Socio-tech Innovation : Harnessing Technology for Social Good

Poonamallee, Latha (EDT); Scillitoe, Joanne (EDT); Joy, Simy (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3030395537 / ISBN 13: 9783030395537

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 41140903-n

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Socio-tech Innovation : Harnessing ...
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New