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 39 Issue 3 September 2023

CONTENTS

 Editorial – Any data will do? 147

 Stuart Macdonald

 Research papers

 Propagating ‘Chinese invention’ through landscape performing art: sublimating the arts to nationalism  150

 Quan Liu

 First aid for a badly injured patent system 166

 William Kingston

 Review essay

 Mark Shepard, There are No Facts. Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life 175

 reviewed by Igor Szpotakowski

 Book reviews

 Henrik Skaug Sætra (ed.) Technology and Sustainable Development: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism 182

 reviewed by Ryan Marinelli

 A. Fejerskov, The Global Lab: Inequality, Technology, and the Experimental Movement 189

 reviewed by Joost Mollen

 Elise Bohan, Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century 195

 reviewed by Steve Fuller

 M. Steen, Ethics for People who Work in Tech 203

 reviewed by Kobi Leins