1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Smart Technologies An Economic and Social Perspective

712 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

712 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

712 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This  Handbook provides a thorough discussion of the most recent wave of technological (and organisational) innovations, frequently called “smart” and based on the digitisation of information. The acronym stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology". This new wave is one in a row of waves that have shaken up and transformed the economy, society and culture since the first... Read more

Part 1. Disruptive technological change: historical record, economic analysis, methods and tools

Chapter 1

Is technological progress inevitable?

Robert Skidelsky

Chapter 2

Disruptive technological change in recent economic history

Werner Plumpe

Chapter 3

On machine ages: Causes, forms and effects of technological change

Heinz D. Kurz

Chapter 4

Tools and concepts for understanding disruptive technological change after Schumpeter

Mark Knell and Simone Vannuccini

Chapter 5

Entrepreneurship and industrial organisation

Uwe Cantner and Thomas Grebel

Chapter 6

Is this time different? A note on automation and labour in the fourth Industrial Revolution

Luigi Marengo

Part 2. Smart technologies and work

Chapter 7

Smart technologies and the changing skills landscape in developing countries

Karishma Banga

Chapter 8

The impact of disruptive technologies on work and employment

Irene Mandl, Ricardo Rodriguez Contreras, Eleonora Peruffo and Martina Bisello

Chapter 9

The fourth industrial revolution and the distribution of income

Stella S. Zilian and Laura S. Zilian

Chapter 10

The legal protection of platform workers

Jeremias Adams-Prassl and Martin Gruber-Risak

Chapter 11

Smart technologies and gender: A never-ending story

Knut H. Sørensen and Vivian Anette Lagesen

Part 3. Smart technologies and social and economic transformation

Chapter 12

Artificial intelligence

Fredrik Heintz

Chapter 13

The science space of artificial intelligence knowledge production: global and regional patterns, 1990–2016

Dieter F. Kogler, Adam Whittle and Bernardo Buarque

Chapter 14

Structural dynamics in the era of smart technologies

Ariel L. Wirkierman

Chapter 15

The diffusion of industrial robots

Bernhard Dachs, Xiaolan Fu and Angela Jäger

Chapter 16

The triple bottom line of smart manufacturing technologies: an economic, environmental, and social perspective

Thorsten Wuest, David Romero, Muztoba Ahmad Khan and Sameer Mittal

Chapter 17

From smart technologies to value creation: understanding smart service systems through text mining

Chiehyeon Lim and Paul P. Maglio

Chapter 18

Smart cities, a spatial perspective: on the “how” of smart urban transformation

Elke Pahl-Weber and Nadja Berseck

Chapter 19

Producing the ‘user’ in smart technologies: a framework for examining user representations in smart grids and smart metering infrastructure

Antti Silvast, Robin Williams, Sampsa Hyysalo, Kjetil Rommetveit and Charles Raab

Part 4. Smart technologies, governance and institutions

Chapter 20

Digital transformation and the sovereignty of nation states

Richard Sturn

Chapter 21

Antitrust law and digital markets

Viktoria H.S.E. Robertson

Chapter 22

Platform regulation: Coordination of markets and curation of sociality on the internet

Ulrich Dolata

Chapter 23

New mission-oriented innovation policy in the digital era: How policy-based social technologies fuel the development of smart technologies.

Marlies Schütz and Rita Strohmaier

Chapter 24

Crypto assets

Tobias Eibinger, Ernst Brudna and Beat Weber

Chapter 25

Blockchain and the "smart-ification" of governance: The last "building block" in the smart economy

Brendan Markey-Towler

Part 5. Smart technologies and grand societal challenges

Chapter 26

"Back to the Future": Smart technologies and the sustainable development goals

J. Carlos Domínguez, Claudia Ortiz Chao and Simone Lucatello

Chapter 27

North-South divide in research and innovation and the challenges of global technology assessment: the case of smart technologies in agriculture

Andreas Stamm

Chapter 28

Smart technologies, energy demand and vulnerable groups; the scope for ‘just’ metering?

Dan van der Horst

Chapter 29

Smart health

Thomas Czypionka and Susanne Drexler

Chapter 30

Cybersecurity and ethics. An uncommon yet indispensable combination of issues

Karsten Weber

Part 6. Smart technologies: case studies

Chapter 31

A digital society for an ageing population: The Japanese experience

Yuko Harayama and René Carraz

Chapter 32

Digitalisation and development in India: an overview

Syed Mohib Ali Ahmed

Chapter 33

Industry 4.0 in China

Han Li and Wei Zhang

Biography

Heinz D. Kurz is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria, and a Fellow of the Graz Schumpeter Centre.

Marlies Schütz works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Graz Schumpeter Centre, University of Graz, Austria.

Rita Strohmaier is an economic researcher at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany.

Stella S. Zilian, M.A. (Econ.), works as a researcher at the Graz Schumpeter Centre, University of Graz, Austria, and at the Institute for Heterodox Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.