Sökning: "industrial capitalism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden industrial capitalism.
1. Walking the Plank of the Entrepreneurial University : The little spin-out that could?
Sammanfattning : Creating spinout companies (USOs) from university research is one focus of innovation policy. The phenomenon features in two main fields of enquiry: academic entrepreneurship studies, and literature on academic capitalism and the entrepreneurial university. LÄS MER
2. Egypt Ignited : How Steam Power Arrived on the Nile and Integrated Egypt into Industrial Capitalism (1820s-76)
Sammanfattning : How did fossil-fuelled technology find its way to Egypt on its way to global dominance? This thesis presents a socioecological history of energy technologies in agrarian production in pre-colonial Egypt (1820s – 76). It situates them in the nineteenth century, understood as the beginning of the epoch of the Capitalocene; and in Egypt’s case, this is simultaneously part of the rise of Britain’s fossil empire. LÄS MER
3. Sunrise of an Industry : Solar Energy under Financial and Industrial Capitalism in the U.S. and Japan, 1973 - 2005
Sammanfattning : The thesis addresses the question of how to mitigate climate change by studying the emergence of solar photovoltaic energy as an example of a low carbon industry. By outlining the social conditions behind the growth of that industry, I aim to further the understanding of low carbon industrial development in general. LÄS MER
4. Growth, Accumulation, Crisis : With New Macroeconomic Data for Sweden 1800-2000
Sammanfattning : This dissertation has two main objectives. The first one is to construct historical macroeconomic series for Sweden using a consistent method throughout the relevant periods, and which rely on modern methods of national accounting. LÄS MER
5. Fair Enough? : Ecologically Unequal Exchange, International Trade, and Environmental Justice
Sammanfattning : The theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) posits that contemporary international trade facilitates a net flow of resources from the peripheral global South to feed industrial processes and capital accumulation in the core North. This situation, it is argued, imperils the development of the South. LÄS MER
