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The Sociology of Scientific Work
Dominique Vinck
More than ever before, science and technology play a significant role in modern society as evidenced by the development of nanotechnologies and the controversies surrounding GMOs and climate change. This book comprehensively explores the...eBook:Find out more$51.96
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Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies
Edited by Matthew Rimmer, Alison McLennan
This unique and comprehensive collection investigates the challenges posed to intellectual property by recent paradigm shifts in biology. It explores the legal ramifications of emerging technologies, such as genomics, synthetic biology, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regulation and the Performance of Communication and Information Networks
Edited by Gerald R. Faulhaber, Gary Madden, Jeffrey Petchey
Digital markets worldwide are in rapid flux. The Internet and World Wide Web have traditionally evolved in a largely deregulated environment, but recently governments have shown great interest in this rapidly developing sector and are im...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The New Knowledge Workers
Dariusz Jemielniak
This critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as mo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities
Edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis, Francisco Javier Carrillo
This unique book reveals the procedural aspects of knowledge-based urban planning, development and assessment. Concentrating on major knowledge city building processes, and providing state-of-the-art experiences and perspectives, this im...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Foundations of the Knowledge Economy
Edited by Knut Ingar Westeren
This book presents new evidence concerning the influential role of context and institutions on the relations between knowledge, innovation, clusters and learning. From a truly international perspective, the expert contributors capture t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Second Tier Regions
Heike Mayer
Second tier high-tech regions are taking a different path than their well-known counterparts such as Silicon Valley or Route 128 around Boston. They may lack many prerequisites of growth such as a world-class research university or high ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2012
Zoltán J. Ács, László Szerb
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the aut...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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User-based Innovation in Services
Edited by Jon Sundbo, Marja Toivonen
This book demonstrates pioneering work on user-based service innovation using an analytical framework. This approach involves understanding the needs of users, the service firms collaborating with them, and recognising the fact that user...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Biotechnology and Innovation Systems
Edited by Bo Göransson, Carl Magnus Pålsson
This book explores how policies targeting public research institutions, such as universities, contribute to the appropriation of biotechnology through national innovation systems.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Improving Energy Efficiency through Technology
Edited by Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Henri L.F. de Groot, Peter Mulder
This innovative book explores the adoption of energy-saving technologies and their impact on energy efficiency improvements. It contains a mix of theoretical and empirical contributions, and combines and compares economic and physical in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Academic Entrepreneurship in Asia
Edited by Poh Kam Wong
This timely book examines the rising phenomenon of academic entrepreneurship and technology commercialization among leading universities in Asia, by presenting in-depth analysis of thirteen leading universities from nine Asian economies,...eBook:Find out more$40.00