The routledge handbook of smart technologies: an economic and social perspective

Part 1. Disruptive technological change: historical record, economic analysis, methods and tools

Chapter 1

Is technological progress inevitable?

Robert Skidelsky

Chapter 2

Disruptive technological change in recent economic history

Werner Plumpe

Chapter 3

On machine ages: Causes, forms and effects of technological change

Heinz D. Kurz

Chapter 4

Tools and concepts for understanding disruptive technological change after Schumpeter

Mark Knell and Simone Vannuccini

Chapter 5

Entrepreneurship and industrial organisation

Uwe Cantner and Thomas Grebel

Chapter 6

Is this time different? A note on automation and labour in the fourth Industrial Revolution

Luigi Marengo

Part 2. Smart technologies and work

Chapter 7

Smart technologies and the changing skills landscape in developing countries

Karishma Banga

Chapter 8

The impact of disruptive technologies on work and employment

Irene Mandl, Ricardo Rodriguez Contreras, Eleonora Peruffo and Martina Bisello

Chapter 9

The fourth industrial revolution and the distribution of income

Stella S. Zilian and Laura S. Zilian

Chapter 10

The legal protection of platform workers

Jeremias Adams-Prassl and Martin Gruber-Risak

Chapter 11

Smart technologies and gender: A never-ending story

Knut H. Sørensen and Vivian Anette Lagesen

Part 3. Smart technologies and social and economic transformation

Chapter 12

Artificial intelligence

Fredrik Heintz

Chapter 13

The science space of artificial intelligence knowledge production: global and regional patterns, 1990–2016

Dieter F. Kogler, Adam Whittle and Bernardo Buarque

Chapter 14

Structural dynamics in the era of smart technologies

Ariel L. Wirkierman

Chapter 15

The diffusion of industrial robots

Bernhard Dachs, Xiaolan Fu and Angela Jäger

Chapter 16

The triple bottom line of smart manufacturing technologies: an economic, environmental, and social perspective

Thorsten Wuest, David Romero, Muztoba Ahmad Khan and Sameer Mittal

Chapter 17

From smart technologies to value creation: understanding smart service systems through text mining

Chiehyeon Lim and Paul P. Maglio

Chapter 18

Smart cities, a spatial perspective: on the “how” of smart urban transformation

Elke Pahl-Weber and Nadja Berseck

Chapter 19

Producing the ‘user’ in smart technologies: a framework for examining user representations in smart grids and smart metering infrastructure

Antti Silvast, Robin Williams, Sampsa Hyysalo, Kjetil Rommetveit and Charles Raab

Part 4. Smart technologies, governance and institutions

Chapter 20

Digital transformation and the sovereignty of nation states

Richard Sturn

Chapter 21

Antitrust law and digital markets

Viktoria H.S.E. Robertson

Chapter 22

Platform regulation: Coordination of markets and curation of sociality on the internet

Ulrich Dolata

Chapter 23

New mission-oriented innovation policy in the digital era: How policy-based social technologies fuel the development of smart technologies.

Marlies Schütz and Rita Strohmaier

Chapter 24

Crypto assets

Tobias Eibinger, Ernst Brudna and Beat Weber

Chapter 25

Blockchain and the "smart-ification" of governance: The last "building block" in the smart economy

Brendan Markey-Towler

Part 5. Smart technologies and grand societal challenges

Chapter 26

"Back to the Future": Smart technologies and the sustainable development goals

J. Carlos Domínguez, Claudia Ortiz Chao and Simone Lucatello

Chapter 27

North-South divide in research and innovation and the challenges of global technology assessment: the case of smart technologies in agriculture

Andreas Stamm

Chapter 28

Smart technologies, energy demand and vulnerable groups; the scope for ‘just’ metering?

Dan van der Horst

Chapter 29

Smart health

Thomas Czypionka and Susanne Drexler

Chapter 30

Cybersecurity and ethics. An uncommon yet indispensable combination of issues

Karsten Weber

Part 6. Smart technologies: case studies

Chapter 31

A digital society for an ageing population: The Japanese experience

Yuko Harayama and René Carraz

Chapter 32

Digitalisation and development in India: an overview

Syed Mohib Ali Ahmed

Chapter 33

Industry 4.0 in China

Han Li and Wei Zhang

This Handbook provides a thorough discussion of the most recent wave of technological (and organisational) innovations, frequently called “smart” and based on the digitisation of information. The acronym stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology". This new wave is one in a row of waves that have shaken up and transformed the economy, society and culture since the first Industrial Revolution and have left a huge impact on how we live, think, communicate and work: they have deeply affected the socioeconomic metabolism from within and humankind’s footprint on our planet. The Handbook analyses the origins of the current wave, its roots in earlier ones and its path-dependent nature; its current forms and actual manifestations; its multifarious impact on economy and society; and it puts forward some guesstimates regarding the probable directions of its further development. In short, the Handbook studies the past, the present and the future of smart technologies and digitalisation.

This cutting-edge reference will appeal to a broad audience, including but not limited to, researchers from various disciplines with a focus on technological innovation and their impact on the socioeconomic system; students across different fields but especially from economics, social sciences and law studying questions related to radical technological change and its consequences, as well as professionals around the globe interested in the debate of smart technologies and socioeconomic transformation, from a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective.