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Author : Stan Majoor
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : City dwellers
ISBN : 9789059722385
In this study the focus is on the innovative aspiration evident in some of the latest generation of projects, to create a mixed-use economic and urban area.
Author : Charlie Karlsson,Börje Johansson,Roger Stough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136619519
In the last four decades the developed economies have developed into veritable knowledge economies at the same time as more and more economies have entered the road to economic development. Typical for the developments during this time has been substantially increased investments in research and development (R&D) to generate new knowledge and new technologies and increased investments in diffusing existing knowledge by means of education and thereby raising the volume of human capital. However, many member states and regions within the EU are struggling with their economic development. This book explores the uneven patterns of development within the EU, discusses the relative effect of investments on innovation and productivity growth and looks at the mechanisms involved in economic development and policy.
Author : Alain Bui,Marc Bui,Thomas Böhme,Herwig Unger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540339748
Thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Innovative Internet Community Systems, IICS 2005, held in Paris, France, in June 2005. The 17 revised full papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They mainly address system-oriented problems, content and text processing, and theoretical foundations of quality-of-service problems of Internet protocols, aspects of cooperation and collaboration in Internet systems, as well as agent and text-processing-based methods.
Author : Marco Magnani
Publisher : EGEA spa
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788823887718
Despite its excesses and contradictions, globalization has lifted billions of people out of poverty, enabled scientific progress, and reduced conflict. Nevertheless, globalization is going through a deep crisis. Marco Magnani identifies four forces that are fueling the «great disconnect»: economic and technological trends are reshaping global value chains; do-mestic political dynamics are fostering closures in an attempt to protect national interests; external shocks (pandemics, wars, financial crises) are exposing the vulnerability of the global system; geopolitical objectives are encouraging to restrict relations to countries perceived as friends. In such a scenario, politics prevails over economics, regionalization increases, and the instability of international alliances soars, partly due to the proliferation of «free agent» countries seeking strategic autonomy. Fragmentation has high economic costs and it increases the risk of conflict. But it may also trigger a new globalization trend. The Arctic, the Under-water, Space and the Digital Revolution can be fronts of competition and dispute, or they can represent the new frontiers of cooperation. The world to come will largely depend on the ability of liberal democracies to defend and promote their values, abroad and at home. The hope is that the revival in the circulation of goods, services, capital, people and knowledge will consolidate rights and spread freedoms.
Author : Herwig Unger,Thomas Boehme,Armin Mikler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540437901
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second international workshop on Innovative Internet Computing Systems, IICS 2002, held in Kühlungsborn, Germany, in June 2002. The 19 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from over 30 submissions. Among the topics addressed are large-scale distributed computing infrastructures presenting new challenges to information and Web technology, the management and retrieval of web-based information, content classification, web-based communities management, structure and retrieval of information from large distributed data bases, and the representation of the distributed nature of information by means of graph-theoretical models.
Author : Roberta Cucca,Costanzo Ranci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317419419
This seminal edited collection examines the impact of austerity and economic crisis on European cities. Whilst on the one hand the struggle for competitiveness has induced many European cities to invest in economic performance and attractiveness, on the other, national expenditure cuts and dominant neo-liberal paradigms have led many to retrench public intervention aimed at preserving social protection and inclusion. The impact of these transformations on social and spatial inequalities – whether occupational structures, housing solutions or working conditions – as well as on urban policy addressing these issues is traced in this exemplary piece of comparative analysis grounded in original research. Unequal Cities links existing theories and debates with newer discussions on the crisis to develop a typology of possible orientations of local government towards economic development and social cohesion. In the process, it describes the challenges and tensions facing six large European cities, representative of a variety of welfare regimes in Western Europe: Barcelona, Copenhagen, Lyon, Manchester, Milan, and Munich. It seeks to answer such key questions as: What social groups are most affected by recent urban transformations and what are the social and spatial impacts? What are the main institutional factors influencing how cities have dealt with the challenges facing them? How have local political agendas articulated the issues and what influence is still exerted by national policy? Grounded in an original urban policy analysis of the post-industrial city in Europe, the book will appeal to a wide range of social science researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students in urban studies, social policy, sociology, human geography, European studies and business studies, both in Europe and internationally.
Author : Wang, Victor X.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781605667409
Provides an authoritative reference collection on leading international insights into the integration of technology tools and applications with adult and vocational instruction.
Author : Mark Dodgson,David M. Gann,Nelson Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199694945
While innovation is widely recognised as being critical to organisational success and the well-being of societies, it requires careful management to ensure that innovation processes have the best possible impact. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the nature of innovation management and its influences.
Author : Ilene Grabel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262344050
An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis. In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis had little effect on global financial governance and developmental finance. Most observers discount all but grand, systemic ruptures in institutions and policy. Grabel argues instead that the global crisis induced inconsistent and ad hoc discontinuities in global financial governance and developmental finance that are now having profound effects on emerging market and developing economies. Grabel's chief normative claim is that the resulting incoherence in global financial governance is productive rather than debilitating. In the age of productive incoherence, a more complex, dense, fragmented, and pluripolar form of global financial governance is expanding possibilities for policy and institutional experimentation, policy space for economic and human development, financial stability and resilience, and financial inclusion. Grabel draws on key theoretical commitments of Albert Hirschman to cement the case for the productivity of incoherence. Inspired by Hirschman, Grabel demonstrates that meaningful change often emerges from disconnected, erratic, experimental, and inconsistent adjustments in institutions and policies as actors pragmatically manage in an evolving world. Grabel substantiates her claims with empirically rich case studies that explore the effects of recent crises on networks of financial governance (such as the G-20); transformations within the IMF; institutional innovations in liquidity support and project finance from the national to the transregional levels; and the “rebranding” of capital controls. Grabel concludes with a careful examination of the opportunities and risks associated with the evolutionary transformations underway.
Author : Max Mckeown
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780273719137
The Truth About Innovation transforms today's most important innovation research into 50 proven ""truths"". Max Mckeown delivers plain, powerful advice on how to:increase creativity encourage collaboration co-create with customers overcome indifference make ideas into money thrive on change ... and much more. This is the definitive, evidence-based guide to innovations - a set of bedrock principles you can rely on, regardless of your organization, role or title. Drawing on over 15 years of the author's research, consulting, training and writing experience, it can transform the way you manage inno
Author : Prith Banerjee, Ph.D.
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798885053167
Even though a quarter of a century has passed since Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma was first published, business leaders still find themselves confronted with the same problem. A profound disconnect too often exists between innovation development and business outcomes. Companies say they want the stimulus of innovation and even handsomely fund their in-house R&D. Yet when it comes time for a call to action, such as launching a new product or service, they often back away from the risk. Sadly, the American corporation's decision makers all too often decide to play it safe, and the innovation doesn't go into play at all. In my thirty-five-year technology career, from academia, to my own start-ups, and to managing innovation in enterprise environments, I have encountered many large companies who have R&D collaborations with academia and with start-ups. Open innovation with academia and start-ups, the focal point of this book, is not new. Unfortunately, many of these collaborations do not result in true innovation. My book explores the ingredients of the secret sauce required to generate successful open innovation. The Innovation Factory provides essential, practical guidance for all parties wishing to work toward successful collaborations that achieve innovation in its many aspects. Perhaps you have already launched some partnerships; if so, this book will help both of you make them more successful. Whether you have or have not, this is the only book you need to launch and partner in open innovation initiatives.
Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This report (literature review) provides an overview of academic writing on the role IP has played in innovation policy-making over the last two decades.
Author : Robert W. McChesney
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781595588913
Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world. McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect McChesney returns to this provocative thesis in light of the advances of the digital age, incorporating capitalism into the heart of his analysis. He argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems, and other policies and massive indirect subsidies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism. A small handful of monopolies now dominate the political economy, from Google, which garners an astonishing 97 percent share of the mobile search market, to Microsoft, whose operating system is used by over 90 percent of the world's computers. This capitalistic colonization of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism, and made the Internet an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance, and a disturbingly anti-democratic force. In Digital Disconnect Robert McChesney offers a groundbreaking analysis and critique of the Internet, urging us to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we still can.
Author : David Lane,Denise Pumain,Sander Ernst van der Leeuw,Geoffrey West
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402096631
Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. Most work prefers to study its context and its consequences. As a result, we are as a society, lacking the scientific tools to understand, improve or otherwise impact on the processes of invention and innovation. This book delves deeply into that topic, taking the position that the complex systems approach, with its emphasis on ‘emergence’, is better suited than our traditional approach to the phenomenon. In a collection of very coherent papers, which are the result of an EU-funded four year international research team’s effort, it addresses various aspect of the topic from different disciplinary angles. One of the main emphases is the need, in the social sciences, to move away from neo-darwinist ‘population thinking’ to ‘organization thinking’ if we want to understand social evolution. Another main emphasis is on developing a generative approach to invention and innovation, looking in detail at the contexts within which invention and innovation occur, and how these contexts impact on the chances for success or failure. Throughout, the book is infused with interesting new insights, but also presents several well-elaborated case studies that connect the ideas with a substantive body of ‘real world’ information.
Author : Mohamed Anis Bach Tobji,Rim Jallouli,Ahmed Samet,Mourad Touzani,Vasile Alecsandru Strat,Paul Pocatilu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030646424
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference, ICDEc 2020, held in Bucharest, Romania, in June 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference took place virtually. The 13 full papers presented in this volume together with 3 abstracts of keynotes and 1 introductory paper by the steering committee were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 41 submissions. The core theme of this year’s conference was “Emerging Technologies & Business Innovation”. The papers were organized in four topical sections named: digital transformation, data analytics, digital marketing, and digital business models.