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Book review: Suzanne Moon (2023), Technology in Southeast Asian History Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 John P. DiMoia
Suzanne Moon (2023), Technology in Southeast Asian History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 208 pp., $39.95 (Paperback), $39.95 (e-book), ISBN: 9781421446912.
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Introduction: Start-ups and Innovation Ecosystems Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Venni V. Krishna
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Book review: Joy Y. Zhang and Saheli Datta Burton (2022), The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jack Linzhou Xing
Joy Y. Zhang and Saheli Datta Burton (2022), The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance. Manchester University Press, 224 pp., £85.00. ISBN-10: 152615952X; ISBN 13: 978-1526159526.
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Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and Startup Ecosystem in Vietnam Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Luong Van Thuong, Bach Tan Sinh
Research on science, technology and innovation policy (STI policy) in Vietnam has mainly focused on the role of government and business—the two main groups of social actors shaping the development of the Government. From the cultural perspective of STI policy, the article analyses the interactions between four policy cultures representing four groups of social actors (academic, state, business and
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Start-ups in the Brazilian Innovation Ecosystem Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Antonio José Junqueira Botelho, Mariza Almeida
The article analyses the dynamics of start-up growth in Brazil highlighting the role of government, companies, venture capital and the innovation system in start-up policy. The most significant recent change in the Brazilian start-up ecosystem was the rise of growth-oriented entrepreneurship and start-ups. The 2021 Brazilian Legal Framework of Start-ups and Innovative Entrepreneurship is a milestone
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Science and Technology Ventures in India: Integrating NIS, SSI and Ecosystem Perspectives Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Vikas Namadeva Prabhu, Srivardhini K. Jha, Rishikesha T. Krishnan
The study traces the emergence of science and technology ventures (STVs) in India through two systemic lenses—National Innovation System (NIS) perspective, which espouses a top-down, policy-driven approach to encourage STVs, and the ecosystem perspective, which highlights the role of independent organisations in nucleating STVs. Converging the NIS and ecosystem perspectives—at sectoral levels—is found
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Aspirations and Challenges of Space Techno-Science in Global Semi-Peripheries. A View from Kazakhstan Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Nelly Bekus, Zhomart Medeuov
This article contributes to the emerging scholarship on space programmes developed by nations across global semi-peripheries, and it uncovers the major factors and challenges shaping the outer space agenda both domestically and internationally. Drawing on the case of Kazakhstan, the article discusses how the development of the space industry has been accompanied by the government’s efforts to indigenise
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Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Regulation-making for Bottled Water Quality Standards in India Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Aviram Sharma
The paper contributes to the under-researched domain of standard setting for bottled water quality in India. The paper opens-up the ‘black box’ of regulation-making by analysing the mandatory bottl...
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The Nexus Between IT Capabilities and Firm Innovation Performance: The Mediating Effect of Supply Chain Agility Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Kashif Ullah Khan, Fouzia Atlas, Wajahat Ali, Usman Ghani, Farhan Khan
This study investigates the impact of IT capabilities on firm innovation performance. Further, it examines the mediating role of supply chain agility (SCA) as well as the moderating effect of innov...
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The Signal of Post Catch-up in Open Innovation Dynamics Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Jinhyo Joseph Yun, Xiaofei Zhao, Euiseub Jeong, Sangwoo Kim, Kyunghun Kim, Sung Deuk Hahm
The digital transformation can serve as a window of opportunity for those late-comers who are equipped with the capability to create complementary assets for grabbing new opportunities of technolog...
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The Optimal Open Innovation Strategy with Science-based Partners for Venture Firm’s Innovation Capabilities: Focusing on Innovation Modes Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Cheongho Na, Changjun Lee, Eungdo Kim
This study explores the difference in the effects of innovation modes on innovation capabilities dividing various collaborative activities conducted by venture firms with science-based partners int...
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Patent Value Promotion Based on the Technology Proximity Network: An Empirical Analysis of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Ben Zhang, Chenxu Ming
Patent value plays an important role in the open innovation system, which can stimulate enthusiasm for research and development investment and innovation collaboration. High-value patents on artifi...
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The Impact of R&D Subsidies and Non-R&D Subsidies on Innovation Output of Biopharmaceutical Firms Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Qing Li, Qingqing Liu, Jie Di
Government subsidies are important to the improvement of innovation level and sustainable development of biopharmaceutical firms. This paper empirically analyses the impact of government R&D and no...
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Depiction of Science and Technology in Post-Millennial Tamil Cinema Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Mangudi Ramgopal Mahalakshmi, Lavanya Rajendran
Technological advancement worldwide has impacted the cinema’s narratives, and Indian cinema is no exception to this. Science fiction is one of the fascinated genres of the Indian film industry. Inc...
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The Network Structures and Characteristics of Global Hubs of STI in Big Data Analysis and Mining Technology Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Peng He, Xu Bai, Di Cao, Jinxi Wu
Global hubs of STI are strategic nodes in the global science network and will lead the future of global scientific progress. This paper takes big data analysis and mining technology as an example, ...
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Success Factors for Innovation: A Bayesian Network Approach Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Seung Won Yu, Jaeseong Kim
The purpose of this study is to understand how innovation factors affect innovation and, at the same time, how the process of innovation factors leading to innovation can explain. This study used B...
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Book review: Tuhina Ray and Urmie Ray (2020). On Science: Concepts, Cultures and Limits Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Sambit Mallick
Tuhina Ray and Urmie Ray (2020). On Science: Concepts, Cultures and Limits. London and New York: Routledge, 256 pp., Hardback: £120, eBook: £36.99, ISBN: 9780367442552.
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Brazilian Company for Industrial Research and Innovation: A New Generation of STI Policy Mechanisms for the Modernisation of the Productive Sector Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Sonia K. Guimaraes, Regis L.G. Barcelos
This article focuses on the Brazilian Company for Industrial Research and Innovation, (EMBRAPII), a social organisation created as an intermediary agent to encourage partnerships between research c...
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Market Concentration, Diversification and Firm’s Performance in the Case of Indian Chemical Industry Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Kumar Shaurav, Badri Narayan Rath
This study investigates the effects of market concentration and diversification on firms’ performance in the case of the Indian chemical industry. The findings indicate a positive relationship betw...
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The Roles of Top Management Team Innovation Orientation and Institutional Support on Organisational Learning and Innovation Performance Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Kha Len Lek, Jianxun Chu, Emmanuel Mensah Horsey, Jinjin Wang, Jiashun Huang
Through the upper echelons and institutional theories, this study examines how top management team (TMT) innovation orientation and institutional support facilitate organisational learning and pave...
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Foreign Technology Transfer, R&D and Innovation: Resolving the Technology–Productivity Conundrum Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Chandan Sharma, Ritesh Kumar Mishra
This study aims to empirically investigate the impact of foreign technology transfer and R&D on total factor productivity and labour productivity of Indian firms. The results of production function...
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The Blind Spots of Sociotechnical Imaginaries: COVID-19 Scepticism in Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Renan Gonçalves Leonel Da Silva, Larry Au
During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, experts and policymakers mobilised various slogans to compel the public to help defeat COVID-19. By comparing Brazil, the United Kingdom a...
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What Cultivates a Path of Disruptive Innovation within Semiconductor Latecomers? An Exploratory Case Study of HiSilicon Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Lingli Qing, Dongphil Chun, Peng Xiong
Disruptive innovation is an effective way for market latecomers to draw a level with earlier developers. Yet, little is known about how a path of disruptive innovation for semiconductor latecomers ...
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The Shaping of Japanese Discourse on Nuclear Energy Technology in the Early Post-War Period Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Jongmin Choi, Sun-Jin Yun
This article explores Japanese perceptions of nuclear technology from 1945 to 1956, the early stage of the introduction of nuclear technology, by using discourses of the government and of antinucle...
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Walking as Embodied Research: Coloniality, Climate Change, and the ‘Arts of Noticing’ Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Nick Shepherd
‘Walking is the speed for noticing….’ In 2014, I began convening walking seminars together with the researcher Christian Ernsten and the documentary photographer Dirk-Jan Visser. Each seminar invol...
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Impermanence, Hybridity, Violence: Notes towards a Global Technology Studies Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Itty Abraham
This short essay explores some of the issues at stake when science and technology studies (STS) are situated within a global frame. Global, in this reading, is both historical and aspirational. As ...
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Of Canals, Rivers and the Right to Exist: New (?) Methodological Tools for a Changed World Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Gabriela Soto Laveaga
What can a dying river teach us about post/de-colonial science and technology? In a post-COVID world, absence and loss will be a constant presence in the lives of most. While thinking with erasures...
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From Provincialisation to Decolonial Options: A Methodology of Infrastructural Genealogy Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Alexander I. Stingl
In this paper, the author proposes that for STS as a discipline to change and progress, and to generate opportunities when entering into a dialog with postcolonial and feminist studies and activism...
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The Shifting Epistemological Horizon of the Pandemic Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Gennaro Ascione
The reaction to the pandemic has put in place some profound transformations. These transformations do not come entirely anew. They are rooted in the long-term process of oscillation between scienti...
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Pluriversal Problems, Revolutionary Remedies Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Suman Seth
This article offers a description of and engagement with a number of arguments that have been framed around the notion of ‘ontological symmetry’ or the promotion of a ‘pluriverse’ over a universe. ...
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Methodologies for the Pressed: Cartographies for Adisciplinary Sciences Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Banu Subramaniam
Historians of science have amply demonstrated that the natural sciences were shaped by the history of colonialism. In this short essay, I explore the field of botany. Drawing on the ‘pressed’ plant of the herbarium sheet, I explore the possibilities of decolonising botany. I am inspired by Chela Sandoval’s Methodology of the Oppressed to develop and lay out counter-colonial methodologies. I argue that
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Funding Research in Africa: Landscapes of Re-institutionalisation Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Rigas Arvanitis, Johann Mouton, Adeline Néron
This article begins with an overview of recent and current trends in scientific output in Africa. The focus is on how global dynamics and foreign funding support are directly affecting structural aspects of scientific research. It examines the fundamental role of foreign programmes and new forms of academic cooperation in African science. This includes a discussion of multilateral or transcontinental
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Mapping the Agricultural Research Systems in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Sanaa Zebakh, Ali Rhouma, Rigas Arvanitis, Mohamed Sadiki
This article reports on the profiles of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in the three Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, through their research policies, human resources, governance, funding and scientific production. A bibliometric study was carried out for the three selected countries based on the Scopus database covering the period between 2005 and 2019. The research
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The Status of Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Michael J. Kahn
‘Science’ has for long been advocated as a key driver of Africa’s post-independence modernisation. This project featured strongly in the Organization of African Unit Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 that called for governments to mobilise 1% of GDP towards building their scientific and technological capabilities. The 1% goal was duly re-affirmed at the African Union Ministers’ Conference of 2003, in Africa’s
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The State of Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa: Trends, Progress and Limitations Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Jacques Gaillard,Johann Mouton
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In Between Centre and Periphery: Kenya as a Key Scientific Nation in East Africa? Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Agnes Lutomiah, Jaco P. Blanckenberg, Stefan Skupien
Kenya’s government has identified science, technology and innovation as key for its national development plan and has started to refurbish its research environment. In this article, we use the world system approach to discuss the largely peripheral relations of Kenya’s science systems to the global science system and to identify indications for Kenya becoming a semi-peripheral scientific player itself
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Agricultural Research in Zimbabwe: An Author-level Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Outlets and Research Collaboration Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Nelius Boshoff, Similo Ngwenya
What can be learnt from an application of author-level bibliometrics to the field of agricultural research in Zimbabwe for the period 2012–2016? The study addressed the question by integrating data from three sources: Scopus, the Web of Science and the National Research Database of Zimbabwe. A set of fifteen bibliometric indicators was constructed for 2,873 Zimbabwean authors, of which 248 (9%) were
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Global and Local Research Excellence in Africa: New Perspectives on Performance Assessment and Funding Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Robert Tijssen, Jos Winnink
The concept ‘research excellence’ remains ill-defined in performance assessment and science funding frameworks. This article introduces a framework that distinguishes ‘global excellence’ and ‘local excellence’, which enable a better understanding of ‘research excellence’ in African science. Where global excellence is primarily determined by acknowledged visibility and partially measurable reputation
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Open Innovation Dynamics of Furniture Design and Function: The Difference between IKEA and Nitori Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Jin Hyo Joseph Yun, Xiaofei Zhao, Sun Ah Kim, Yuri Sadoi
Even though global markets are transferring from offline to online, offline sales are rapidly increasing in two top global furniture firms in Korea and Japan each—IKEA and Nitori. This study aims to answer the following research question: ‘What are the differences and similarities between IKEA and Nitori in the open innovation dynamics of furniture design and function?’ Diverse naturalistic qualitative
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Changing Patterns of Work–Life Balance of Women Scientists and Engineers in India Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Anitha Kurup, Anjali Raj
India has witnessed a steady rise in the number of women scientists and engineers in the last two decades. At the same time, the country has experienced the transition from the joint family to a nuclear family system. This has brought with it unique challenges for the women professionals as they negotiate their roles in families with successful careers. While documenting and analysing the changing
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University–Industry Linkages in Agriculture: The Case of Palestine Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Wasim Sultan, Suhail Sultan, Meine Pieter Van Dijk, Jo Ritzen
The usual crisis mode of economic operations in Palestine intersects with the adverse consequences of COVID-19 and necessitates an innovative response to survive. This research builds on potential synergies between industry and university to expand the Palestinian agriculture sector resilience. We report on an explorative study that sought to understand the reality of the university–industry linkages
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Academic Migration to Poland: Policies and Paradoxes Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Kamil Luczaj
The skill-attracting policies encouraging the internationalisation of higher education are compatible with a modernisation discourse, at the heart of which lies a belief that international researchers are highly embedded super-achievers allured by targeted policies. By focusing on the life stories of foreign-born scholars working in Poland (100 in-depth interviews), and Polish department heads (20
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Linking External Knowledge Search to Innovation Ambidexterity in SMEs Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Dongwoo Ryu, Kwang Ho Baek, Junghyun Yoon
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of external knowledge search strategy on innovation ambidexterity for SMEs. In order to achieve the purpose of research, hypotheses were set up by dividing exploitative knowledge sources and exploitative knowledge. Based on the Tobit regression analysis results by using the 975 data of Science and Technology Policy Institute, this research provides
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Identification of R&D Paradox after the Global Financial Crisis: Korean Case Focusing on the Smart Convergence and Conventional Industries Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Hyoung Ryul Ma, Cheol-Ju Lee, Dong Hoon Oh
This article empirically explores whether the Korean research and development (R&D) paradox has been intensified during the post-global financial crisis (2009–2018). We employ the augmented production function model to test the intensified R&D paradox, which is defined as a continuous decline in a firm’s output elasticity of R&D investment. Using a data set of 720 R&D-active firms, which have ever
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When Justification Theory Meets Responsible Innovation: A Study of Cell-Based Meat Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Helna Almeida de Araujo Góes, Giovanna Colin Zeny, Germano Glufke Reis
The benefits and challenges associated with cell-based meat (CBM) influence actors’ perspectives on the importance of its development and production. We build on Boltanski and Thévenot’s framework to analyse the values that start-ups and investors address to a responsible innovation (RI). In an uncertain and complex context, interactions among actors shape innovative enterprises. Our research question
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ANT at the Mirror: A Reflexive Analysis of the Theory and the Rise of a ‘New’ Action Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Alessandro Zampieri
Is ANT an actor in its own ontology? This question summarises a number of issues that will be comprehensively investigated in this article. ANT will be analysed ‘reflexively’, that is, considering it as an actant of the ontology that it reclaims as a theory. The analysis of the concept of ‘description’ and the observation of the relational effects that ANT exerts and that are exerted on it reveal its
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Book review: Rana Foroohar (2019). Don’t Be Evil: A Case Against Big Tech Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Arayan Khare
Rana Foroohar (2019). Don’t Be Evil: A Case Against Big Tech. Penguin Books Ltd, xxi+ 337 pp., £14.99 (Paperback).
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Book review: Suvobrata Sarkar (2020), Let there be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945 Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Viswanathan Venkataraman
Suvobrata Sarkar (2020), Let there be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, xiv+294 pp., £75.
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Book review: Dwaipayan Banerjee (2020), Enduring Cancer: Life Death and Diagnosis in Delhi Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Sophia Goodfriend
Dwaipayan Banerjee (2020), Enduring Cancer: Life Death and Diagnosis in Delhi. Durham and London: Duke Press, 240 pp., $25.95, ISBN: 9781478009559.
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Book review: Benjamin Bratton (2021), The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-10-04 Manu V. Mathew
Benjamin Bratton (2021), The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World. London: Verso Books. 177 pp., £10.99, ISBN: 9781839762567 (Hardback); £10.99, ISBN: 9781839762581 (eBook).
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What Drives Creative Crowdsourcing? An Exploratory Study on the Persuasion of Digital Storytelling Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Wei Xiao, Xiaoling Wang, Senmao Xia, Paul Jones
Crowdsourcing enterprises increasingly seek to attract and persuade makers to contribute their creativity and wisdom through digital storytelling, however, what are the effective components of digital storytelling and the persuasive effect of digital storytelling on creative crowdsourcing intention are still unclear. To fill this gap, this study explores how digital storytelling persuades makers to
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Investigating Determinants of Industry–University Collaboration in an Open Innovation Context: Comparative Evidence from an Exploratory Study Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Calin Florin Baban, Marius Baban, Adalberto Rangone
In an open innovation (OI) paradigm, universities are considered as important sources of external scientific knowledge for industry, and comparative study of such collaboration can result in more effective and efficient employment of OI. Within this framework, this study explores how the determinants of collaboration between industry and universities in an open context of innovation are addressed by
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Employment, Technology and Value Chain: A Case of Indian Leather Industry Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Bino Paul, Unmesh Patnaik, G. Jaganth, Kamal Murari
India’s leather industry is an interesting case for a value chain (VC) that has unorganised and organised firms. To understand VC’s upstream, we examine a recent database on unorganised enterprises in the leather industry. First, we assess the determinants of two outcomes: value added and surplus. Second, we gauge if technology impacts employment. We use a multi-database and multi-method approach.
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Simulation and Relationship Strength: Characteristics of Knowledge Flows Among Subjects in a Regional Innovation System Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Yi Su, Xuesong Jiang, Zhouzhou Lin
A small-world simulation model of a regional innovation system combining the strength of the intersubject relationship of the regional innovation system with the loosely coupled system is constructed. We use a simulation to observe knowledge flow within the regional innovation system under relationships of varying strength. The results show that when the relationship between the subjects of the regional
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Technical Problematisation: A Democratic Way to Deal with Contested Projects? Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Yannick Barthe, Morgan Meyer, Göran Sundqvist
A strong social and technical divide is particularly visible in the predominant understanding of technological innovation in modern societies. The field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) aims to overcome this divide, by focusing on the continuously entwined relationships between the social and the technical, that is, sociotechnical combinations. In this article, we argue that while it is reasonable
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Factors Influencing Technology Transfer in Companies at Emerging Economies Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Mikus Dubickis, Elīna Gaile-Sarkane
One of the ways how to catch up with developed countries is through innovation. Companies can develop innovation in-house, but it has been determined that a more efficient approach is to acquire new knowledge and technology from external parties. In the meantime, relatively few companies choose to cooperate, therefore the aim of this research is to identify the key factors that need to be addressed
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The Optimal Diversification Strategy in Pharmaceutical Industry: Balance-centred or Hetero-centred? Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Keungoui Kim, Junseok Hwang, Sungdo Jung, Eungdo Kim
Due to high uncertainty of product development and business environment, firm-level diversification has been regarded as one of the most effective methods in pharmaceutical firms. In previous study, firm-level diversification was discussed by different value chains of market, product, and technology. However, in most cases, the diversification itself was adopted in a simple manner although its property
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Technology Evolution and Multiplier Innovation Through TDNA Analytical Model Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Junghee Han, Sunghoon Chung, Heeyoung Jang
Few papers have dealt with disruptive technology from a technological evolutionary perspective. This article analyses disruptive innovation activities in terms of the new concept of technological DNA (TDNA). To pursue the research aim, evolution theories and a case methodology were utilised. We find that evolutions in technology are due to changes in environmental conditions. Parallels may be drawn
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Evolution of Open Innovation by Value-based Network Perspective: The Case of Korean Smart Home Industry Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Eungdo Kim, Kwangsoo Shin
Smart home to provide various automated services based on the Internet of Things for residents should design a new value of residential space by connecting various services through an integrated platform. However, there are few studies highlighting the value-based network in the smart home industry yet. Therefore, this study finds determinants of a value-based network (rather than an actor-based network)
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Collective Intelligence: The Creative Way from Knowledge to Open Innovation Science, Technology and Society (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Jinhyo Joseph Yun, Euiseob Jeong, Sangwoo Kim, Heungju Ahn, Kyunghun Kim, Sung Deuk Hahm, Kyungbae Park
This study aims to answer the following research question: Is there any difference in the effects of collective intelligence on the open innovation between before (2001–2005) and after (2011–2015) of the introduction of smartphones and crowd web services regarding electronics and mathematics? The research method of this study includes multiple regression analysis, including (1) the effect of collective