Socio-Tech Innovation: Harnessing Technology for Social Good - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3030395561 ISBN 13: 9783030395568

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Riassunto

This book defines socio-technological innovation and lays out different aspects of technology innovation and adoption literature as applied to socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Socio-tech innovation refers to novel solutions that involve development or adoption of technological innovations to address social and/or environmental problems with a view towards creating benefit for the larger whole rather than just for the owners or investors. Unlike conventional technological innovation, socio-tech innovation either develops a product specifically for underserved markets and adopts a model in which the market is not an afterthought but the rai-son d’etre. Social ventures have not been as successful in scaling up, though technology innovation-led ventures have; therefore, meaningful actionable insights that can help social ventures scale up successfully can be gleaned by this process. This book offers researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship programs a uniqueand interdisciplinary approach to studying social innovation that is grounded in technology innovation. This book features a series of socio-tech venture cases that illustrate these dynamics and can be used in undergraduate and graduate courses.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Latha Poonamallee is Associate Professor and Chair of Management & Social Innovation at The New School, USA. 

Joanne Scillitoe is the inaugural Paul Jennings Chair in Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management at California State, Northridge, USA. 

Simy Joy is a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India.

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This book defines socio-technological innovation and lays out different aspects of technology innovation and adoption literature as applied to socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Socio-tech innovation refers to novel solutions that involve development or adoption of technological innovations to address social and/or environmental problems with a view towards creating benefit for the larger whole rather than just for the owners or investors. Unlike conventional technological innovation, socio-tech innovation either develops a product specifically for underserved markets and adopts a model in which the market is not an afterthought but the rai-son d’etre. Social ventures have not been as successful in scaling up, though technology innovation-led ventures have; therefore, meaningful actionable insights that can help social ventures scale up successfully can be gleaned by this process. This book offers researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship programs a unique and interdisciplinary approach to studying social innovation that is grounded in technology innovation. This book features a series of socio-tech venture cases that illustrate these dynamics and can be used in undergraduate and graduate courses.

Latha Poonamallee is Associate Professor and Chair of Management & Social Innovation at The New School, USA. 

Joanne Scillitoe is the inaugural Paul Jennings Chair in Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management at California State, Northridge, USA. 

Simy Joy is a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030395561
• ISBN 13: 9783030395568
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 344
• Redattore: Poonamallee Latha, Scillitoe Joanne, Joy Simy
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