1st Edition
Innovation in Capitalist Economies Crises, Challenges and Opportunities
Introduction. What is innovation in economics in the 21st century?
Lyubov Klapkiv, Faruk Ülgen
PART I. TECHNOLOGICAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND FINANCIAL DETERMINANTS OF INNOVATIONS
1. Creative destruction: The driver for innovation, financing, and the business cycle
Alicia Girón and Luis Daniel Beltrán
2. The strengths of worker cooperatives in innovation processes: A way to find the "truth" of the firm
Hervé Charmettant
3. Promoting SME innovation in the Western Balkans
Massimo Cingolani
4. Exploring firm environmental development through creative communities: Capabilities-based theoretical issues and empirical case study in water sector
Virgile Chassagnon and Naciba Haned Chassagnon
5. Mechanisms of implementation of innovation in modern business management: Selected issues
Marek Dziura, Andrzej Jaki, and Tomasz Rojek
PART II. INNOVATIONS AND MODERN FINANCE: CURRENT ISSUES
6. Green bonds as a driver towards a climate-neutral economy in Europe
Volodymyr Svirskyi
7. Managing war-related risks in international trade: Innovative insurance products
Lyubov Klapkiv and Faruk Ülgen
8. Technological innovation as a basis for a paradigm shift in insurance: The search for new sharing economy effects
Marietta Janowicz-Lomott and Krzysztof Łyskawa
9. FinTech market development trends during the COVID-19 pandemic
Svitlana Volosovych and Antonina Sholoiko
10. Monetary finance as an innovative way to fund public investment: An appraisal
Alain Laurent
11. Innovative insurance market’s products for a sustainable economy: The example of waste management in the European Union
Aleksandra Hęćka-Sadowska
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Biography
Faruk Ülgen is a Professor of Economics, Head of International Relations and Bachelor Distance Learning Programs within the Department of Economics at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France. He also serves as Codirector of the Center of Research in Economics of Grenoble (CREG). His current research focuses on the evolution of financial markets and innovations and the evolution of financial regulation and supervision from an institutionalist-evolutionary perspective, drawing on collective action and the economics of the commons.
Lyubov Klapkiv, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the University Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin (Institute of Economics and Finance) and Visiting Professor at the University Grenoble Alpes (2022-2024). She received her PhD degree in Finance from the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Ukraine. She is a graduate of the Line Kirkland Scholarship program 2015/2016. Her main research fields include the economics of insurance, sustainable finance, and financial innovations.
