The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book brings together a range of...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Series foreword -- Contributors -- 1 Innovation by demand? An introduction - Andrew McMeekin, Ken Green, Mark Tomlinson and Vivien Walsh -- 2 Social mechanisms generating demand: a review and manifesto - Alan Warde -- 3 There's more to the economics of...

The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book brings together a range of...

This book offers a novel insight into the economic dynamics of modern biotechnology, using examples from Europe to reflect global trends. The authors apply theoretical insight to a fundamental enigma of the modern learning society, namely, how and why the development of knowledge and ideas...

This paper discusses the re-emergence of biofuel innovation systems in the USA and Brazil. We develop a view of eco-innovation systems as emerging and evolving to solve ecological problems. We then consider the role of the State as a core actor in the mobilization of innovation systems and...

This book presents an analytical framework for understanding the shifting ‘great divide’ in capitalist economies of knowledge. The authors develop a novel economic sociology of innovation, based on the ‘instituted economic process’ approach. By focusing on economies of knowledge, they...

This paper first explores the notion that the limitlessness of knowledge is a privileged source of the restlessness of capitalism [Metcalfe, J. S. 2001. "Institutions and Progress." <italic>Industrial and Corporate Change</italic> 10 (3): 561--586; 2002. "Knowledge of Growth and Growth of Knowledge." <italic>Journal of...</italic>