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Cover The Evolution of Social Innovation
The Evolution of Social Innovation
Building Resilience Through Transitions
Editors: Frances Westley, Katherine McGowan, and Ola Tjörnbo
In a time where governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. Exciting and promising ideas seem to die out as often as they take flight, and market mechanisms, which go a long way towards contributing to successful technical innovations, play an insignificant role in social innovations. The cases in this book explore the evolution of successful social innovation through time, from the ideas which catalysed social and system entrepreneurs to create new processes, platforms, projects and programs to fundamental social shifts in culture, economics, laws and policies which occurred as a result. In doing so, the authors shed light on how to recognize transformative potential in the early stage innovations we see today.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Dec 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431158
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Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Time, Space and Capital
Time, Space and Capital
Åke E. Andersson and David Emanuel Andersson
In this challenging book, the authors demonstrate that economists tend to misunderstand capital. Frank Knight was an exception, as he argued that because all resources are more or less durable and have uncertain future uses they can consequently be classed as capital. Thus, capital rather than labor is the real source of creativity, innovation, and accumulation. But capital is also a phenomenon in time and in space. Offering a new and path-breaking theory, they show how durable capital with large spatial domains — infrastructural capital such as institutions, public knowledge, and networks — can help explain the long-term development of cities and nations.
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Monograph Book
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28 Jul 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783470884
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Economics 2017
Cover Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development
Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development
Betterment and Compensation in China
Li Tian
This book presents an analysis of betterment and compensation issues under the Land Use Rights (LURs) System in China since 1988. The topic originates from the observation of widening inequity and increasing uncertainty associated with the failure of government to adequately address betterment and compensation issues. An analytical framework of institutions and property rights is employed to examine socio-economic impacts under the LURs system, in particular, the role of the state is analyzed to explore the effects of government intervention in land markets.
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Monograph Book
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26 Dec 2014
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https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783476404
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Economics 2014
Cover Cities and Private Planning
Cities and Private Planning
Property Rights, Entrepreneurship and Transaction Costs
Editors: David Emanuel Andersson and Stefano Moroni
Through comprehensive case studies of privately planned cities and neighbourhood in Asia, Europe and North America, this book characterizes the theoretical basis and empirical manifestations of private urban planning. In this innovative volume, Andersson and Moroni develop an understudied aspect of urban planning and re-evaluate conceptions of our urban future.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Sep 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783475063
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Economics 2014
Cover Governance of Innovation
Governance of Innovation
Firms, Clusters and Institutions in a Changing Setting
Editors: Maarten J. Arentsen, Wouter van Rossum, and Albert E. Steenge
Governance of Innovation takes the multidimensional nature of innovation as its point of departure, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of backgrounds to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of contemporary innovation challenges.
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Monograph Book
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29 Oct 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781000830
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Social And Political Science 2010 and before
Cover Knowledge in the Development of Economies
Knowledge in the Development of Economies
Institutional Choices Under Globalisation
Editors: Silvia Sacchetti and Roger Sugden
This innovative book offers a critical perspective on the state of the current global economy, making sense of knowledge-related issues by critically assessing existing institutional choices, as well as pointing to new ways forward.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Sep 2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849802345
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover Transport Project Evaluation
Transport Project Evaluation
Extending the Social Cost–Benefit Approach
Editor: Elvira Haezendonck
This book revisits traditional evaluation methods, such as cost–benefit analysis, to try and find a balance between the ever-increasing demand for transport, the search for sustainable mobility and green transport solutions, and the limited financial resources that governments are able to invest in transport infrastructure projects.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Nov 2007
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781847208682
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Economics 2010 and before