184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book introduces cutting-edge issues and thought-provoking concepts on innovation management. It illustrates how robotic developments allow new powerful support functionalities for harnessing workplace innovations and new types of work in enterprises. In particular, low status jobs—heavy, repetitive and dangerous jobs—are disappearing and increasingly replaced by creative and meaningful work.... Read more
1. Powerful Robot Laborers in the 21st Century 2. Innovation Networks and Partnerships 3. Social and Cultural Friction as Creative Forces 4. Two Cases of Robots in Medical Science and Health Care 5. Robots in Eldercare 6. Robots in Services 7. Robots in Agriculture 8. The Paradoxes of Friction Management 9. Conclusion: Implications for Innovative Workers and Their Place in Robot Society
Biography
Kristian Wasen is a Researcher in Management Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
