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Exploring Business Ecosystems and Innovation Capacity Building in Global Economics
All nations must become self-reliant and as such need to analyze the concept and terminologies associated with business ecosystems and social innovation ecosystems. Further study on the challenges and opportunities is required to ensure countries remain stable and continue to develop. Exploring Business Ecosystems and Innovation Capacity Building in Global Economics explores the application of different theories and frameworks that contribute to the business ecosystem through empirical and conceptual research. The book also states the issues and challenges that occurred in society during the pandemic and considers the development of virtual business environments. Covering topics such as social exchange, value creation, and business practices, this reference work is ideal for economists, policymakers, business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.
Decision Theory and Choices: a Complexity Approach
In economics agents are assumed to choose on the basis of rational calculations aimed at the maximization of their pleasure or profit. Formally, agents are said to manifest transitive and consistent preferences in attempting to maximize their utility in the presence of several constraints. They operate according to the choice imperative: given a set of alternatives, choose the best. This imperative works well in a static and simplistic framework, but it may fail or vary when 'the best' is changing continuously. This approach has been questioned by a descriptive approach that springing from the complexity theory tries to give a scientific basis to the way in which individuals really choose, showing that those models of human nature is routinely falsified by experiments since people are neither selfish nor rational. Thus inductive rules of thumb are usually implemented in order to make decisions in the presence of incomplete and heterogeneous information sets.
Leonardo da Vinci – Nature and Architecture
The second volume of Leonardo Studies explores a dual theme of nature and architecture, offering a wide-ranging overview of current Leonardo scholarship on these two abundant subjects. While Leonardo worked on his Treatise on Painting, he noted that understanding the physical properties of nature must precede individual projects of painting or designing buildings. The volume begins with the Trattato, and follows with physics, geology, painting that imitates architectural structure and vice-versa, and proceeds to architectural projects, questions of attribution, urban planning, and and the dissemination of Leonardo’s writings in the Trattato and its historiography. This impressive group of articles constitutes not only new research, but also a departure point for future studies on these topics. Contributors are: Janis Bell, Andrea Bernardoni, Marco Carpiceci, Paolo Cavagnero, Fabio Colonnese, Kay Etheridge, Diane Ghirardo, Claudio Giorgione, Domenico Laurenza, Catherine Lucheck, Silvio Mara, Jill Pederson, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Cristiano Tessari, Marco Versiero, and Raffaella Zama.
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.)
The basis for our understanding of Leonardo’s theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first scholarly edition of the Italian editio princeps as well as the first complete English translation of this seminal work. In addition, It provides a comprehensive study of the Italian first edition, documenting how each editorial campaign that lead to it produced a different understanding of the artist’s theory. What emerges is a rich cultural and textual history that foregrounds the transmission of artisanal knowledge from Leonardo’s workshop in the Duchy of Milan to Carlo Borromeo’s Milan, Cosimo I de’ Medici’s Florence, Urban VIII’s Rome, and Louis XIV’s Paris.
Leonardo’s Fables
An exploration of the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables to investigate their relationship with illustrations and scientific studies.
Laboratories of Art
This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alchemy from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. In particular, it scrutinizes epistemic exchanges between producers of the arts and alchemists. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the term laboratorium uniquely referred to workplaces in which ‘chemical’ operations were performed: smelting, combustion, distillation, dissolution and precipitation. Artisanal workshops equipped with furnaces and fire in which ‘chemical’ operations were performed were also known as laboratories. Transmutational alchemy (the transmutation of all base metals in...
Frugal Innovation and Social Transitions in the Digital Era
Frugal innovation is considered a new source of innovation, mainly to meet the needs of low-income customers. Hence, frugal innovation has primarily been explored emphasizing affordability. The concept of frugal and social innovation is a new idea and requires perspectives from academicians, researchers, and organizations to reach its full potential. Frugal Innovation and Social Transitions in the Digital Era considers the social value of innovation, frugal innovation, and social innovation in society at local, national, and international levels and calls the attention of scholars and researchers around the globe to focus on the social perspectives and social patterns of human life and society. Covering key topics such as emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and social change, this reference work is ideal for computer scientists, business owners, managers, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.
