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"Community-based digital fabrication workshops (such as Hackerspaces, FabLabs and Makerspaces) are innovative spaces where people come together to learn about and use versatile digital design and manufacturing technologies and create things in collaborative projects. Some spaces are run...

Offshore wind technology has recently undergone rapid deployment in the UK. And yet, up until recently, the UK was considered a laggard in terms of deploying renewable energy. How can this burst of offshore activity be explained? An economic analysis would seek signs for newfound competitiveness...

Research into technology and sustainable development has shifted upwards recently, from the level of individual artefacts to entire technological regimes. New theory into the public management of regime transformation privileges a role for innovative niches that diverge from the incumbent,...

The book considers a range of conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, race, social reproduction, the labour process and migration as well as in relation to methods, theory and research practice.