This is an original and very well structured and informative book.
Its particular interest stems from the multidimensional and
detailed analysis of a set of core technologies and their uneven
diffusion process in eight countries of quite different levels of
development. It challenges received ideas about what really matters
to democratize the access to new technologies and provides
evidence-based suggestions for policy design. Scholars and students
interested in the technological side of inequality will read this
book with delight.' - Judith Sutz, Universidad de la Republica,
UruguayInequality is one of the main features of globalization. Do
emerging technologies, as they spread around the world, contribute
to more inequality or less? This unique interdisciplinary text
examines the relationships between emerging technologies and
social, economic and other forms of inequality. Susan Cozzens,
Dhanaraj Thakur, and the other co-authors ask how the benefits and
costs of emerging technologies are distributed amongst different
countries - some rich and some poor. Examining the case studies of
five technologies across eight countries in Africa, Europe and the
Americas, the book finds that the distributional dynamics around a
given technology are influenced by the way entrepreneurs and others
package the technology, how governments promote it and the existing
local skills and capacity to use it. These factors create social
and economic boundaries where the technology stops diffusing
between and within countries. The book presents a series of
recommendations for policy-makers and private sector actors to move
emerging technologies beyond these boundaries and improve their
distributional outcomes. Offering a broad range of mature and
relatively new emerging technologies from a diverse set of
countries, the study will strongly appeal to policy-makers in
science, technology and innovation policy. It will also benefit
students and academics interested in innovation, science,
technology and innovation policy, the economics of innovation, as
well as the history and sociology of technology. Contributors: B.
Beckert, I. Bortagaray, L. Brito, R. Brouwer, S. Cozzens,
M.P.Falcao, S.D. Gatchair, J.A. Holbrook, L.A. Pace, D. Thakur
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