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Alberto Galasso, "The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital" (Rotman-UTP Publishing, 2024)

Despite the importance of innovation for the growth of firms, industries, and the national economy, the strategic tools available to effectively manage and create new technologies are often neglected by entrepreneurs and corporate managers. The Manag... more

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David Arditi, "Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok" (Anthem Press, 2026)

Who makes a living from the music industry? In Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok (Anthem Press, 2026) David Arditi, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington, looks at... more

7 Apr 2026 • 40 min

Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)

The Origins of the New (Princeton University Press, 2026) presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this groundbreaking book, Douglas Erwin takes readers on a dazzling excursion across science and history to ... more

6 Apr 2026 • 47 min

Wout Saelens, "Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries" (Leuven UP, 2026)

Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (Leuven UP, 2026) by Dr. Wout Saelens explores how the homes of ordinary city dwellers sparked our modern dependence on fossil fuels. Drawing on a rich variety of... more

4 Apr 2026 • 1 hr 17 min

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David Arditi

Author and scholar discussing music technology panic narratives beyond piracy

Anthem Press

Episode: David Arditi, "Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok" (Anthem Press, 2026)

Douglas Erwin

Independent researcher at the Santa Fe Institute; former senior scientist and curator of paleobiology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Santa Fe Institute

Episode: Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Wout Saelens

Author of Fossil Consumerism, Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries

Leuven University Press; University of Antwerp; Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Episode: Wout Saelens, "Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries" (Leuven UP, 2026)

Ben Collier

Senior Lecturer in Digital Methods, University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

Episode: Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

Sam Illingworth

Full professor; expertise in critical AI literacy

Edinburgh Napier University

Episode: Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Rachel Forsyth

Senior Educational Developer; researcher on AI in education

Lund University

Episode: Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

César Hidalgo

Physicist and Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, Director of the Center for Collective Learning

Toulouse School of Economics

Episode: César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)

Marianna Dudley

Environmental historian, University of Bristol

University of Bristol

Episode: Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)

Britt Paris

Author of Radical Infrastructure, Associate Professor at Rutgers School of Communication and Information

Rutgers University

Episode: Britt Paris, "Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up" (U California Press, 2025)

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Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Q: How do public goods influence the emergence of innovations, according to your work?

Public goods, such as mathematics and basic research, provide the foundational substrate that enables future innovations to emerge, because they are not easily monetizable but are essential for enabling broader technological and biological progress over long timescales.

Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Q: Why is the concept of creating new opportunity spaces important, and how does it apply beyond biology?

Creating new opportunity spaces, or chessboard-like frameworks, allows evolution or culture to explore fundamentally new possibilities rather than merely exploiting existing ones; this view is reinforced by examples like the Antikythera Mechanism and the development of digital computers, which show space creation can drive major technological revolutions.

Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Q: Professor Erwin, your book tackles the distinction between novelty and innovation. Can you walk us through the four-phase model?

The four-phase model starts with potentiation, where prior events or conditions set the stage; then novelty, where a new feature or trait appears; followed by refinement, where the novelty is shaped by natural selection or cultural processes; and finally innovation, which entails a restructuring of entire systems enabling long-term persistence and success.

César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)

Q: Why are master-planned cities and state-led investments often disappointing in practice?

Because knowledge creation relies on dense, local interactions and tacit know-how that emerge from existing knowledge ecosystems. Simply pouring money into buildings or top-down plans ignores the need for connected, capable people and the organic diffusion of knowledge across activities.

César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)

Q: Can you summarize the central thesis of your framework for knowledge accumulation?

The central thesis is that knowledge is an infinite, highly differentiated set of pieces that combine to create new capabilities. Its growth is governed by time, space, and value—regularities that describe how knowledge is learned, moved across places, and valued in economies.

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