Creative labour

working in the creative industries

Eds. Alan McKinlay, Chris Smith. This title presents a unique look at the labour processes that shape creative work and the issues surrounding creative labour, written by international experts. This is the first book to look at the Creative Industries from a labour process perspective ...

The innovator's prescription

a disruptive solution for health care

groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary. leader in innovation . . .. . Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.. . We need a cure ...

Cases in technological entrepreneurship

converting ideas into value

Ed. Claudio Petti; Preface by Aldo Romano. This book carries key cases and field insights by a group of distinguished contributors. It shows how government bodies, private investors and companies deal with the transformation of new ideas into value, from start-ups to incumbents. This book ...

Creating value through innovation

In open and dynamic markets, only innovation can give a firm a competitive advantage and with it the superior cash flows that generate value. Using analytical models, this timely book analyzes the conditions under which innovation strategy can create and maintain value, based on different ...

International knowledge and innovation netwokrs

knowledge creation and innovation in medium-techonology clusters

This book illustrates the distinct nature of innovation in medium technology industrial sectors, which are the key to European international competitiveness, and the recent changes of networks within regional clusters. It presents best-practice management and regional strategies, and an original and coherent theoretical framework for ...

Industrial policy and developement

the political economy of Capabilities Accumulation

Eds. Mario Cimoli, Giovanni Dosi, Joseph E. Stiglitz. In the 1990s, development policy advocated by international financial institutions was influenced by Washington Consensus thinking. This strategy, based largely on liberalization, privatization, and price-flexibility, downplayed, if not disregarded, the role of government in steering the processes ...

Efficiency, market dynamics and industry growth

The dynamics of industry growth, technology and globalization have a dramatic impact on the current economic growth of nations, significantly changing the market structure and world trade, and challenging the competitive equilibrium and their guiding principles. In the world of innovations and spill-over of R&D effects, various forms of non- competitive market structures have evolved in recent times. This book analyzes the new paradigm of change in technology intensive industries, with an emphasis in three main areas; ...

Wired for innovation

how information technology is reshaping the economy

Starting in 1995, productivity growth took off in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created the lion's share of this productivity surge, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that ...

Factor 5

transforming the global economy through 80% improvements in resource productivity

The book tackles sustainable development and climate change by providing in depth Factor 5 resource productivity studies of the following sectors: Buildings, Industry, Agriculture, Food and Hospitality, and Transportation. In its systematic approach to demonstrating how Factor 5 can be achieved, the book also provides ...

Market rebels

how activist make or break radical innovations

Great individuals are assumed to cause the success of radical innovations--thus Henry Ford is depicted as the one who established the automobile industry in America. Hayagreeva Rao tells a different story, one that will change the way you think about markets forever. He explains how ...

Power, politics and pharmaceuticals

Central questions that are explored include: What are the implications for health of existing systems of pharmaceutical drug regulation? And, what do existing systems of drug regulation reveal the power of transnational pharmaceutical corporations to shape regulatory and other policies? The importance attached to considering ...

Beyond the Carbon Economy

Energy Law in Transition

The present energy economy, with its heavy dependence on fossil fuels, is not sustainable over the medium to long term for many interconnected reasons. Climate change is now recognized as posing a serious threat. Energy and resource decisions involving the carbon fuels therefore play a ...

The politics of high-tech growth

developmental network states in the global economy

This book argues that beneath the Irish trade and foreign investment boom lies a more interesting story of regional innovation promoted by an alliance between the state and local technical communities. This alliance was governed through a decentralized set of state institutions, drawing on 'global ...

The inside story of China's high-tech industry

making Silicon Valley in Beijing

In the 1980s China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergence and growth of this industry through an ...

The digital economy

business organization, production processes and regional developments

Information technologies (IT) shape economic space, but we have no clear map of the cyber economy since the "digital revolution" began in the early 1970s. "The Digital Economy" offers an up-to-date, critical synthesis that links the various aspects of the digital or cyber economy from ...

La televisión pública en Europa

La televisión pública europea forma parte del Estado de bienestar y se incluye dentro de una concepción amplia de las políticas culturales y educativas. Desde su aparición, ha actuado como elemento socializador y de cohesión mediante el triple monopolio en la producción, la distribución y ...

Una semana sin televisión en el siglo XXI

Recoge los resultados del interesante experimento llevado a cabo con un grupo de estudiantes de Comunicación Audiovisual sometidos voluntariamente a una semana sin televisión. Su objetivo es conocer la repercusión que tiene sobre un grupo de jóvenes la privación voluntaria de un medio de comunicación ...

La televisión pública desde dentro

Guía para conducirse con éxito por el intrincado camino de la comunicación audiovisual profesional, con capítulos sobre prehistoria e historia de la comunicación, programación de televisión, los oficios relacionados con toda la actividad televisiva, estudio de audiencias y deontología profesional.

System innovation for sustainability. T.1

Perspectives on radical changes to sustainable consumption and production

Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) was adopted as a priority area during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 and has since become one of the main vehicles for targeting international sustainability policy. Sustainable consumption focuses on formulating equitable strategies that foster ...

Knowledge policy

challenges for the 21st century

"Knowledge Policy" illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and social knowledge unimportant ...