1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Smart Technologies An Economic and Social Perspective
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 Industrial Revolution and have left a huge impact on how we live, think, communicate and work: they have deeply affected the socioeconomic metabolism from within and humankind’s footprint on our planet. The Handbook analyses the origins of the current wave, its roots in earlier ones and its path-dependent nature; its current forms and actual manifestations; its multifarious impact on economy and society; and it puts forward some guesstimates regarding the probable directions of its further development. In short, the Handbook studies the past, the present and the future of smart technologies and digitalisation.
This cutting-edge reference will appeal to a broad audience, including but not limited to, researchers from various disciplines with a focus on technological innovation and their impact on the socioeconomic system; students across different fields but especially from economics, social sciences and law studying questions related to radical technological change and its consequences, as well as professionals around the globe interested in the debate of smart technologies and socioeconomic transformation, from a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective.
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.
