The Routledge handbook of smart technologies : an economic and social perspective
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The Routledge handbook of smart technologies : an economic and social perspective
(Routledge international handbooks)
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This handbook provides an overview of research related to smart technologies and how they permeate the economic and social fabric. It covers a wide spectrum of topics and issues raised in the debate surrounding the increasing importance of smart technologies.
It takes on a strongly multi- and interdisciplinary perspective, providing readers from different backgrounds and with varying knowledge of this topic with a comprehensive and comprehensible overview of the main upcoming technological trends from a scientifically eclectic viewpoint.
This handbook draws together an international team of researchers from different scientific disciplines. The list of contributors comprises authors from Europe, North America, Australia and South Korea, and includes both internationally outstanding scientists and experts from a more policy-related and/or industry-related background.
Table of Contents
- Part 1. Disruptive technological change: historical record, economic analysis, methods and tools 1. Is technological progress inevitable? 2. Disruptive technological change in recent economic history 3. On machine ages: Causes, forms and effects of technological change 4. Tools and concepts for understanding disruptive technological change after Schumpeter 5. Entrepreneurship and industrial organisation 6. Is this time different? A note on automation and labour in the fourth Industrial Revolution Part 2. Smart technologies and work 7. Smart technologies and the changing skills landscape in developing countries 8. The impact of disruptive technologies on work and employment 9. The fourth industrial revolution and the distribution of income 10. The legal protection of platform workers 11. Smart technologies and gender: A never-ending story Part 3. Smart technologies and social and economic transformation 12. Artificial intelligence 13. The science space of artificial intelligence knowledge production: global and regional patterns, 1990-2016 14. Structural dynamics in the era of smart technologies 15. The diffusion of industrial robots 16. The triple bottom line of smart manufacturing technologies: an economic, environmental, and social perspective 17. From smart technologies to value creation: understanding smart service systems through text mining 18. Smart cities: A spatial perspective 19. Producing the 'user' in smart technologies: a framework for examining user representations in smart grids and smart metering infrastructure Part 4. Smart technologies, governance and institutions 20. Digital transformation and the sovereignty of nation states 21. Antitrust law and digital markets 22. Platform regulation: Coordination of markets and curation of sociality on the internet 23. New mission-oriented innovation policy in the digital era: How policy-based social technologies fuel the development of smart technologies. 24. Crypto assets 25. Blockchain and the "smart-ification" of governance: The last "building block" in the smart economy Part 5. Smart technologies and grand societal challenges 26. "Back to the Future": Smart technologies and the sustainable development goals 27. North-South divide in research and innovation and the challenges of global technology assessment: the case of smart technologies in agriculture 28. Smart technologies, energy demand and vulnerable groups
- the scope for 'just' metering? 29. Smart health 30. Cybersecurity and ethics: An uncommon yet indispensable combination of issues Part 6. Smart technologies: case studies 31. A digital society for an ageing population. The Japanese experience 32. Digitalisation and development in India: an overview 33. Industry 4.0 in China
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