Introduction -- China's Sputnik moment -- Copycats in the Coliseum -- China's alternate Internet universe -- A tale of two countries -- The four waves of AI -- Utopia, dystopia, and the real AI crisis -- The wisdom of cancer -- A blueprint for human co-existence with AI -- Our g…
Renewable energy: from Europe to Africa
by Elliott, David, Cook, Terence
fromPalgrave Pivot
Significant progress has been made by industrial countries to reduce emissions from the use of fossil fuels, but as the economies of the less-developed regions of the world begin to expand, they too will face similar challenges. This book looks at energy transitions being made i…
Development failures, environmental degradation, and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side-effects or 'externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people …
Introduction : Writing the transnational history of knowledge flows in a global age /John Krige --Knowledge, state power, and the invention of international science /Jessica Wang --Part I: Regulating transnational knowledge flows.Harnessing invention : the British Admiralty and …
"The book describes the complex activity of technology innovation, the process of generation of innovative ideas, and their transformation into new technologies. It assumes that technology evolves continuously, is changed by innovations, and is characterized by a dynamics consti…
Question time -- Coming out -- How it works -- Why it is difficult -- Structures -- Going to market -- Mind the gap -- Innovation community -- Give and take -- Currencies and metrics -- Impact -- Whatever next. "Research universities commonly have an office of technology transf…