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The psychology of Silicon Valley : ethical threats and emotional unintelligen…
This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, values, and characteristics that drive behaviors within the high-tech capital of the world, Silicon Valley, and the sector it represents. In an era where the reach and influence of a single industry has the potential to define the future of our world, it has become apparent just how little we know about the organizations drivin…
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- 9783030273644
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- viii, 314p. : ill.
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- 302.35 COO p
New horizons for a data-driven economy : a roadmap for usage and exploitation…
In this book readers will find technological discussions on the existing and emerging technologies across the different stages of the big data value chain. They will learn about legal aspects of big data, the social impact, and about education needs and requirements. And they will discover the business perspective and how big data technology can be exploited to deliver value within different se…
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- 9783319215693
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- xx, 303p. : ill.
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- 005.7 NEW n
Designing digital work : concepts and methods for human-centered digitization
Combining theory, methodology and tools, this open access book illustrates how to guide innovation in today’s digitized business environment. Highlighting the importance of human knowledge and experience in implementing business processes, the authors take a conceptual perspective to explore the challenges and issues currently facing organizations. Subsequent chapters put these concepts int…
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- 9783030122591
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- xxi, 435p. : ill.
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- 650.0285 OPP d
Real-time linked dataspaces : enabling data ecosystems for intelligent systems
This open access book explores the dataspace paradigm as a best-effort approach to data management within data ecosystems. It establishes the theoretical foundations and principles of real-time linked dataspaces as a data platform for intelligent systems. The book introduces a set of specialized best-effort techniques and models to enable loose administrative proximity and semantic integratio…
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- 9783030296650
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- xxiii, 325p. : ill.
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- 005.7565 CUR r
Knowledge and institutions
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepren…
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- 9783319753287
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- X, 310 p
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- Knowledge and Space
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- 304.2 GLU k
Responsible Innovation : Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementa…
This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a…
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- 9789402417203
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- 630 JAR r
Critical perspectives on educational leadership
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 9780203977927
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- vii, 247p. : ill.
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- 371.2 CRI c
Extending educational reform : from one school to many
In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many? Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explo…
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- 9780203993965
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- xi, 179p. : ill.
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- 371.200973 DAT e
Geopolitics of the knowledge-based society
We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as …
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- 9781138821996
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- xi, 182p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 MOI g
Innovative school principals and restructuring : life history portraits of su…
Restructuring is an international phenomenon, and great stress is placed on the role of the innovative principal in the process. This book offers insights into the ways in which six principals go about leading the change process in their schools, and looks for ways of understanding why and how principals behave and think in the way they do. Its edited topical life history approach identifies ke…
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- 9780203985946
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- vi, 182p. : ill.
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- 371.200994 DIM i
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