Volume 37 Issue 4 (2021)
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Editorial
We recently received a request from an academic whose book review was awaiting publication in Prometheus. A colleague had told him that Prometheus is a critical journal. As the academic’s…
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Now you see me? Auto-ethnographic insights from inside the black box of business incubation
Business incubators are a favourite policy tool used by governments worldwide to stimulate and support entrepreneurship. However, little is known about the challenges in operationalizing an incubator. Scholars have highlighted…
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Can business schools use practical reasoning to help them with social impact?
This paper concerns the challenges that face university-based business schools. These challenges are concerned with their ability to maintain expectations in educational and research terms, whilst at the same time…
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Farmer-driven innovation: lessons from a case study of subterranean clover seed production
Farmers are often overlooked and undervalued as sources of innovation, but can be powerful drivers of ingenuity and development. We evaluate historical developments in the Australian subterranean clover seed-production industry…
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Margaret O’Mara, The Code. Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
By Antti Tarvainen Silicon Valley has emerged as the key metaphor of the innovation-led economic development in the 21st century. As the Valley’s technology monopolies and utopias expand, there is…
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Ali E. Abbas (ed.) Next-Generation Ethics: Engineering a Better Society
Next Generation Ethics: Engineering a Better Society is an anthology featuring short chapters on the ethics of engineering, business and technology, intended for a broad audience. The 35 men and…
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Martin Ebers and Susana Navas (eds) Algorithms and Law
Algorithms and Law, edited by Martin Ebers and Susana Navas (2020) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 297pp., hardback £85, ISBN: 9781108424820. Law sails as tankers do: steadily and with difficulty in…
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Karen Yeung and Martin Lodge (eds) Algorithmic Regulation
Algorithmic Regulation edited by Karen Yeung and Martin Lodge (2019) Oxford University Press, Oxford, hardback £74, 294pp. ISBN: 9780198838494 Is regulation an end in itself? Is it (or should it…
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Sam Dubberley, Alexa Koenig and Daragh Murray (eds) Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability
Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability edited by Sam Dubberley, Alexa Koenig, Daragh Murray (2020), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 384pp., paperback £30, ISBN:…
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David Blockley, Creativity, Problem Solving and Aesthetics in Engineering: Today’s Engineers Turning Dreams into Reality Priyan Dias, Philosophy for Engineering: Practice, Context, Ethics, Models, Failure
Creativity, Problem Solving and Aesthetics in Engineering: Today’s Engineers Turning Dreams into Reality by David Blockley (2019) Springer, Cham, hardback US$60, pp.xvii + 225, ISBN: 9783030382575 Philosophy for Engineering: Practice,…