Managing Emerging Technologies for Socio-Economic Impact

Throughout the world, technological innovation is often viewed as a magic wand that governments, university, industry, and nongovernmental organizations hope will lead to societal and economic impact. Yet understanding the process that will lead to optimal impact is a continuing challenge. In Managing Emerging Technologies for Socio-Economic Impact,the editors bring together scholars from several related fields in the hope of making sense of it all. . . . this book provides an interesting overview of the state of knowledge in the field and emphasizes the need for more interaction of industry, government, and business policy-makers with academics to both identify key questions they have and to test the utility of current analyses. -- Deborah D. Stine, Science and Public Policy Managing Emerging Technologies for Socio-Economic Impact is an important contribution to both the literature and practice of managing emerging technology. Importantly, this book not only considers the economic impact but also the wider societal impact and benefit. It is recommended reading for all those who aspire to steward emergent technologies into reality. -- Martin Curley, Vice President, Director, Intel Labs Europe, Intel Corporation This book offers a series of fascinating studies about the emergence of new technologies in different eco-systems of university-industry-government relations. -- Loet Leydesdorff, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands The chapters in this exciting new book explore the ways in which new technologies emerge, develop and are then commercialized. The chapters, many of which are by exciting young European scholars, are both theoretically and empirically sophisticated. If the reader is interested in how emerging technologies create socio-economic impact, this book will provide them with unique new insights. I recommend the book to all readers -- Martin Kenney, University of California, Davis, US

Edited by Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, Grenoble Ecole de Management, LINC Lab, France, Ilan Oshri, The University of Auckland, New Zealand and Krsto Pandza, Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Leeds University Business School, UK

Contents: 1. Management of Emerging Technologies for Economic and Social Impact: An Introduction Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Ilan Oshri and Krsto Pandza PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITIES FOR TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION Jatinder Sidhu and Fabrizio Salvador 2. Routines and Technological Discontinuity: An Attention-based View on the Organizational Adaption Process Saeed Khanagha, Henk W. Volberda and Ilan Oshri 3. Will the Real Innovator Please Stand Up? Claiming Ownership of an Organizational Capability Abdelghani Es-Sajjade and Krsto Pandza 4. Emergence, Transactive Memory Systems and Efficiency: A Contingency Approach Diogo Cotta and Fabrizio Salvador 5. Tools to Support Technology Intelligence Processes in Integrated Technology Service Providers Natalia Maya PART II: COLLABORATION AND NETWORKING IN MANAGING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos 6 . Network Evolution at the Science-Technology Overlap in the Triple Helix of Particle Therapy of Cancer Andrea Carafa, Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos and Andrew Parker 7. Nanotechnology in Ireland: An Analysis of the Patent Co-Classification Network Benjamin Schrempf and Evgenia Dolgova 8. Research Clusters and Emerging Industrial Architecture of the Irish Renewable Energy Sector Bei Gao 9. The Position and Role of Research Infrastructures in the Material Science Network Mickael Pero PART III: STRATEGIC CHALLENGES FOR POLICY-MAKERS IN SHAPING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Krsto Pandza, Thomas Reiss and Joze P. Damijan 10. Communicating Synthetic Biology: a Conceptual Framework to Position Developments in Biotechnology Davy Van Doren and Thomas Reiss 11. Methodological Challenges of Capturing Innovation in Developing Countries Marija Drenkovska 12 Renewable Energy Policies for Eco-Innovation Renata Dombrovski 13. Managing Structural Ambiguity in Collaborative R&D Policy Making Miriam Wolf and Terence A Wilkins PART IV: UTILIZING NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR INNOVATION AND LEARNING Ilan Oshri and Matti Rossi 14. Open Innovation in Family Firms: A Matter of Socio-Emotional Wealth Juan Pablo Madiedo M. 15. Engaging Users in Value Co-Creation Activities Darius Pacauskas 16. Taming the Waves of Adversity: Exploring the Multidimensional Construct of Organizational Resilience Andreas Alexiou 17. From Web 2.0 to Social CRM: The Place and Value Pradeep Durgam Index