Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation series is our home for comprehensive yet accessible texts on the current thinking in the field. These cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections bring together robust theories from a wide range of individual disciplines and provide in-depth studies of existing and emerging approaches to innovation, and the implications of such for the global economy.
The Economics of Digital Transformation: The Disruption of Markets, Production, Consumption, and Work
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Śledziewska, Renata Włoch
May 31, 2023
The unprecedented Covid-19 crisis revealed the scale and scope of a new type of economy taking shape in front of our very eyes: the digital economy. This book presents a concise theoretical and conceptual framework for a more nuanced analysis of the economic and sociological impacts of the ...
The Political Economy of Digital Ecosystems: Scenario Planning for Alternative Futures
1st Edition
By Meelis Kitsing
May 31, 2023
This book connects political economy perspectives with scenario planning for mapping out future trajectories of digital ecosystems. The focus is purposefully on digital ecosystems as it encompasses economic, political and social contexts on a global, national and local level. The diversity of ...
Robot Ethics and the Innovation Economy
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
January 09, 2023
This book provides an authoritative resource on the topic of intelligent robots, artificial intelligence and the ethical implications of these revolutionary innovations. It examines the moral and ethical problems that arise in relation to the development, design and use of intelligent robots, which...
The Co-creative University: Evaluation, Expectations and Economic Policy Implications
1st Edition
By Łukasz Mamica
January 09, 2023
The co-creative university has become the main driver of social and economic development stimulating internal (students and academics) and external creativity (companies and institutional environment) as well as cooperation in various areas (e.g. applied graduation theses, research projects, ...
Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered
1st Edition
By Cecilia Rikap
September 26, 2022
In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies. The book’s unique perspective focuses on how private ownership and control of knowledge and data have become a major source of rent and power. The author explains how at the one pole, these ...
Artificial Intelligence, Automation and the Future of Competence at Work
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen
August 01, 2022
Artificial intelligence and the autonomous robots of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will render certain jobs and competences obsolete but will also create new roles, which in turn require new sets of skills. They will also transform how we produce, distribute and consume, as well as how we think....
The Political Economy of Digital Automation: Measuring its Impact on Productivity, Economic Growth, and Consumption
1st Edition
By Sreenath Majumder, Anuradha SenGupta
April 29, 2022
With digital automation becoming ubiquitous, the relationship between man and machine is being redefined. This book, through a focus on America, identifies the tension this relationship has produced, and how it has divided America socially, politically, and economically, ultimately breeding two ...
Automation, Innovation and Work: The Impact of Technological, Economic, and Social Singularity
1st Edition
By Jon-Arild Johannessen, Helene Sætersdal
September 30, 2021
Artificial intelligence will not necessarily create a super-intelligent “human robot”; however, it is very probable that intelligent robots and intelligent informats will bring about a form of super-globalization, in which money and goods are prioritized over people and democracy and where the ...
The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Business and Society: Digital Transformation and the Rise of Platform Businesses
1st Edition
Edited
By Abbas Strømmen-Bakhtiar, Evgueni Vinogradov
September 30, 2021
The emergence of new platform business models, notably the sharing economy, is impacting the economy in various ways, altering the structure of many industries, and raising a number of economic and political issues.This book investigates the widespread influence of the sharing economy on businesses...
Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Business Services: The Digital Era
1st Edition
By Anna Cabigiosu
June 30, 2021
Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are becoming more and more relevant both for their innovative content and as innovation boosters for manufacturing firms and, with this scenario in mind, this book first offers an in-depth analysis of what innovation in KIBS is and its performance ...
The Dynamics of Local Innovation Systems: Structures, Networks and Processes
1st Edition
By Eva Panetti
December 18, 2020
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the dynamics underpinning the successful performance of local innovation systems (LIS), that is, spatial concentration of innovation activities in specific geographical areas, characterized by the synergetic co-localization of research centers,...
Economics of an Innovation System: Inside and Outside the Black Box
1st Edition
By Tsutomu Harada
September 30, 2020
Existing literature looks at national innovation systems from the perspective of either "inside the black box" or "outside the black box". This is the first book that analyzes both the inside and outside of the black box using a general equilibrium framework. The book looks at what is outside the ...