Introduction to Managerial Accounting :Managerial and cost Accounting
Larry M Walther, Christopher J Skousen
Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation : Organisational and National Conditions
Christian Wittrock
An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI
Christoph Bartneck, Christoph Lütge, Alan Wagner, Sean Welsh
RRI is the acronym for Responsible Research and Innovation, a key cross-cutting issue in the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 funding programme for research and innovation. RRI seeks a new relation between society, research and innovation, to better align both the process and its outcomes with the values, needs and expectations of society. RRI has been promoted as offering a response to current challenges in the research and innovation landscape that include public mistrust of science, scandals related to research misconduct, questions of scientific integrity and independence, tensions and dilemmas surrounding current patterns of industrialised scientific production, and the need for democratic input in the development of innovation and emerging technology. For the European Commission, RRI is implemented as a package that connects five so-called policy keys or priority areas, namely the take-up of research ethics and gender equality in research and innovation, the development of formal and informal science education and public engagement in science, and the pursuit of open access in scientific publications. In addition, a conceptual framework has been developed that frames RRI through four integrated dimensions—anticipation (A), inclusion (I), reflexivity (R), and responsiveness (R), the AIRR framework—that provides a scaffold for raising, discussing and responding to questions of societal concern, deemed to be characteristics of a more responsible vision of innovation. This framework has been operationalised by national funding bodies, integrated in research practice, and is referred to in this book as the RRI process dimensions. Drawing on research from the European Horizon 2020 RRI-Practice project, we examine barriers and drivers for the implementation of Responsible Research and Innovation across the RRI policy keys and process dimensions in 23 research conducting and funding organisations world-wide. In Part I, drawing on neo-institutional theory, we explore the structural, cultural and interchange dimensions of RRI implementation in organisations. In Part II, drawing on the sociotechnical imaginary concept, we analyse and compare national discourses and practices on science, technology and xi innovation (STI). In Part III, we tie Parts I and II together and reflect on commonalities and differences between the methodologies, the wider implications for international science governance and for practitioners who intend to use RRI to foster organisational change. The book uses twelve national reports from the project as its main data source.
Rational Cybersecurity for Business : The Security Leaders’ Guide to Business Alignment
Dan Blum
This book is a Security Leaders’ Guide to aligning with the business. If you are a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Head of Security with a similar title, a security manager, or a security team member providing leadership to the business, this book is for you.
Management of Research Infrastructures : A South African Funding Perspective
Rakeshnie Ramoutar-Prieschl, Sepo Hachigonta
This book provides an overview of the building blocks necessary for managing, steering and guiding the establishment of a RI. It acts as a reference tool for RI investment, access and management at the academic, grants management, agency and policy level. This book is also useful for the research community, students, research-performing entities and the private sector who have a keen interest in understanding the approaches and opportunities linked to the stablishment,maintenance and management of RI platforms.
Programming for Computations -Python :A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python 3.6, 2nd Ed.
Svein Linge
This second edition of the book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems and represents a major revision: all code is now written in Python version 3.6 (the first edition was based on Python version 2.7). The first two chapters of the previous edition have been extended and split up into five new chapters, thus expanding the introduction to programming from 50 to 150 pages. Throughout, explanations are now more complete, previous examples have been modified, and new sections, examples, and exercises have been added. Also, errors and typos have been corrected. The book was inspired by the Springer book TCSE 6, A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (by Langtangen), but the style is more accessible and concise in keeping with the needs of engineering students. The book outlines the shortest possible path from no previous experience with programming to a set of skills that allows the students to write simple programs for solving common mathematical problems with numerical methods in engineering and science courses. The emphasis is on generic algorithms, clean design of programs, use of functions, and automatic tests for verification.
The basics of finance: an introduction to financial markets, business finance, and portfolio management
Frank J. Fabozzi, Pamela Peterson Drake
The Entrepreneurial Society : A Reform Strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK
Mark Sanders, Axel Marx, Mikael Stenkula
This book provides an excellent overview of how to improve the Entrepreneurial Society in the context of the European Union, and more particular its member states Italy, Germany and the UK. Improving the Entrepreneurial Society is a process of trial-and-error. One can go through this process in the dark or be illuminated by multiple scientific disciplines. This book, and the FIRES project at large, is a multidisciplinary endeavor that sheds light from multiple scientific disciplines on the question and challenge of how to build a more Entrepreneurial Society. It might look like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, in which each blind man feels part of the animal and creates his own version of reality from that limited experience and perspective
Diversity and Inclusion in Global Higher Education : Lessons from Across Asia
Catherine Shea Sanger, Nancy W. Gleason
Diversity in the classroom is a valuable opportunity to enrich student learning. Significant trends impacting the Asian higher education environment are creating new prospects and imperatives to harness diversity for learning.1 Student and faculty mobility continues apace. New institutions of higher education are being forged through international and intra-regional partnerships, while older institutions are experimenting with innovative pedagogies.
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