The literature of innovation is full of calls to become more creative and inspiring: but it has less to say on the reality of turning theory into practice and ideas into profit. Real breakthroughs depend on finding profitable applications for new ideas. The beneficiaries of countless innovations...

Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction to the new production of users / Sampsa Hyysalo, Torben Elgaard Jensen and Nelly Oudshoorn -- Rethinking and extending theoretical approaches to the production of users in innovation -- Protecting the right to...

"This book examines the economic and political aspects of green trading and energy use from a global perspective. It also highlights the issues related to carbon trading, carbon credit, diplomatic conflicts in implementing environmental policies, energy use and energy efficiency, and the impact...