Innovation is critical to increasing global prosperity and also essential to surviving and overcoming the ongoing challenges of pandemics, wars, climate change, and systemic financial turmoil.
At the same time, major corporations seek to transform new knowledge and scientific progress into profitable innovations and to increase their influence over society. But if, as these firms claim, this tremendous innovativeness has a positive long-term effect on our lives, who ultimately pays the price for this development? This edited volume tackles issues related to innovation dynamics of modern capitalist economies, exploring the nature, the effects and the dynamics of innovative behaviour and the social impact of related policies. The first part of the book includes chapters on the selected drivers of innovative changes that driven by companies. The focus is made on organizational and financial determinants of innovations as well as on creative communities and social cooperation in networks that promote creative decisions. The second part is devoted to the innovations that play a role in the creation of added value and new financial solutions that allow companies to keep their vitality under the pressure of multiple events such a pandemic, climate policies, or growing geopolitical risk. Together, the contributors explore the various impacts of innovation on the way we are organizing capitalist economies in the 21st century.
This book will be of great interest to readers of the political economy of financial and economic development, innovation, banking and finance studies, economic policy, and economic crises.
Innovation is critical to increasing global prosperity and is also essential to surviving and overcoming the ongoing challenges of pandemics, wars, climate change and systemic financial turmoil.
Introduction. What is innovation in economics in the 21st century? PART
I. TECHNOLOGICAL, ORGANIZATIONAL AND FINANCIAL DETERMINANTS OF INNOVATIONS
1.
Creative destruction. The driver for innovation, financing and the business
cycle
2. The strengths of worker cooperatives in innovation processes: a way
to find the truth of the firm
3. Promoting SME innovation in the Western
Balkans
4. Exploring firm environmental performance through creative
communities: a capabilities-based perspective
5. Mechanisms of implementation
of innovation in modern business management selected issues PART II.
INNOVATIONS AND MODERN FINANCE: CURRENT ISSUES
6. Green bonds as a financial
driver for the transition towards a climate-neutral economy in Europe
7.
Managing war-related risks in international trade: innovative insurance
products
8. Technological innovation as a basis for a paradigm shift in
insurance the search for new sharing economy effects
9. Fintech market
development trends during pandemic Covid-19
10. Monetary finance as an
innovative way to fund public investment: an appraisal
11. Innovative
insurance markets products for a sustainable economy: the example of waste
management in the European Union Index
Faruk Ülgen is a Professor of Economics, Head of International Relations and Bachelor Distance Learning Programs within the Department of Economics at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France. He also serves as Codirector of the Center of Research in Economics of Grenoble (CREG). His current research focuses on the evolution of financial markets and innovations and the evolution of financial regulation and supervision from an institutionalist-evolutionary perspective, drawing on collective action and the economics of the commons.
Lyubov Klapkiv, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the University Maria Curie-Skodowska in Lublin (Institute of Economics and Finance) and Visiting Professor at the University Grenoble Alpes (2022-2024). She received her PhD degree in Finance from the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Ukraine. She is a graduate of the Line Kirkland Scholarship program 2015/2016. Her main research fields include the economics of insurance, sustainable finance, and financial innovations.
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