Sociology of Innovation and Knowledge Management
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This chapter describes and problematizes the specific turn to assetization that patents have taken, more specifically, the transfiguration of patents into speculative financial assets. Whereas intellectual property rights are commonly... more
Pragmatism has been seen as a viable alternative to positivism in social science research. This paper explores the relevance of pragmatism and its relations to the conducting of research based on narrative epistemology as part of... more
The concept of innovation has entered a turbulent age. On the one hand, it is uncriti-cally understood as 'technological innovation' and 'commercialized innovation.' On the other hand, ongoing research under the heading responsible... more
Napjaink egyik legmeghatározóbb megatrendje kétségkívül a digitalizáció, melyre a globalizáció következő lépcsőjeként tekinthetünk. Ennek eredményeképp új üzleti modellek és technológiák alakítják markánsan a gazdaság és társadalmi lét... more
Digitalization is one of the key drivers of accelerated change in our everyday lives, both on an economic and social level. With solutions enabled through ICT technologies, we are more connected than ever on the global scale. In this next... more
Knowledge is increasingly thought of as a common good. This is exhibited in the fact that many central economies are moving towards economic paradigms where knowledge plays a fundamental role. This paper explores the confluence between... more
Offshoring and outsourcing have become the buzzwords of the IT community and the popular media discourse about the current era of globalization in services. Acknowledging the geographic perspective expressed in these dominant terms, in... more
Social start-ups constitute a subclass of the innovative entrepreneurship market and they are a relatively new topic in the literature from both the scientific and normative perspectives. In Italy, a start-up can be registered as... more
This study aims to articulate how the importance of the university and technology parks administrations has affected on the development of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in changing environment of the Turkish universities. The... more