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How To Benefit From Emerging TechnologiesFrom the daggers and axes of the cavemen societies to today's spacecraft, self-driving cars, metaverses, and AI-filled societies, technology has significantly emerged and brought about a massive transformation to our lives. The pace of this innovation has been particularly colossal in this industrial era, continuously disrupting our lives. Where will this imminent tech take us in the future?This book will dissect how various aspects of our lives will be transformed in the years to come, with a particular focus on how to benefit from these emerging technologies. You will gain a 360 degree view by getting a historical perspective of technology because discussions about the future are seldom complete without history.The ongoing debate on whether technology will replace our jobs is causing great panic. However, failure to catch up to technology is guaranteed to be catastrophic. This book will provide a freight of the latest tech-driven trends to equip everyone to face the future, like a one-time software upgrade.Whether you are a student, a fresh graduate, a bewildered parent, or a tech enthusiast, this book offers everything you need to be ahead of the game. It will also help budding entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate professionals identify opportunities to incorporate the right tech into their businesses and be at the forefront of innovation.

Innovation is generally viewed as something inherently good, a source of progress and prosperity in our society. But innovation can also have negative, unintended, and wasteful effects, if policies are misdirected and organizations pursue innovation to look good and convey a message, rather than to actually achieve improvements of technologies, services, and products. This book makes the case that innovation has become a buzzword, a political cure-all, and increasingly an empty phrase, and that this has become detrimental to innovation itself.Governmental (and supra-governmental) innovation policy is often unrealistically phrased and shaped, and corporate innovation projects are not seldom meaningless acts of window-dressing. The book describes the problems this presents for society, organizations, and individuals, and seeks explanations for why it has come to be this way. Giving way to a more realistic view of what innovation really is, and how it can beaccomplished, the book develops a multifaceted sociological and historical argument where several complementary reasons for the prevalence of “empty innovation” are proposed. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and all those with an interest in the failures of current innovation strategies.This is an open access book.

Our current situation, marked simultaneously by the Anthropocene, global warming, digitization and exponential artificial intelligence, leads us to sudden and total change in global civilization and, de facto, to rebuilding the foundations of the international economy. Innovation Ecosystems explores the risks and opportunities facing the contemporary world by analyzing, comparing and categorizing the world's most dynamic innovation ecosystems by region and city. This includes the identification of key characteristics – common or original – and learning from them in terms of culture, management, system and structure, in order to meet current challenges and think about civilizations of the future.

The Socialist Register has been at the forefront of intellectual enquiry and strategic debate on the left for five decades. This expertly curated collection analyzes technological innovation against the backdrop of the recurrent crises and forms of class struggle distinctive to capitalism.As we enter what some term the'fourth industrial revolution'and both mainstream commentators and the left grapple with the implications of rapid technological development, this volume is a timely and crucial resource for those looking to build a political strategy attentive to sweeping changes in how we produce goods and live our lives.

A lo largo de 15 capítulos el libro estudia los cambios tecnológicos desde la perspectiva de los países en desarrollo para advertir y transmitir la necesidad que los Estados tienen de responder a las repercusiones traídas por las nuevas tecnologías como el desempleo a causa de reemplazo de la mano de obra humana por maquinaria o los peligros que trae el avance de tecnologías de armamento. Por otro lado, explica conceptos importantes como el de tecnología exponencial, robótica y nanotecnología, además de enfatizar problemas ambientales y el papel que tienen las industrias energéticas y productoras de dichos dispositivos en masa, responsables de daños al medio ambiente.

While artificial intelligence (AI), robots, bio-technologies and digital media are transforming work, culture, and social life, there is little understanding of or agreement about the scope and significance of this change. This new interpretation of the ‘great transformation'uses history and evolutionary theory to highlight the momentous shift in human consciousness taking place. Only by learning from recent crises and rejecting technological determinism will governments and communities redesign social arrangements that ensure we all benefit from the new and emerging technologies. The book documents the transformations under way in financial markets, entertainment, and medicine, affecting all aspects of work and social life. It draws on historical sociology and co-evolutionary theory arguing that the radical evolution of human consciousness and social life now under way is comparable with, if not greater than, the agrarian revolution (10000 BCE), the explosion of science, philosophy, and religion in the Axial Age (600 BCE), and the recent Industrial Revolution. Turning to recent major socio-economic crisis, and asking what can be learnt from them, the answer is we cannot afford this time around to repeat the failures of elites and theoretical systems such as economics to attend appropriately to radical change. We need to think beyond the constraints of determinist and reductionist explanations and embrace the idea of deep freedom. This book will appeal to educators, social scientists, policy-makers, business leaders, and students. It concludes with social design principles that can inform deliberative processes and new social arrangements that ensure everyone benefits from the affordances of the new and emerging technologies.

Aujourd'hui la créativité des communautés est une source puissante d'idées innovantes pour les entreprises. Dans cet ouvrage nous décrivons le rôle de plus en plus primordial que jouent les communautés dans le processus d'innovation des entreprises et la manière dont celles-ci peuvent en tirer avantage. Nombre de dirigeants ont bien intégré l'intérêt à s'ouvrir à de nouvelles approches pour nourrir une dynamique d'innovation. Cependant les pratiques traditionnelles ne leur garantissent pas d'accéder au réservoir créatif des communautés. Le manager doit agir comme un jardinier qui fertilise le terreau pour que la communauté s'épanouisse, sans pouvoir la diriger comme un capitaine aux commandes de son navire. Il doit utiliser de nouvelles méthodes de management que nous décrivons ici. Nous expliquons d'abord la dynamique des communautés d'innovation. Ensuite nous exposons 11 cas d'entreprises ou d'organisations qui ont réussi à développer leur capacité d'innovation et à augmenter leur performance grâce à l'apport créatif des communautés. Enfin, nous en tirons une démarche opérationnelle que les managers peuvent utiliser pour collaborer avec les communautés d'innovation. Nous avons rassemblé les contributions de chercheurs, spécialistes des questions d'innovation, de professionnels, pratiquant l'innovation au quotidien, ainsi que de consultants, accompagnant les organisations dans la réflexion puis dans la mise en place de nouvelles pratiques. Nous nous adressons tout autant aux dirigeants et aux managers travaillant sur les questions d'innovation, qu'aux enseignants-chercheurs et aux étudiants des filières économiques et de gestion.

This book focuses on the notion of “vintage innovation” and its application in various old technology-based communities of practice. Some communities of practice resist and react to technological change by adopting new technological products (“vintage products”) that extend the lifetime of their old, favored products and practices. There are a number of potential reasons for such strategic reactions, which are analyzed by the author. The book opens by reviewing the nature of technological change. Old technology-based communities of practice and their typical reactions to technological change are then discussed, and the concept of vintage innovation, introduced and explained. The book presents four case studies of communities of users in which vintage innovation emerged: analog photographers, radio amateurs, arcade videogame players, and disc jockeys.​

Increasingly, researchers and policymakers alike recognize that innovations are generated by complex and dynamic national ecosystems that include government, industry, universities and schools. Because these systems differ by country and are strongly influenced by culture, effective policy and research strategies require a systems approach, in which policy consensus is built on a clear understanding of how each nation's innovation ecosystem functions.This book outlines a unique methodology for constructing visual maps of national innovation ecosystems. The authors provide completed maps for six countries (Israel, Poland, Germany, France, Spain and Singapore), and two regions (Greater Toronto and ZhiangJiang Technology Park in Shanghai), along with detailed breakdowns of the policy implications emerging from each. These in-depth examples and a clear methodological approach offer a comprehensive guide for constructing visual portrayals of innovation systems and demonstrate why this is a vital exercise.Scholars and students of innovation and management will find this book an invaluable resource, as will innovation policymakers across the world.Contents: 1. Towards national innovation system 2. Method for mapping innovation ecosystems 3. The Israeli national innovation ecosystem 4. The Polish national innovation ecosystem 5. The German national innovation ecosystem 6. The French national innovation ecosystem 7. The Spanish national innovation ecosystem 8. The health industry innovation ecosystem in the of Ontario, Canada 9. The innovation ecosystem in Shanghai, China 10. The Singaporian national innovation ecosystem 11. Conclusion: A Comparison of national & regional innovation ecosystems Epilog: Systems mindset as foundations for policy References Index