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This book shows that sustainable development should be analysed and
managed as an innovation journey in which social, technological,
political and cultural dimensions become aligned. The journey'
aspect captures the open and uncertain nature of sustainable
developments and highlights the agency dimension, with actors
navigating, negotiating, groping and struggling their way forward
(and sometimes backward). The book addresses the following research
questions: What are the key processes and micro-dynamics of
innovation journeys? Which policy lessons can be drawn for managing
sustainable innovation journeys? To conceptualize the
multi-dimensional nature of innovation journeys the book draws on
insights from industrial economics, evolutionary economics,
sociology of technology, political science and cultural studies.
The book develops several new conceptual frameworks that make
different crossovers between these disciplines. These frameworks
are empirically tested with case studies on biofuels, onshore wind
power, low energy housing, photovoltaic solar cells, biomass and
fuel cells. The empirical studies are also used to derive several
robust lessons as to how policy makers can influence sustainable
innovation journeys. This book was published as a special issue of
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management.
There is a rapidly expanding literature on the economics of the so
called 'new technologies' - especially on those using
microelectronic systems. Dr. Jacobsson's book deals with
microelectronics-based innovation in machine tools: with the
production and use of computer numerically controlled machine tools
in the world economy and especially in the Third World. Jacobsson
is mainly interested in the implications which CNC machine tools
may be expected to have for users and producers in the Newly
Industrialising Countries. He approaches this as a problem in
applied economics and the book will have a primary interest for
those economists whose concern is with the problems of
industrialisation in developing countries. It will be parti cularly
valuable to those who are preoccupied with the role of local
capital goods manufacture and with the technological preconditions
for this kind of production. Jacobsson is able to give detailed and
specific arguments on these matters as far as CNC machine tools are
concerned. In my view, the book has a considerably wider interest
and relevance than its specification may at first sight suggest.
Jacobsson's achieve ment is not just that he has provided valuable
and convincing quantita tive arguments about policy in setting up
production of CNC machine tools. In addition, he has set a new and
much needed methodological standard for analysis of the impacts of
'new technologies' on the international economy."
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