Socio-Tech Innovation

Harnessing Technology for Social Good
Herausgegeben:Poonamallee, Latha; Scillitoe, Joanne; Joy, Simy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-39553-7
• 1st ed. 2020
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9783030395537
• ISBN-10: 3030395537
• Artikelnr.: 58433144

Autorenporträt

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.