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View article: Introducing the Quantum Economic Advantage Online Calculator
Introducing the Quantum Economic Advantage Online Calculator Open
Developing a systematic view of where quantum computers will outperform classical ones is important for researchers, policy makers and business leaders. But developing such a view is challenging because quantum advantage analyses depend no…
View article: Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work
Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work Open
As the boundaries of ‘work’ extend to include work that adapts to or brings about new organization, social value and alternative futures, it intersects with entrepreneurship studies in intriguing yet under-developed ways. This special issu…
View article: Rural entrepreneurship as-practice: a framework for research beyond stereotypical notions of entrepreneurial agency and contextual constraints
Rural entrepreneurship as-practice: a framework for research beyond stereotypical notions of entrepreneurial agency and contextual constraints Open
Rural entrepreneurship scholarship has long underscored the importance of contextual conditions that enable or constrain entrepreneurial activities. However, contextual relations are, at times, characterized by a stereotypical or superfici…
View article: Implementing circular business models in linear economic systems: The case of a new venture addressing the embeddedness paradox
Implementing circular business models in linear economic systems: The case of a new venture addressing the embeddedness paradox Open
Circular business models (CBMs) operate within predominantly linear economic systems which creates a ‘paradox of embeddedness’. That is, paradoxically the processes and ties that create a fit with the linear environment – necessary to impl…
View article: The AI Risk Repository
The AI Risk Repository Open
The risks posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are of considerable concern to academics, auditors, policymakers, AI companies, and the public. However, a lack of shared understanding of AI risks can impede our ability to comprehensively d…
View article: The AI Risk Repository: A Comprehensive Meta-Review, Database, and Taxonomy of Risks From Artificial Intelligence
The AI Risk Repository: A Comprehensive Meta-Review, Database, and Taxonomy of Risks From Artificial Intelligence Open
The risks posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are of considerable concern to academics, auditors, policymakers, AI companies, and the public. However, a lack of shared understanding of AI risks can impede our ability to comprehensively d…
View article: A Model for Estimating the Economic Costs of Computer Vision Systems That Use Deep Learning
A Model for Estimating the Economic Costs of Computer Vision Systems That Use Deep Learning Open
Deep learning, the most important subfield of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) over the last decade, is considered one of the fundamental technologies underpinning the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But despite its record-b…
View article: Algorithmic progress in language models
Algorithmic progress in language models Open
We investigate the rate at which algorithms for pre-training language models have improved since the advent of deep learning. Using a dataset of over 200 language model evaluations on Wikitext and Penn Treebank spanning 2012-2023, we find …
View article: The Compute Divide in Machine Learning: A Threat to Academic Contribution and Scrutiny?
The Compute Divide in Machine Learning: A Threat to Academic Contribution and Scrutiny? Open
There are pronounced differences in the extent to which industrial and academic AI labs use computing resources. We provide a data-driven survey of the role of the compute divide in shaping machine learning research. We show that a compute…
View article: Drug repurposing for paediatric oncology indications: overview of possible approaches and illustration of a case study
Drug repurposing for paediatric oncology indications: overview of possible approaches and illustration of a case study Open
Children are receiving only a fraction of the advances in new adult cancer treatments. Whilst cancer survival rates for children have improved significantly over the last 20 years, for some specific cancers we have not seen a substantial i…
View article: Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D
Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D Open
Since its emergence around 2010, deep learning has rapidly become the most important technique in Artificial Intelligence (AI), producing an array of scientific firsts in areas as diverse as protein folding, drug discovery, integrated chip…
View article: Introduction to Teaching Social Work
Introduction to Teaching Social Work Open
The introduction sets the scene for the book as a whole by discussing a number of important points, beginning with the complex nature of social work as being 'caught in the middle' between the needs of the citizens it serves and the wider …
View article: Index
Index Open
There are particular challenges involved in teaching social work. As with other professional disciplines, it is not simply a matter of passing on the key elements of the knowledge base; there is also the need to equip students to be able t…
View article: Effective education
Effective education Open
Chapter One lays the foundations for the rest of the book. It is divided into five sections, beginning with a discussion of the question: Why am I learning this? The focus here is on making sure that students are aware of why they need to …
View article: References
References Open
There are particular challenges involved in teaching social work. As with other professional disciplines, it is not simply a matter of passing on the key elements of the knowledge base; there is also the need to equip students to be able t…
View article: Concepts as Mirrors and Torches: Rigor and Relevance as Scholarly Performativity
Concepts as Mirrors and Torches: Rigor and Relevance as Scholarly Performativity Open
This article aims to further the rigor and relevance discussion in entrepreneurship studies. It argues that tensions arise due to an adherence to a rigor-as-correspondence perspective, which can be addressed through the advancement of a ri…
View article: Intentional and serendipitous diffusion of ideas: Evidence from academic conferences
Intentional and serendipitous diffusion of ideas: Evidence from academic conferences Open
This paper investigates the effects of seeing ideas presented in-person when they are easily accessible online. Presentations may increase the diffusion of ideas intentionally (when one attends the presentation of an idea of interest) and …
View article: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice Open
Entrepreneurship as Practice has steadily gained momentum as a scholarly community over the past several years. The Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice (EaP) is a product of this momentum and collective movement towards theor…
View article: Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making
Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making Open
The study of future-making – how practitioners make and enact imagined futures – has become a cornerstone for understanding the temporal dynamics of organization, strategy and entrepreneurship. This article investigates the texture of prac…
View article: Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies
Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies Open
In this article, we contend that entrepreneurship studies would greatly benefit from engagement with contemporary theorizations of practice. The practice tradition conceives of the process of entrepreneuring as the enactment and entangleme…
View article: Viewing entrepreneurship “in motion”: Exploring current uses and future possibilities of video-based entrepreneurship research
Viewing entrepreneurship “in motion”: Exploring current uses and future possibilities of video-based entrepreneurship research Open
Video research methods provide a powerful yet accessible way for researchers to observe and theorize entrepreneurial phenomena by analyzing entrepreneurship "in motion." Despite the growing uptake of video data in entrepreneurship research…