1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910523755203321

Autore

Szerb László

Titolo

The Digital Platform Economy Index 2020 / / by László Szerb, Eva Somogyine Komlosi, Zoltan J. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, Abraham K. Song

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-030-89651-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (79 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Economics, , 2191-5512

Disciplina

658.421

658.11

Soggetti

Economic development

Entrepreneurship

New business enterprises

Evolutionary economics

Institutional economics

Economic Growth

Institutional and Evolutionary Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The concept of the platform-based ecosystem: The digital platform economy -- Chapter 3. From concept to measurement: The 12 pillars and their measurement -- Chapter 4. The Digital Platform Economy Index: Country rankings and clustering -- Chapter 5. Improving the digital platform economy: Policy suggestions -- Chapter 6. Summary and conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the 2020 Digital Platform Economy Index (DPE Index). The DPE Index integrates two separate but related literatures on ecosystems, namely, the digital ecosystem and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This new framework situates digital entrepreneurship within the broader context of users, platforms, and institutions, such that two biotic entities (users and agents) actuate individual agency, and two abiotic components (digital infrastructure and digital platforms) form the external environment. The DPE Index framework includes 12 pillars that integrate the digital and the entrepreneurship ecosystems. Here,



the authors report on the DPE Index, the four sub-indices, and the 12 pillar values for 116 countries as well as provide a cluster analysis based on the 12 pillars.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955259303321

Autore

Andrews James T. <1961->

Titolo

Red cosmos : K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry / / James T. Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A & M University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-60344-360-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Centennial of flight series ; ; no. 18

Disciplina

629.4092

B

Soggetti

Aerospace engineers - Soviet Union

Authors, Russian

Authors, Soviet

Science fiction, Soviet - History and criticism

Astronautics - Russia - History

Astronautics - Social aspects - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelude before Tsiolkovskii: Russian rocketry from Peter the Great to the nineteenth century -- Introduction envisioning the cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964 -- Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917 -- Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia -- Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928 -- Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928 -- Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957 --



Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964.

Sommario/riassunto

Long before the space race captured the world's attention, K. E. Tsiolkovskii first conceived of multi-stage rockets that would later be adapted as the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet rocket programs.  Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial scientist was even sanctioned by Stalin to give a speech from Red Square on May Day 1935, lauding the Soviet technological future while also dreaming and expounding on his own visions of conquering the cosmos. Later, the Khrushchev regime used him as a "poster boy" for Soviet excellence during its Cold War competition with the United States. Ironically, some revisionists have since pointed to such blatant promotion by the Communist Party in an attempt to downplay Tsiolkovskii's scientific contributions.  James T. Andrews explores the complexities of this man to show that Tsiolkovskii was much more than either a rocket inventor or a propaganda tool. He was a science popularizer, novelist, technical inventor, and visionary, whose science fiction writings included futuristic drawings of space stations long before they appeared on any engineer's drawing board.  Mining a myriad of Russian archives, Andrews produces not only a biographical account but also a study of Soviet technological propaganda, local science education, public culture in the 1920s and 1930s, and the cultural ramifications of space flight.