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This book explores the tensions between economic and cultural value from a range of disciplines.
The book offers new theoretical perspectives on innovation, analyzes innovation processes in diverse innovation fields, and presents case studies that reflect the diversity of innovations fields. To what extent and in what sense does innovation characterize our societies today? Innovations are no longer limited to the economic sphere; we find them in almost all areas of society today. Diverse actors generate innovations in different, increasingly reflexive ways. New concepts, practices, and institutional forms such as open source, crowdfunding, or citizen panels expand the spectrum.
This book argues for the increasing importance of the arts as a major resource in fuelling growth through the experiential dimension of today’s economy. As we move from the knowledge economy to a new stage called the joyful economy, consumers shift their spending from physical objects and technical know-how to experiences of joy and disappointment. This book investigates how artistic ideas are translated into successful commercial production, and how economic growth impacts artistic invention. It examines cases of successful innovation in the creative industries ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the present. The book suggests a framework where social players move in diverse worlds of...
An exploration of the interdisciplinary methods used to understand religious practice Religion is commonly viewed as something that people practice, whether in the presence of others or alone. But what do we mean exactly by "practice"? What approaches help to answer this question? What Happens When We Practice Religion? delves into the central concepts, arguments, and tools used to understand religion today. Throughout the past few decades, the study of religion has shifted away from essentialist arguments that grandly purport to explain what religion is and why it exists. Instead, using methods from anthropology, psychology, religious studies, and sociology, scholars now focus on what peopl...
Even after the recent economic crisis, cultural and creative industries are still able to easily draw audience members and consumers, as well as new talent to enrich these fields. Exploring the topic from economic, artistic, and policymaking perspectives, Pioneering Minds Worldwide is an interdisciplinary approach to these trades on a global scale, while making an important distinction between the cultural sector--products that are consumed on the spot, such as concerts or dance performances--and the creative sector, which generates artistic products that we have a protracted interaction with, i.e. design, architecture, and advertising. The authors of these highly informative essays offer new concepts and viewpoints on the entrepreneurial dimension of the cultural and creative industries in sixteen countries and explore how urban area development, new technological innovations, and education all influence these continually expanding industries.
This 1994 book was the first collection devoted to impact of natural sciences on content and form of economics in history.
? RFIDSec2010,the6thworkshoponRFIDSecurity,washeldinIstanbul,Turkey, June 8–9, 2010. The workshop was sponsored by the FP7 Project ICE (Grant Agreement No: 206546) of The Scienti?c and Technological Research Council of Turkey—National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology ¨ ? (TUBITAK-UEKAE). Theworkshopattractedarecordnumberof47submissionsfrom23countries, of which the Program Committee selected 17 for publication in the workshop proceedings,resulting in an acceptance rateof 40%. The review process followed strict standards: each paper received at least three reviews. The Program C- mittee included 31 members representing 13 countries and 5 continents. These members were care...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Application, CARDIS 2010, held in Passau, Germany, in April 2010. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mathematical algorithms; side channel analysis; systems; logical attacks; fault analysis; and privacy.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2011, held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2011. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart cards system security, invasive attacks, new algorithms and protocols, implementations and hardware security, non-invasive attacks, and Java card security.