Although the label innovation is applied to almost everything, with even the diffusion of innovations to society being called innovation, innovation research remains focused on bringing technology to the economic market. This dissonance provoked the central questions discussed at the 2nd...

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"From plantation to cup" : coffee and capitalism in the United States, 1830-1930 / Michael F. Jim(c)♭nez -- The labors of coffee in Latin America : the hidden charm of family labor and self-provisioning / Verena Stolcke -- Coffee and the rise of commercial agriculture in Puerto Rico's...