Volume 36 Issue 2 (2020)
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Editorial
Herewith the second issue of Prometheus in its new colours. Our first issue with Pluto Journals (March 2020) coincided with the onslaught of Covid-19 and all the horrors this has…
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Analysing frugal innovation incubation programmes: a case study from the water sector
Perceived positive impacts of frugal innovation for sustainable global development have triggered a variety of programmes to foster such innovation. To increase the impact of these programmes, it is important…
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Data sharing policies in scholarly publications: interdisciplinary comparisons
Digital sharing of research data is becoming an important research integrity norm. Data sharing is promoted in different avenues, one being the scholarly publication process: journals serve as gatekeepers, recommending…
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The importance of drug target selection capability for new drug innovation: definition, fostering process, and interaction with organizational management
The productivity of new drug discovery has not changed for decades, although the information on physiological functions and molecules, which are the sources for new drug discovery, has markedly increased.…
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Does the type of funding influence research results – and do researchers influence funders?
Does a shift from hard to soft funding have an impact on research outcomes? Existing literature suggests that moving from hard money, such as lump-sum government-funded research, to commissioned research…
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Toward a relational view of organizational innovation: learning from previous and subsequent stages of innovation in large biopharmaceutical firms, 1990–2006
The paper draws on insights from relational sociology to develop a relational view of organizational innovation which suggests that feedback between stages of innovation may occur regardless of whether they…
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The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Digital Capitalism, Bernard Stiegler (2019), Polity Press, Cambridge, 380pp., paperback £24.99, ISBN 978-1-5095-2927-8
The uncertainties and complexities of the contemporary world are immense. The Covid-19 pandemic has arisen in a context where climate change, global inequalities, political paralysis, failures of collective agency, and…
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Is Technology Good for Education? Neil Selwyn (2016), Polity Press, New York, 160pp., hardcover $US64.95, ISBN 978-0-74-569646-1
The most influential factor in accepting the request to review this book was its title. The book argues that it is necessary to set technology and education in their social,…
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Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics, edited by Tüzin Baycan and Hugo Pinto (2018), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 354pp., hardback £110, ISBN: 978-1-78643-218-6
Since the financial crash of 2007/08, there has been a burgeoning interest amongst academics and policy makers alike in why some economies prove to be more resilient to shocks and…
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A Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy and Contestation, Michael Zürn (2018), Oxford University Press, Oxford, xviii + 312pp., $US26.95, ISBN 978-0-19-881998-1
This volume is an impressive synthetic text, pulling together the work of a couple of decades to sort out what is going on under the rubric of ‘global governance’. Its…