Prometheus

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GENERAL EDITOR

Stuart Macdonald ([e-mail])

Leicester University, UK

EDITORS

Peter Drahos

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: patents, intellectual property, trade, regulatory and governance theory.

Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht

Department of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: information/knowledge-based economy/policy/society, economic growth and knowledge spillovers, the role of human capital, happiness economics, behavioural economics related to the information/knowledge-based economy

Richard Hawkins

Science, Technology and Society Program, University of Calgary, Canada ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: research policy, innovation theory and policy, university-industry collaboration, intellectual property, standards, technical regulation, electronic media industries

Steven Henderson

Southampton Solent University, UK ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: strategic management, organisational learning, critical thinking

Richard Joseph

130 Orange Valley Road, Kalamunda, WA, Australia ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: science and technology policy, Australian government policy, academic freedom and managerialism

Karmo Kroos

Department of Economics, Estonian Business School, Estonia ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: theories of social change, elites as agents of social change, the role of the university, higher education policy, sociology of knowledge, Central and Eastern Europe

Robin Mansell

Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: internet governance, telecommunications policy and regulation, social impact of new media, political economy of media and communication, development and ICTs

Martin Meyer

Business School, University of Aberdeen, UK ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: science and technology indicators, university-industry technology transfer, third mission, triple helix, intellectual property management, science-based innovation, new technologies (especially nanotechnology), technological systems, sectoral systems of innovation, programme evaluation

Joanne Roberts

Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Winchester, UK ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: knowledge economy, knowledge creation and transfer communities of practice, business services, internationalisation of services, information and communication technologies innovation systems

Kevin Scally

Cork University School of Business (CUBS), University College Cork, Ireland ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: invention and design; USPTO patents and innovation; IP and nonprofits; software usability; creativity, iconoclasm and play

Peter Senker

University of Sussex, Brighton, UK ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: technology, inequality, wealth and poverty; technology and the environment, capitalism and neoliberalism

Uta Wehn

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in partnership with UNESCO, Delft, The Netherlands ([e-mail])

Areas of expertise: knowledge, ICTs and innovation for development; inter-organisational data and knowledge sharing; knowledge management; capacity development; innovation systems; water innovation studies; citizen science

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Steven Umbrello

Managing director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging technologies, Boston MA ([e-mail])

WEBSITE DESIGN

Simon Dunn

([e-mail])

Cover Credit: Laconian cup with the punishment of Atlas and Prometheus. Vatican, Gregorian Museum of the Etruscan Art.

© 2020. Photo Scala, Florence

Prometheus

Volume 38 Issue 3 September 2022

CONTENTS

 Editorial 279

 Stuart Macdonald

 Research papers

 How research institutions can make the best of scandals – once they become unavoidable 282

 Gilles Grolleau and Naoufel Mzoughi

 The paradox of open innovation in Slovenian firms 292

 Daša Farčnik, Tjaša Redek and Sonja Šlander

 Metaphor and theory: a case study of astronomy 310

 Tonci Grubic

 Review essay

 William Kingston, How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation 335

 Peter Senker

 Book reviews

 Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, We have Always Been Cyborgs

 reviewed by Marietjie Botes 342

 Edmund Phelps, Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon and Gylfi Zoega, Dynamism: The Values That Drive Innovation, Job Satisfaction and Economic Growth

 reviewed by Antara Haldar 348

 Simeon J. Yates and Ronald E. Rice (eds) Oxford Handbook of Digital Technology and Society

 reviewed by José Maria Zavala Pérez 356

 Michael J. Boyle, The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace

 reviewed by Philip Wane 365

 Christoph Bartneck, Tony Belpaeme, Friederike Eyssel, Takayuki Kanda, Merel Keijsers and Selma Sabanovic, Human–Robot Interaction: An Introduction

 reviewed by Alan Richard Wagner 371

 Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler (eds) Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation

 reviewed by Judith Terstriep 374