector, this new second edition also covers land, legal, accounting and finance terms. Written in easy-to-understand language with more than 100 illustrations, the second edition of Dr. Hyne's dictionary offers the ultimate reference book for anyone regardless of technical background.Table of Contents Rotary drilling rig Deviated well terminology Drawworks hoisting system Geological map symbols Horizontal well terminology Strategic column Rotary table Rotary drilling rig Wireline logging Beam pumping unit Blowout preventers Declined curve chart

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Book SynopsisBy any measure, Hans Mark was a warrior of the Cold War. Born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1929, he spent his early childhood in Vienna before escaping the Nazi Anschluss in 1938 and eventually emigrating to the United States, settling in New York. He graduated from high school in 1947, went west to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and later earned a PhD in physics from MIT. His work in nuclear engineering soon set him on a path that would be shaped by aeronautics, space exploration, and national defense. It was through advanced technology that Mark believed the United States could win the Cold War. In An Anxious Peace, Mark recounts in detail his life as a twentieth-century ""rocket man."" Here is the inside story of one who—in a career spanning more than six decades—was on the technological front line, from long-range bombers to the space shuttle. Along the way, Mark reveals many never-before-told stories from life at NASA and more. Readers will revel in learning the background behind the decision to place a plaque on Pioneer 10, a space probe that the NASA Ames Research Center designed to fly past the asteroid belt, Jupiter, and Saturn to collect data and images. Mark tells how he, Carl Sagan, and NASA insider John Naugle kept secret the addition of the now iconic 6x9-inch aluminum ""message from humanity"" until the probe had been launched. To this day Mark is pushing for a manned mission to Mars. One thing is sure: Hans Mark has left a major impact on academic and scientific communities that will be felt for decades to come.

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Book SynopsisManaging technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues have been a central focus of the new millennium. This book series presents an interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation and technological change in a global context from a variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioural, and policy issues. Papers selected in this volume have four prominent themes: the wide spread interests and the global application of the technological innovation; the practicality of the research on technological innovation implementation to foster success and financial growth; the socio-technical challenges behind innovation and creativity that might outweigh the benefits; and the new principles/practices/perspectives on our understanding of the technological innovation. Contributed by prominent scholars and practitioners from around the world in innovation, management and policy area, this book will become a very useful read for anyone who is interested in learning the most contemporary perspectives on the subject.

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Book SynopsisThere are many myths about Artificial Intelligence (AI) relating to what it is and what it can and cannot do. The people making decisions on AI projects are often not technologically savvy and unable to find easy answers. The spending on and the returns from AI projects are not necessarily straightforward. Part of the reason for this is the lack of understanding of the impact of critical decision criteria. AI touches on many ethical concepts - data privacy, validity, and, more importantly, its potential misuse. AI often replaces human decision-making, as managers do not clearly understand the implications of those choices. This book provides an easy and accessible guide for practitioners without a technological background to understand AI. It guides the reader through the fundamental issues confronting decision-makers. It offers advice on 'how to ask relevant questions' using the 15 decision scales. There is currently no comparable book on the market that acts as a pocketbook management reference guide for the AI layman.Table of Contents What is AI? AI Manager's Dilemma AI Smart Kit Scales Scale 1: AI Expertise Level Scale 2: AI Interoperability Level Scale 3: AI and Global Embeddedness Scale 4: AI Data Types Scale 5: AI Data Management Scale 6: AI and Human Teams Scale 7: AI and Human Productivity Scale 8: AI Onboarding Scale 9: AI and the Sensory Experience Scale 10: AI and the Human Interface Scale 11: AI and Regulations Scale 12: AI and IP Scale 13: AI and Impact on Sustainable Development Scale 14: AI and Accountability Scale 15: AI and Crises

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Book SynopsisThere are many myths about Artificial Intelligence (AI) relating to what it is and what it can and cannot do. The people making decisions on AI projects are often not technologically savvy and unable to find easy answers. The spending on and the returns from AI projects are not necessarily straightforward. Part of the reason for this is the lack of understanding of the impact of critical decision criteria. AI touches on many ethical concepts - data privacy, validity, and, more importantly, its potential misuse. AI often replaces human decision-making, as managers do not clearly understand the implications of those choices. This book provides an easy and accessible guide for practitioners without a technological background to understand AI. It guides the reader through the fundamental issues confronting decision-makers. It offers advice on 'how to ask relevant questions' using the 15 decision scales. There is currently no comparable book on the market that acts as a pocketbook management reference guide for the AI layman.Table of Contents What is AI? AI Manager's Dilemma AI Smart Kit Scales Scale 1: AI Expertise Level Scale 2: AI Interoperability Level Scale 3: AI and Global Embeddedness Scale 4: AI Data Types Scale 5: AI Data Management Scale 6: AI and Human Teams Scale 7: AI and Human Productivity Scale 8: AI Onboarding Scale 9: AI and the Sensory Experience Scale 10: AI and the Human Interface Scale 11: AI and Regulations Scale 12: AI and IP Scale 13: AI and Impact on Sustainable Development Scale 14: AI and Accountability Scale 15: AI and Crises

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Book SynopsisFrom the pages of Make: magazine comes this collection of dozens of projects you can make in your home or school workshop. You'll learn how to create toys and games from stuff you have lying around, create unusual and inspiring home improvements, and even find some new ways to have fun outdoors. You might even learn something along the way: electronics, flight, science, math, and engineering. In this book, you'll make: Batteries from everyday things Banana tattoos LED throwies Piezo contact microphone Paper water bomber Box fan beef jerky

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Book SynopsisArtificial Insemination of Farm Animals examines the process of insemination in detail starting from the key principles, key genetics and phenotypic parameters. Artificial insemination has several advantages like lower maintenance costs, prevention from spreading of diseases, etc. From the book, readers will also get exhaustive knowledge regarding management of farm animals after successful artificial insemination (during gestation and particular period). Also discussed in detail are current developments, success indicators and challenges of artificial insemination on farm animals.

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Book SynopsisSustainability in the Food Industry examines various aspects of food industry including an overview of agriculture and sustainability in supply chain and food industry. Food industry is a complicated, vast and diverse industry, supplying food all around the work for the sustenance of human lives. Provides the reader with insight into the strategies related to the industry’s sustainability, so as to understand the main agenda behind establishing a systematic framework for Quality, Safety and Sustainability in Food Industry.

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Book SynopsisIT Use In Supply Chain And Business Processes makes the readers familiar with the processes of supply chain and other related to the businesses and explains them the incorporation of it in these processes to enhance their effectivity. This book also discusses about the meaning of supply chain and business processes, the integration of technology in these processes and its need in supply chain management, the management of supply chain information, e-supply chain management and networking in supply chain management. It gives the readers the needed information on the use of IT in the supply chain processes and inform them about the various technologies that help in the process of supply chain.

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Book SynopsisPlant genetics has come a long way from the time Gregor Mendel observed the traits of his pea plants. This book provides a glimpse on the advancements in plant genetics, putting emphasis on the various sequencing technologies that were instrumental in unlocking the plant genome.The plant genome has also lent itself to manipulation and modification, contributing greatly to the body of genetic knowledge as well as producing economically-, nutritionally-, and medically-significant plants. This book compiles and describes these plant genetic engineering and genomic editing approaches.

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Book SynopsisThe introduction to engineering, and engineering as a profession is illustrated in this book. It throws light on the basics of mechanical engineering, engineering materials and their applications. It also discusses the engineering communications and ethics, along with the various applications of engineering across various fields.

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Book SynopsisForged at the heart of international political bodies by expert researchers, the innovation cluster concept has been incorporated into most public policies in industrialized countries. Based largely on the ideas behind the success of Silicon Valley, several imitative attempts have been made to geographically group laboratories, companies and training in particular fields in order to generate “synergies” between science and industry. In its first part, Innovation in Clusters analyzes the infatuation with the system of clusters that is integral to innovative policies by analyzing its socio historical context, its revival in management and its worldwide expansion, looking at a French example at a local level. In its second part, the book explores a specialized biotechnology cluster dating back to the end of the 1990s. The sociological survey conducted twenty years later sheds a different light on the dynamics and relationships between laboratories and companies, contradicting the commonly held belief that innovation is made possible by geographical proximity.Table of ContentsForeword ix Philippe BRUNET Introduction xiii Part 1 Persistence and Renewal of the Cluster Concept in Contemporary Innovation Policies 1 Chapter 1 From Industrial Districts to Knowledge Valleys: the Legacy of the Cluster 3 1.1 The industrial district: the oldest ancestor of the cluster 3 1.1.1 The economic approach of industrial atmosphere 3 1.1.2 The first Italian districts and their influence in France 5 1.1.3 The rise of districts: the end of the Fordist enterprise? 7 1.2 Spatial concentrations of technological activities 10 1.2.1 The time of technopoles: reconciling regional planning and innovation 10 1.2.2 A spontaneous and innovative environment conducive to a “technological atmosphere”? 13 1.2.3 The era of cognitive capitalism: the race for creativity of individuals and territories 15 1.3 The valleys of knowledge: interindividual relations as a source of innovation 17 1.3.1 Informal links in the heart of Silicon Valley 17 1.3.2 The relational logic essential to geographical proximity 19 1.3.3 Social capital as a driver of innovation 21 Chapter 2 The Management Roots of the Cluster and Its Worldwide Dissemination 25 2.1 An economic and management concept destined to become a public action mechanism 25 2.1.1 Porter’s cluster: the rapid spread of success stories 25 2.1.2 Knowledge management and its workers as a dominant paradigm 29 2.1.3 A theoretical and practical toolkit provided by researcher-experts in clustering 33 2.2 Global dissemination of good clustering practices 36 2.2.1 A paradigm born in the United States and forged at the heart of the OECD 36 2.2.2 To adopt OECD recommendations, or have them imposed? 38 2.2.3 The European Union, sponsor of the race to the knowledge economy 40 2.3 The French legislative framework from the 1980s to the 2010s: a favored coming together of science and industry 43 2.3.1 Researchers converted into entrepreneurs 44 2.3.2 The university: a link in the cluster supply chain 46 2.3.3 A cluster for every territory 49 Chapter 3 The Cluster Imaginary: Tools, Local Narrative and Promise 53 3.1 Performative instruments: benchmarking, territorial marketing, visual instrumentation 53 3.1.1 Benchmarking or territorial mimicry 54 3.1.2 Territorial marketing: asserting the cluster’s symbolic capital 55 3.1.3 Visual instrumentation: the image of a dense, expanding campus 57 3.2 The construction of a narrative 60 3.2.1 Evry, the French cradle of human genomics 60 3.2.2 Industrial renewal: the cluster as a solution to local economic development 62 3.2.3 The rhetoric of technological backwardness: overcoming French scientific slowness 63 3.3 Promises of innovation and employment at the territorial level 65 3.3.1 The promise of the biocluster: a sustainable environment and the medicine of the future 65 3.3.2 Becoming the capital of genobiomedicine, creating jobs for innovators 68 3.3.3 The naturalization of the cluster effect: an unquestionable concept? 71 Part 2 Prevented Synergies: the Case of a Biotechnology Cluster 75 Chapter 4 Networking Systems: Repeated but Hindered Initiatives 77 4.1 Scientific and industrial administration: establishing a recurrent event 77 4.1.1 The emergence of an intermediary figure: the cluster administrator 78 4.1.2 Networking and renewing acquaintances among cluster members through regular events 80 4.1.3 Fostering communities of practice: the creation of thematic bodies 83 4.2 Sharing a technology platform: mutualization or collaboration? 87 4.2.1 Resources as an intermediary: a policy of sharing expensive equipment 88 4.2.2 Platform usage: service provision before collaboration 91 4.2.3 Equipment demonstrations: connecting or making visible? 94 4.3 The institutionalization of conviviality: “la vie de site” 98 4.3.1 Bringing together and involving employees from different backgrounds 98 4.3.2 Building emotional and community connections through volunteering and sport 101 4.3.3 L’Escale, a space of sociability revealing professional hierarchies 103 Chapter 5 Scientific Competition and Economic Competition: Social Fields Spanned by Internal Struggles 107 5.1 Asynchronous organizations and work rhythms 107 5.1.1. Dissonant work schedules between companies and laboratories 108 5.1.2 Belonging to the large biotechnology family or disciplinary demarcation logics? 112 5.2 A scientific field built from struggle and precarity 114 5.2.1 A workforce that is becoming precarious 114 5.2.2 Scientific work destabilized and concealed by competition 117 5.2.3 Researchers and industrial collaboration: an unequal commitment 121 5.3 An unstable relationship between economic development and industrial secrets for companies 124 5.3.1 Individuals are increasingly encouraged to start a business to escape unemployment 124 5.3.2 The fragility of the male 30-something entrepreneur 127 5.3.3 Intense activity marked by the search for financing and competition 131 Chapter 6 The Avoided Cooperation 137 6.1 A patchy local network 137 6.1.1 What type of organizations for what type of interactions? 137 6.1.2 Scientific and market relations behind informal interindividual exchanges 141 6.1.3 More outwardly looking organizations 144 6.2 Cooperation prevented by paradoxical demands 146 6.2.1 Additional time pressure 147 6.2.2 A disembodied objective between prescribed program and real work 149 6.2.3 Loyalty and performance objectives towards the employer 152 6.3 Avoidance strategies 155 6.3.1 Avoiding scientific and technological issues 155 6.3.2 Cluster administrators: between belief and lucidity 158 Conclusion 161 References 165 Index 197

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Book SynopsisExploring how changes in advanced technology deeply affect international politics, this book theoretically engages with the overriding relevance of investments in technological research, and the ways in which they directly foster a country’s economic and military standing. Scholars and practitioners present important insights on the technical and social issues at the core of technology competition.Technology and International Relations emphasizes the importance of leadership styles, domestic political agendas and the relative weight of technologically driven countries in global affairs. It highlights the now widely shared belief among both developed and developing countries that technology will be the defining factor in international politics. The book also unpacks the complexity of real-life cases of key technological advances, including artificial intelligence, UAVs, satellites and the responses of governments and the private sector to rising technological challenges.This will be an important read for scholars of political science, international relations and international political economy, particularly those looking at the impact of technology and innovation.Trade Review‘The collective volume entitled Technology and International Relations: The New Frontier in Global Power reunites a group of specialists in contemporary technological developments with impact in international relations and addresses the topic of technology as source of empowerment in the near future global power starting from the recognition of the current paramount importance of technology in the exercise and concentration of power (and wealth) in our world.’ -- Henrieta Serban, Nordicum-Mediterraneum'The book provides a fresh view on the interdependencies between technology and international relations that could be useful far beyond the traditional domain of political science. It is a must-read for scholars interested in the cross-disciplinary aspects of the subject, including artificial intelligence, drones and critical information infrastructure.' -- Gianluca Pescaroli, University College London, UK‘Accessible and informative, Technology and International Relations achieves very well its main objective – to outline and analyse the technologies that are helping to shape the new international order.’ -- New Zealand International ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Technology and International Relations – The New Frontier in Global Power viii Giampiero Giacomello, Francesco Niccolò Moro and Marco Valigi PART I TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ETHICAL ASPECTS 1 Theorizing technology and international relations: prevailing perspectives and new horizons 3 Johan Eriksson and Lindy M. Newlove-Eriksson 2 Mapping technological innovation 23 Francesco Niccolò Moro and Marco Valigi 3 Autonomy in weapons systems and its meaningful human control: a differentiated and prudential approach 45 Daniele Amoroso and Guglielmo Tamburrini PART II ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FRONTIERS AND CHALLENGES 4 Context matters: the transformative nature of drones on the battlefield 68 Sarah Kreps and Sarah Maxey 5 Artificial intelligence: a paradigm shift in international law and politics? Autonomous weapon systems as a case study 89 Luigi Martino and Federica Merenda PART III SPACE AND CYBERSPACE: INTERSECTION OF TWO SECURITY DOMAINS 6 The use of space and satellites: problems and challenges 109 Luciano Anselmo 7 Cyber attacks and defenses: current capabilities and future trends 132 Michele Colajanni and Mirco Marchetti 8 Critical infrastructure protection 152 Andrea Locatelli 9 A perfect storm: privatization, public–private partnership and the security of critical infrastructure 173 Giampiero Giacomello Index 193

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Book SynopsisThe search for the key to economic growth has proved elusive and contentious. This book uses new empirical evidence to propose an integrated approach for achieving strong industrial and technological capabilities to form the basis for regional and national economic development.The authors use the experiences of countries in Europe and Latin America to show that socio-technical constituencies play a fundamental role in innovation based economic development at both a regional and national level. By blending insights from the industrial cluster and national innovation system approaches with the socio-technical constituencies approach, the authors successfully integrate long standing debates such as agency structure and micro-meso-macro analysis. The work is based both on a theoretical effort to build a new framework for economic growth, and on a number of concrete experiences from a number of countries in Europe and Latin America.Knowledge Flows in National Systems of Innovation will prove essential reading for scholars of innovation, technology and economic development.Table of ContentsContents: Prologue: Alfonso Molina 1. Introduction: The Meso-Foundations of National Innovation Systems Part I: Theoretical Contributions 2. National Systems of Innovation, Industrial Clusters and Constituency-building in Scotland’s Electronics Industry 3. Systems of Innovation, Knowledge and Networks Part II: Regional Industrial Clusters and Sociotechnical Constituencies in Europe and Latin America 4. Constituency-building in the Development of the City of Rome’s Telematics Strategy 5. The Role of the University in Constituency-building for Industrial and Territorial Innovation 6. University–enterprise Linkages in the Area of Biotechnology 7. The Role of the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Scientific and Productive Cluster in the Cuban Innovative Activity Part III: Policy Making for Constituency-building in Europe and Latin America 8. Policy Making for Constituency-building in Mexico 9. Industrial Policy of Providing Support to Clusters 10. Policies and Shared Values in the Promotion of Competitiveness Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this diversification with respect to firm size, technological relatedness and technological complexity in 32 firms distributed across four broadly defined industrial sectors.The findings suggest that industry and corporate technological profiles remain strong but are becoming blurred by the pervasiveness of general-purpose technologies. Although historically, diversification is associated with an increase in firm size, the author argues that in recent times it results from technological relatedness and complexity.This book will appeal to industrial and business economists, historians of business and technology, and students and scholars of technology management.Trade Review'This book is an important contribution to the field. It provides us with a clear definition of diversification, presenting all the dimensions that can justify the evolution of firms' technological positioning, an interesting theoretical proposition and a deep empirical analysis to support the argumentation. . . without any doubt this book is worth reading to have a clear presentation of a fascinating area of research.' -- Ludovic Dibiaggio, Technovation'Scholars working in the realm of technical change and firm technological strategies should read this book. Here they will find an authoritative work (over the period it covers) and will note the care it takes in unravelling industry and firm history.' -- Lionel Nesta, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'One of the longest-running debates in studies of economic and industrial organization concerns the advantages of specialization versus the advantages of diversification. Confusion over the nature of "diversification" has clouded this debate. By a long-term analysis of technological behaviour in large firms, Felicia Fai is able to bring fresh theoretical and empirical insights to this key question. Her work displays the virtues of looking beyond latest fads to the deeper structural characteristics and determinants of firm behaviour.' -- Nick von Tunzelmann, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Data 3. Industry-specific Competencies and Industrial Convergence 4. Technological Persistence in the Evolution of Corporate Technological Competence 5. Technological Diversification 6. Scale and Scope in Technology: Influences on Diversification 7. Technological Inter-relatedness and Complex Diversification 8. Conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book - informed by ten years' research - focuses on intellectual property and charts the global transition towards intellectual capitalism with technology-based corporations as prime movers. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the history and fundamentals of intellectual property as well as a textbook introduction to the field.The book sheds new light on the economics and management of intellectual property in large corporations in Europe, Japan and the US. Special emphasis is given to strategies for the acquisition and commercialization of new technologies, patent strategies and strategies for secrecy and trademark, technology intelligence and corporate management of intellectual property. It includes an in-depth study of leading large corporations in Japan - including Canon, Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony. In conclusion, it explores the possible evolution of intellectual property management towards a distributed intellectual capital management in the context of a wider transition to intellectual capitalism, fueled by new technologies in general and new infocom technologies in particular.The book will have particular appeal to practitioners such as managers, economists, engineers and lawyers as well as students and scholars of industrial organization, economics of innovation and technical change, and management of technology.Trade Review'It is recommended to managers, economists, engineers and lawyers and for the students and academics researching in the area.' -- The Computer Law and Security Report'. . . Professor Granstrand has achieved a lot in this volume. . . it contains a wealth of very useful material to feed graduate students, particularly those involved in industrial economics MBA courses and other postgraduate economics and management study, as well as offering a detailed look at the realities of IP management for professional managers and policymakers.' -- Christine Greenhalgh, The Economic Journal'As well as all the other fine things in this book, Professor Granstrand has given us a working vocabulary for the debate on these larger issues which is now getting under way, and I have no doubt that it will have wide influence, which it richly deserves.' -- W. Kingston, Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie'Throughout the book, [Granstrand] instructively compares and contrasts the management of intellectual property in the US, Japan and Europe. The first section, on the philosophy, history and economics of intellectual property, is very detailed and displays an excellent grasp of the many strands of literature on this subject. . . . Granstrand does an excellent job of organizing an immense quantity of material on intellectual property.' -- M. Perelman, Choice'Professor Ove Granstrand furnishes us with useful suggestions for effective intellectual property (IP) management using the detailed analysis of data and facts on the Japanese industries which have successfully developed since World War II. He repeatedly visited Japan and conducted many interviews with corporate IP experts and top management. This book is really informative for not only those interested in IP but also R&D leaders and those in top business management.' -- Akira Mifune, TheraTech Japan Inc., Japan'Ove Granstrand's book takes the reader into uncharted waters: the waters of an Intellectual Capitalism that promises to restructure the organization of economic life in the 21st century. In the course of his examination he shines the spotlight on recent developments in Japanese corporate capitalism that will prove to be highly illuminating to western readers.' -- Nathan Rosenberg, Stanford University, US'This insightful book analyzes developments in Japan, Sweden, and the United States to illuminate the increasing emphasis placed on intellectual property in corporate strategies.' -- F.M. Scherer, Harvard University and Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. From Intellectual Property to Intellectual Capitalism 2. Philosophy and History of Intellectual Property 3. Patents and Intellectual Property: A General Framework 4. The Technology-Based Firm: A General Framework 5. Japanese Patenting – An Overview 6. Technology and Commercialization Strategies 7. Intellectual Property Policies and Strategies 8. Intellectual Property Organization and Management 9. Analysis of Patent Information 10. Intellectual Capitalism and Beyond Index

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Book SynopsisThe interplay between demand from the market, the role of users in shaping that demand, and the way in which these factors influence the innovation process has always been a complex one. This forward thinking book examines this interplay from a technological change perspective.The contributors explore the potential for rapprochement between economics, sociological and other social science disciplines in considering the allocation of resources and the making of decisions about technological change. The papers within this book represent a judicious blend of theory and empirical research and look at a broad range of innovations, markets and technologies in medicine, agricultural and food production, services and IT. Technology and the Market raises the question of the many 'visible hands' that are involved in linking technology and the market together.This book is recommended to academics and policymakers interested in demand-innovation interaction, scholars of industrial economics and the sociology of technology as well as entrepreneurs.Understanding user needs is now seen as one of the most important factors in the success of innovation and one of the raisons d'être of market research. This book attempts to move the boundaries to show the importance of how demand is detected or constructed by innovators.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Many Visible Hands 3. Great Expectations: The Constructions of Markets, Products and User Needs During the Early Development of Gene Therapy in the USA 4. Reconceptualizing the User(s) of – and in – Technological Innovation: The Case of Vaccines in the United States 5. Inducement and Blocking Mechanisms in the Development of a New Industry: The Case of Renewable Energy Technology in Sweden 6. Shaping the Selection Environment: ‘Chlorine in the Dock’ 7. When Markets Meet Socio-politics: The Introduction of Chlorine-free Bleaching in the Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry 8. Internet Market Applications in Ship-broking: A Framework and Research Findings 9. Internet Entrepreneurship: Why Linux Might Beat Microsoft 10. Design in the IT Industry: The Role of Users 11. How Innovative are Users? A Critique of Learning-by-Doing and -Using 12. Taste as a Form of Adjustment between Food and Consumers 13. Services and Innovation: Demand-led Changes in Business Organizations 14. The Missing Link: Innovation and the Needs of Less-Developed Country Users Index

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Book SynopsisKorea has been at the centre of intense debate concerning the role of government in economic development. Taking an in-depth approach, this book analyses the path of Korea's industrial technology development. In contrast to many previous studies on Korea, the author argues that the role of foreign multinational enterprises has been significant while the government's was surprisingly limited in scope. The author addresses three main questions: How was Korea able to develop so effectively despite the low inflow of foreign technologies and capital? What is the role of multinational enterprises in 'teaching' technology to the firms from developing countries? What has been the influence of public policy on Korea's technology development? The author demonstrates that the key to the Korean electronics industry's spectacular growth has been through its participation in and learning from an inter-firm arrangement called 'original equipment manufacturing' (OEM) arrangement, and a number of firm-level case studies support this argument. This book will be of special interest to scholars of industrial and development economics, innovation and Asian studies. It will also be of use to policymakers responsible for industrial policy development.Trade Review'An erudite study of a dynamic issue, Technology Transfer and International Production is recommended for students of the Korean electronic industry and technological innovations.' -- The Midwest Book Review'This is the first book to comprehensively examine how OEM [Original Equipment Manufacturing] works in a major industrialising nation (South Korea). OEM is the main mechanism by which Korea and other East Asian countries entered markets and gained technology. It's remarkable that so few scholars, students and researchers have noticed this. At last, through detailed case analysis, we have an authoritative account on how OEM works, what the pitfalls are, how they can be avoided, and the limitations of government policy. This is essential reading for those concerned with contemporary economic development.' -- Mike Hobday, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Sanjaya Lall Preface 1. Introduction and Research Outline 2. Korea’s Technology Development and OEM Arrangement 3. OEM and Korea’s Electronics Industry 4. Empirical Research: Case Studies 5. Conclusions: Major Findings and Implications References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the significance of technological, organisational and institutional change as crucial factors in the analysis of the turnover time of capital. It also studies the related set of theoretical questions that concern the relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the context of capital accumulation and distribution.Michele Javary presents a creative and novel analysis of the ways in which these relationships can be analysed both conceptually and historically. She explores current issues relating to the dynamics of technical change, innovation, learning and institutional change by reviving and re-exploring one of the most penetrating contributions to economic thought: Marx's Capital. The author also combines historical and comparative perspectives to analyse the interplay between technology and organisations, based on the analysis of political governance in the United Kingdom and the rapid shift from coal to gas technologies at the time of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry. The analysis presented in the book elucidates many of the debates surrounding the economics of technological change and offers important new insights into both evolutionary and institutional economics. Students and scholars of industrial dynamics and technological change will find great value in the innovative analysis of the social and political factors that impact upon the selection, implementation and deployment of a new technology. Political economists and political scientists wishing to explore the significance of technology, organisations and institutions for capital accumulation and distribution will also be rewarded by this challenging book.Trade Review'Michele Javary takes on a major challenge in this book - the systematic analysis of the micro-foundations of capital and technological innovation in a way that takes into account the dynamics of the relationships between knowledge and time, power and knowledge, and power and time. Javary treats capital as a socio-economic phenomenon; one that is intimately linked to knowledge and to the scope of the options available for future economic development. She highlights the essential role of money-capital circulation time in forging the character of socio-economic institutions and their consequences for the selection of new technologies and for labour. Technological change in the electricity industry in the United Kingdom provides the historical material for a very insightful reinterpretation of the insights of Commons, Marx, Veblen, and others and of the implications of market liberalization. This book offers a new and much-needed understanding of the political-economy of technological change in modern times. This book should be required reading for all those with an interest in technological change, the management of innovation, and the organisation of the economy.' -- Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'This is a remarkable and highly original book. Not since Shackle has anyone made such an interesting study of the role of time in economics, and not since Marx has anyone tackled the question of the turnover time of capital in the context of political power, and the role of knowledge in relation to that power. Many books in economics are marginal in both senses of the word - they are in the marginalist neo-classical tradition, and they add little to the body of knowledge. This book is not marginal in either sense: it tackles some of the most fundamental questions in economic theory and it adds a great deal to our knowledge about them.' -- From the foreword by Christopher Freeman, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Power, Technology and Institutions in the Process of Capital Formation 3. A Critique of the Marxian Framework for the Analysis of Technology and Organization 4. Technology, Organization and the Turnover Time of Capital: The Transformational and Distributive Capacities of Socio-economic and Technical Systems 5. States and Markets Transformational and Distributive Capacity: Political Governance in the United Kingdom 6. Political Governance, Technology Selection and Endogenous Money: The Making of State-of-the-Art Technology in Electricity Generation 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe environmental imperative exerts strong pressure on polluting industries in the industrialised countries. Environmentally-friendly technologies are available but often at prohibitive costs. Using evidence from the copper industry, this book addresses the question of how polluting industries in developing and transition economies have responded to this challenge. Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative considers the extent of the success of polluting industries in becoming cost-efficient whilst acquiring less polluting technologies, in the face of fierce competition. The authors also discuss what has been the impact of privatisation on this process and what lessons have been learnt. Against this backdrop, and drawing on case material from Chile, China, Peru and Russia, the book goes on to assess the latest technological breakthroughs, and their possible future impact on cost efficiency and the environment.International organisations, policymakers and industry analysts concerned with environmental issues will find this book of great fascination as will academics and researchers in the fields of development studies, transition economies and environmental studies.Trade Review'I am confident that the book will be valuable to a broad range of readers - including those in public policy, in industry, and academics - interested in environmental studies, technological change, technology transfer, development economics and industrial economics.' -- John T. Scott, Journal of Technology TransferTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Economic Liberalization, Innovation, and Technology Transfer: Opportunities for Cleaner Production in Copper Mining and Processing 3. Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative in Chile: Challenges to the Largest Copper Producer in the World 4. Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative: The Case of Copper Smelting in China 5. From Nationalization to Re-Privatization of the Peruvian Copper Industry: Structural Changes and Impact on Environmental Sustainability 6. Growth, Competitiveness and Sustainability: Technological Change in the Russian Copper Industry 7. Flash Technology Facing the Challenges of the Third Millennium Index

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