sociology of technology. … dynamics around a given technology are influenced by the way entrepreneurs and others package the technology, how governments … technology stops diffusing between and within countries. The book presents a series of recommendations for policy-makers and …

technology-induced transformation of labour markets, argue for a new social contract and discuss how the provision and use of …Digitalisation is one of the megatrends affecting societies and labour markets, alongside demographic change and … globalisation. The fourth industrial revolution will redesign production processes and alter the relationships between work and …

progression of scientific findings through a major university's technology transfer process and 2.) firms' use of the academic …

many sectors, but they also present new risks from potential misuse. We develop a multi-sector technology adoption model to … optimal adoption is gradual and convex. If social damages are proportional to the productivity gains from the new technology …

-gaming contexts via software. In a labour process context its promoters advocate DG as a win-win-technology that supposedly increases … empty, deceitful promise. For the sociology of work these normative discrepancies raise theoretical and empirical questions … productivity and quality of work simultaneously. Critiques, on the other hand, denounce it as part of libertarian ideology or as an …