[PDF] Engineering As A Social Enterprise eBook

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309044316

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How is society influenced by engineering and technology? How in turn does society shape engineering and technology? This book from the National Academy of Engineering explores ways in which technology and society form inseparable elements in a complex sociotechnical system. The essays in this volume are based on the proposition that many forces move and shape engineering, technology, culture, and society. Six specialists both inside and outside the field of engineering offer views on how engineering responds to society's needs and how social forces shape what engineers do and what they can achieve.

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309083621

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How is society influenced by engineering and technology? How in turn does society shape engineering and technology? This book from the National Academy of Engineering explores ways in which technology and society form inseparable elements in a complex sociotechnical system. The essays in this volume are based on the proposition that many forces move and shape engineering, technology, culture, and society. Six specialists both inside and outside the field of engineering offer views on how engineering responds to society's needs and how social forces shape what engineers do and what they can achieve.

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309156947

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Engineering, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development is the first in a series of biennial workshops on the theme of engineering ethics and engineering leadership. This workshop addresses conflicting positive goals for engineering projects in impoverished areas and areas in crisis. These conflicts arise domestically as well as in international arenas. The goals of project sponsors and participants, which are often implicit, include protecting human welfare, ensuring social justice, and striving for environmental sustainability alongside the more often explicit goal of economic development or progress. The workshop, summarized in this volume, discussed how to achieve the following: Improve research in engineering ethics. Improve engineering practice in situations of crisis and conflict. Improve engineering education in ethics and social issues. Involve professional societies in these efforts.

Author : Éidín Ní Shé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 331968115X

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Given the global crises confronting the world today, it is important to interrogate the notion of “the modern state” and to evaluate its effectiveness in providing security and services for its populations, including the most disadvantaged and vulnerable. This book investigates the modern state’s capacity to serve its constituents by examining the organisations that facilitate two key elements of contemporary living: social capital and social enterprise. These elements are explored in a series of rich case studies located in Australia, Ireland and Bangladesh, with broader implications for policy and practice in the rest of the world. The case studies highlight the growing importance of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in fostering social capital and in contributing to the idea of “the enabling state”. This book will appeal to researchers, policy-makers and community leaders working in business, education, employment pathways, homelessness, housing, local government, mental health, public administration and refugee resettlement.

Author : Carl Frankel
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0865717303

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Mission driven—business as a vehicle for change.

Author : Kamel Boussafi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030609332

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This proceedings book is of interest to all researchers and heads of technology laboratories; incubator managers; local and parliamentary elected officials; associations and civil society; social entrepreneurs; foundations interested in social life in Mediterranean region and prospective creative startup students. The purpose of book on social and social-tech innovation synergy and its practical implication on social entrepreneurship is to address the following question: - How can the experiences of the countries be combined of the north and south shores of the Mediterranean and reflect on the different opportunities offered by the new technology to cope with the various social scourges that the region has experienced in recent years? the problem of immigration. It is also about finding advanced technology applications that will solve, on a large scale, the major social challenges of our time. - How to exploit the innumerable synergies between digital and social entrepreneurship? - Why social entrepreneurs are struggling to seize digital tools to develop their socially innovative projects? - What about their ability to integrate digital into the realization and development of these projects? - How can we combine the experiences of the countries of the north and south shores of the Mediterranean and reflect on the different opportunities offered by the new technology to cope with the various social scourges that the region has experienced in recent years? the problem of immigration.