Readings and links
The book of Nordhaus and Shellenberg is the best introduction to the ”politics of possibility” and to the new environmentalism.
Nordhaus Ted and Shellenberger Michael (2007): Break Through, From the Death of Environmentalism to Politics of Possibility. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
The following books provide an excellent introduction to the new innovation policy based on open global collaboration and to the new challenges of global economy
Benkler Yochai (2006):The Wealth of Networks, How Social Production Transforms Markets
and Freedom. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
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Chesbrough Henry (2003): Open Innovation, The new Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press.
Chesbrough Henry (2006): Open Business Models, How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press.
Christensen Clayton M (1997): The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press.
Christensen Clayton M, Anthony Scott D. ja Roth Erik A. (2004): Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press.
Freedman Thomas L. (2005): The World is Flat, A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Ghoshal Sumantra (2005): Bad Management Theories are Destroying Good Management Practices.
Academy of Management Learning & Education 4(1): 75-91
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Manu Alexander (2007): The Imagination Challenge, Strategic Foresight and Innovation in the Global Economy. Berkeley: Now Riders.
Miles Raymond, Miles Grant ja Snow Charles C. (2005): Collaborative Entrepreneurship. Stanford: Stanford Business Books.
Prahalad C.K. (2004): The Fortune at the Bottom of Pyramid. Eradicating Poverty Through Profits. Wharton School Publishing.
Reich Robert B. (2007): Supercapitalism, The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Saxenian AnnaLee (2006): The New Argonauts, Regional Advantages in a Global Economy. Cambridge, Mass., London, England: Harvard University Press.
Tapscott Don ja Williams Anthony D. (2007): Wikinomics, How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Portfolio.
Von Hippel Eric (2005): Democratizing Innovation. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.
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Weber Steven (2004): The Success of Open Source. Boston: Harvard University Press.