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Deborah D. Stine, Managing Emerging Technologies for Socio-Economic Impact, edited by Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Ilan Oshri and Krsto Pandza: Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, 2015, 416 pages, £85.50, US$150.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781782547877, Science and Public Policy, Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 298–300, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scw049
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Throughout the world, technological innovation is often viewed as a magic wand that governments, university, industry, and nongovernmental organizations hope will lead to societal and economic impact. Yet understanding the process that will lead to optimal impact is a continuing challenge. In Managing Emerging Technologies for Socio-Economic Impact, the editors bring together scholars from several related fields in the hope of making sense of it all.
The scholars’ work, supported by an EU-funded project, Management of Emerging Technologies for Economic Impact (ManTEI), is divided into four parts: Part I: Foundations of organizational capabilities for technological innovations; Part II: Collaboration and networking in managing emerging technologies; Part III: Strategic challenges for policy-makers in shaping technology development; and Part IV: Utilizing new technologies for innovation and learning.
A preface to the four parts reviews the key literature in each of these areas. The authors of the chapters within each part are primarily junior scholars with some senior scholars in the mix. There is certainly an advantage in having junior scholars bring new ideas to the table. The challenge with that approach is that few of them have any personal experience in industry or government so it is unclear if the questions that are answered and the answers obtained are useful in the end to policy-makers in these sectors.