ICT

Digital Entrepreneurship

by Mariusz Soltanifar, Mathew Hughes, Lutz Göcke

This open book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and tomorrow. Digital entrepreneurship and the companies steering it have an enormous global impact; they promise to transform the busines...

Next Generation Supply Chains

by Rosanna Fornasiero, Saskia Sardesai, Ana Cristina Barros, Aristides Matopoulos

This open book explores supply chains strategies to help companies face challenges such as societal emergency, digitalization, climate changes and scarcity of resources. The book identifies industrial scenarios for the next decade based on the analysis of trends at social, economic, environmental technological and political level, and examines how ...

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

by Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, David Ludlow, Claudia Baranzelli

This open book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference "Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions", held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consult...

Re-Configurations

by Rachid Ouaissa, Friederike Pannewick, Alena Strohmaier

This edited volume is an open title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims to go beyond the MENA region, contributing to critical debates on area studies while pointing out transregional and cultural references in a broad and compara...

Frontiers of Real Estate Science in Japan

by Yasushi Asami, Yoshiro Higano, Hideo Fukui

This open book presents recent research and hot topics in the field of real estate science in Japan. It features carefully selected English translations of peer-reviewed papers and excellent articles published in the Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences, as well as papers presented at the Japan Association of Real Estate Sciences (JARES) annual...

New Metropolitan Perspectives

by Carmelina Bevilacqua, Francesco Calabrò, Lucia Della Spina

​This open book presents the outcomes of the symposium "New Metropolitan Perspectives", held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26 - 28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the n...

Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education

by Tove Stjern Frønes, Andreas Pettersen, Jelena Radišić, Nils Buchholtz

Does the Nordic model of education still stand by its original principles and safeguard education for all? This open volume is a carefully crafted collection of chapters that investigate the different aspects of equity, equality and diversity across the education systems in the Nordic countries. Based on data from various national and international...

The Future of Financial Systems in the Digital Age

by Markus Heckel, Franz Waldenberger

The increasing capacity of digital networks and computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and availability of "big data", are impacting financial systems worldwide with rapidly advancing deep-learning algorithms and distributed ledger technologies. They transform the structure and performance of financial markets, the serv...