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Sharing cities :a case for truly smart and sustainable cities
The work makes a case for understanding cities as shared spaces and venues for collaboration; and proposes policies and practices to share cities fairly. It argues that with modern technologies the intersection of urban space and cyberspace provides an unrivalled platform for more just, inclusive and environmentally efficient economies and societies rooted in a sharing culture.OCLC-licensed ven…
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- 9780262329705
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- 1 online resource (x, 445 pages) :illustrations.
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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259101
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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The synthetic age :outdesigning evolution, resurrecting species, and reengine…
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering. We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The Syn…
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- 9780262345293
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- 1 online resource (224 pages)
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Innovating :a doer's manifesto for starting from a hunch, prototyping problem…
Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach --…
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 396 pages) :illustrations
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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) : illustrations
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The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277891
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages) :illustrations
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The next age of disruption
"Collection of Sloan Management Review articles centered on the concept of disruptive innovation and how to update/extend it for the current and future business landscape"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363129
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Breakthrough :stories and strategies of radical innovation
Strategies for fostering powerful cultures of innovation and creating breakthroughs.Since the late 1990s, technology markets have declined dramatically. Responding to the changing business climate, companies use strategies of open innovation: acquiring technologies from outside, marketing their technologies to other companies, and outsourcing manufacturing. But open innovation is not enough; it…
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- 9780262284233
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages) :illustrations
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Making futures : marginal notes on innovation, design, and democracy
Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320887
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- 1 online resource (xl, 351 pages) :illustrations, map
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Men machines and modern times
Includes index."Originally published in 1966 by the MIT Press. Reprinted with corrections.""People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This little book by a celebrated MIT professor -- the fiftieth anniversary edition of a classic -- describes how we learn to live and work wi…
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- 50th anniversary edition.
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- 9780262336574
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 312 pages) :illustrations
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