The Routledge Handbook of Smart Technologies

An Economic and Social Perspective
Herausgeber: Kurz, Heinz D.; Zilian, Stella S.; Strohmaier, Rita; Schutz, Marlies

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Produktbeschreibung

The handbook discusses smart technologies, covering a broad range of technological trends such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and cyber-physical systems to shed light on the associated potentials and challenges for the economy and society from the perspective of social, economic, natural and political sciences.

Produktdetails

• Routledge International Handbooks
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 249mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1228g
• ISBN-13: 9781032130811
• ISBN-10: 1032130814
• Artikelnr.: 68712655

Autorenporträt

Heinz D. Kurz is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria, and a Fellow of the Graz Schumpeter Centre. Marlies Schütz works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Graz Schumpeter Centre, University of Graz, Austria. Rita Strohmaier is an economic researcher at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany. Stella S. Zilian, M.A. (Econ.), works as a researcher at the Graz Schumpeter Centre, University of Graz, Austria, and at the Institute for Heterodox Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Inhaltsangabe

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