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ISSN 0810-9028 (Print)
ISSN 1470-1030 (Online)
GENERAL EDITOR
Stuart Macdonald (s.macdonald@123456sheffield.ac.uk)
Leicester University, UK
EDITORS
Peter Drahos
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia (peter.drahos@123456anu.edu.au)
Areas of expertise: patents, intellectual property, trade, regulatory and governance theory.
Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht
Department of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand (H.Engelbrecht@123456massey.ac.nz)
Areas of expertise: information/knowledge-based economy/policy/society, economic growth and knowledge spillovers, the role of human capital, happiness economics, behavioural economics related to the information/knowledge-based economy
Richard Hawkins
Science, Technology and Society Program, University of Calgary, Canada (rhawkins@123456ucalgary.ca)
Areas of expertise: research policy, innovation theory and policy, university-industry collaboration, intellectual property, standards, technical regulation, electronic media industries
Steven Henderson
Southampton Solent University, UK (profsteven.henderson@123456gmail.com)
Areas of expertise: strategic management, organisational learning, critical thinking
Richard Joseph
130 Orange Valley Road, Kalamunda, WA, Australia (rajoseph4342@123456hotmail.com)
Areas of expertise: science and technology policy, Australian government policy, academic freedom and managerialism
Karmo Kroos
Department of Economics, Estonian Business School, Estonia (karmo.kroos@123456ebs.ee)
Areas of expertise: theories of social change, elites as agents of social change, the role of the university, higher education policy, sociology of knowledge, Central and Eastern Europe
Robin Mansell
Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK (r.e.mansell@123456lse.ac.uk)
Areas of expertise: internet governance, telecommunications policy and regulation, social impact of new media, political economy of media and communication, development and ICTs
Martin Meyer
Business School, University of Aberdeen, UK (martin.meyer@123456abdn.ac.uk)
Areas of expertise: science and technology indicators, university-industry technology transfer, third mission, triple helix, intellectual property management, science-based innovation, new technologies (especially nanotechnology), technological systems, sectoral systems of innovation, programme evaluation
Joanne Roberts
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Winchester, UK (J.Roberts@123456soton.ac.uk)
Areas of expertise: knowledge economy, knowledge creation and transfer communities of practice, business services, internationalisation of services, information and communication technologies innovation systems
Kevin Scally
Cork University School of Business (CUBS), University College Cork, Ireland (k.scally@123456ucc.ie)
Areas of expertise: invention and design; USPTO patents and innovation; IP and nonprofits; software usability; creativity, iconoclasm and play
Uta Wehn
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in partnership with UNESCO, Delft, The Netherlands (u.wehn@123456un-ihe.org)
Areas of expertise: knowledge, ICTs and innovation for development; inter-organisational data and knowledge sharing; knowledge management; capacity development; innovation systems; water innovation studies; citizen science
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Steven Umbrello
Managing director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging technologies, Boston MA (stevenumbrello@123456yahoo.com)
WEBSITE DESIGN
Simon Dunn
Cover Credit: Laconian cup with the punishment of Atlas and Prometheus. Vatican, Gregorian Museum of the Etruscan Art.
© 2020. Photo Scala, Florence
Prometheus
Volume 40 Issue 1 March 2024
CONTENTS
Editorial – Whistleblowing in medicine 5
Stuart Macdonald
Research papers
An analysis of the UK’s commercial stem cell clinics 7
Megan Smith, Kate Goodheart, Claudia Fryer, Tomas Balcytis, Peter Wilmshurst and Patricia Murray
Wit and wisdom: using computational humor to communicate about Economics 20
Iacob Postavaru, Emilia Bunea, Crina Pungulescu and David Stolin
Why university social responsibility initiatives can backfire and what to do about it 32
Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi and Marie Stadge
Review essay
Anthony Elliott, Algorithmic Intimacy – the Digital Revolution in Personal Relationship 47
reviewed by Emilio Mordini
Book review
Data Cartels: the Companies that Control and Monopolize our Information, Sarah Lamdan 56
reviewed by Brian Martin
Special issue – call for papers
Reimagining the Critical in Innovation Studies 60