Innovációs minták a design-vezérelt iparágakban. A nyílt Made in Italy = Innovation Patterns In the Design-Driven Industries: Opening Up The Made In Italy

I enter allegedly different fields, the production of tangible and intangible products. What combines the two is my approach of deconstructing the semantics and production of these artifacts and bringing it forward to a common platform of organizational behavior demonstrated in innovation patterns. I hope my straight line of argumentation in the realm of modularity/ production/ innovation theory persuades the Reader of the soundness of the findings presented, despite the swirls and roundabouts of discussion with which I explicitly intend to deepen our understanding of the fields discussed. I am not less eager to challenge, and at some points even entertain by adding dimensions to flat writing. I invite the Reader to jump into this book drawing on their scholarly experience, however opening the eye, senses and adding their imagination as the objects of discussion come from a magical field: the entourage of objects and services designed to serve, beautify or ease our everyday needs. I also open doors for further discussion, which I intend to explore in-depth in further essays illustrating them with abundant examples, however in this current book I am streamlining the argumentation to lead the Reader through a lean architecture

Fifty shades of innovation – from open toward user, and open collaborative forms of innovation – an overview

Starting from the Schumpeterian producer-driven understanding of innovation, followed by user-generated solutions and understanding of collaborative forms of co-creation, scholars investigated the drivers and the nature of interactions underpinning success in various ways. Innovation literature has gone a long way, where open innovation has attracted researchers to investigate problems like compatibilities of external resources, networks of innovation, or open source collaboration. Openness itself has gained various shades in the different strands of literature. In this paper the author provides with an overview and a draft evaluation of the different models of open innovation, illustrated with some empirical findings from various fields drawn from the literature. She points to the relevance of transaction costs affecting viable forms of (open) innovation strategies of firms, and the importance to define the locus of innovation for further analyses of different firm and interaction level formations

Democracy and populism: friend or foe?: A review of Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.): Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or corrective for democracy?

As commonly expressed, populism is a synonym of demagogy, or an adjective used to describe and criticize the set of tools of a political movement. The meaning of democracy as constructed by language users is dynamically-changing and contextually bound. The interpretation of these two concepts is even more confused from a historical perspective as both the words democracy and populism have served to indicate a range of (in some cases diverging) phenomena, although they are perceived as being from the same semantic and contextual family

On Viviana A. Zelizer: Economic lives: How culture shapes the economy

This recent book contains the essence of the outstanding work of Zelizer concerning her analysis of economic institutions from the perspective of culture and society. Economic activities are viewed using a micro-habitual approach according to which our casual habits and everyday actions are embodied in monetary transactions which reflect power relations and social structures. The earnings and expenditure of a loving couple or the resources that a household allocates to a child, etc., represent economic dilemmas which involve our most intimate ties as parents, children, partners and lovers

Open innovation in the performing arts. Examples from contemporary dance and theatre production

Scholarship on open innovation examines the different shades of opening up the innovation process of firms, where the most important feature is sourcing in knowledge. In this paper I examine the implications of adapting open innovation frames to a field where it was not investigated before: performing arts (contemporary dance and theatre). I draw on case studies and demonstrate that open innovation strategies are viable for artistic production. Independent companies purposefully mining out external knowledge in production, and commercializing on the spillovers of their body of knowledge, put themselves on the shelf of firms adopting and adapting to open innovation