With the field of innovation studies (IS) now half a century old, the occasion has been
marked by several studies looking back to identify the main advances made over its lifetime …

This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the
evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies …

Many of the world's leading firms are developing a new model of industrial organization
based on systems integration. Rather than performing all productive tasks in-house …

Infrastructure sectors such as energy or water supply, sanitation, or telecommunications
provide us with services that are essential for modern life and for industrialized societies. In …

The innovation literature on operations-based organisations describes the positive effect of
Open Innovation (OI) on productivity. However, a systemic overview of how OI directly and …

The power of financial innovations to affect societies on global and intergenerational levels
compels us to ask how we can ensure their responsible emergence in society. This requires …

In this paper, we offer an original framework to study Artificial Intelligence (AI). The
perspective we propose is based on the idea that AI is a system technology, and that a …

This paper addresses the implementation of technology-forcing policies in open-ended
diffusion processes that involve companies and regulators as well as consumers and civil …

Despite the wave of privatisation in recent decades, enterprises under government control
still account for a large part of assets and employment in several countries and particularly …

The diffusion of socio-technical systems is more complex than that of discrete products and
cannot be understood solely with adoption models that have come to dominate the diffusion …