- Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Marketing and Media, Faculty Memberadd
- Open Innovation, User Innovation, Creative Industries, Migration Studies, Russian Studies, Performing Arts, and 17 moreExperimental Forms of Performing Arts, Devolution, politics and social poilicy, Regional and Local Governance, Sociology of Arts, Cultural Studies, Cultural Industry, Branding, Additive Manufacturing, Design, Underground Economies, Creative City, Digital Culture, Collaborative Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Social Innovation, Design for Social Innovation, and Urban And Regional Planningedit
- Assistant Professor at Corvinus University. Lecturing Economic Sociology, Organizational Sociology, Sociology of Arts... moreAssistant Professor at Corvinus University. Lecturing Economic Sociology, Organizational Sociology, Sociology of Arts, Branding, Innovation and Cultural Industries, and Studies on Russiaedit
Division of labor and resources across the former Soviet countries is shaped by the heritage of dependency structures rooting back to centuries of expansion of the Russian Empire and the centralized allocation of production within the... more
Division of labor and resources across the former Soviet countries is shaped by the heritage of dependency structures rooting back to centuries of expansion of the Russian Empire and the centralized allocation of production within the planning economy of the Soviet Union. The transition affected all the countries of the area, inducing movement of people for citizenship, labor, trade, or peace. Most vulnerable countries proved to be those, whose economy relied on agriculture, or showed traits of energy-dependence. Countries that lacked natural resources or the potential to transform their economies to productive ones supply their labor force as a survival strategy, creating remittances- dependence. Zooming into the post-Soviet area reveals a particular structure. On one hand there is a tendency of diverging and loosening ties between the countries, on the other hand dense interrelatedness is still present on many levels. First, I give an overview of the Soviet legacies, then I look at the data in search for patterns of exchange or rivalry defining relationships and the possible vulnerability of given states within the area. In search of the structures behind the flow of people I am interested in how dependency structures shape the interrelation of the countries of the post-Soviet area. This study relies on the descriptive and dynamic statistical account rather than historical as explanatory, based on country-level data. Overarching the past 25 years, my focus falls on current trends relying on data of the past 5-10 years.
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This paper presents an open table design project introduced by a high-end kitchen producing company in collaboration with maker communities, independent designers and the wider public. The case illustrates a hybrid open/collaborative... more
This paper presents an open table design project introduced by a high-end kitchen producing company in collaboration with maker communities, independent designers and the wider public. The case illustrates a hybrid open/collaborative innovation strategy, strategically adapted by a rm for raising awareness, en- gaging the public, to raise its design options, and enriching its core design concepts.
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Digital fabricators print musical instruments, they explore the ways of creating music in the intersection and beyond of digital and electronic. They also explore how visual and audio meet, either by visualizing music or developing... more
Digital fabricators print musical instruments, they explore the ways of creating music in the intersection and beyond of digital and electronic. They also explore how visual and audio meet, either by visualizing music or developing solutions connecting visual expression to music perception and production. Anybody can transgress the blurred borders of creators and consumers of content in the digital arena. I invite taking a glance at the world of digital fabrication to understand the relationship of experimentation from the angle of rapid digital development affecting the music scene and what we perceive as relationship of audiovisual digital. This paper takes stock of the strands in experimentation with musical instruments and sounds by maker communities and entrepreneurs.
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The rise and fall of the Soviet Union shapes the migration patterns of the post-soviet area to today. Ethnic conflicts, wars, political unrest has dominated as a push factor for the first migration waves in the region. Ethnic minorities... more
The rise and fall of the Soviet Union shapes the migration patterns of the post-soviet area to today. Ethnic conflicts, wars, political unrest has dominated as a push factor for the first migration waves in the region. Ethnic minorities fled from the former republics toward Western destinations in the wake of the nineties. Ethnic return policies supported population movements within the former USSR. Migration patterns have transformed since toward massive contemporary labour migration, which has its legacies in the former central planning of the USSR defining the development paths and the structure of the economies of the sending and receiving countries of the post-soviet area. States faceing poverty and decline provide their labour force to Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Western destination countries. The former USSR despite of its dense economic and trade ties, after the collapse stepped on the path of desintegration.
Az egykori Szovjetunió migrációs rendszere a mai napig meghatározza a posztszovjet térség migrációs mintáit. A Szovjetunió felbomlását követően az új államok etnikai konfliktusok, politikai feszültség, háború közepette jöttek létre, melyet a kényszerű migráció, illetve az állampolgárság megszerzéséért irányuló etnikai mozgások jellemeztek. Ez utóbbiakat az új államok repatriációs politikái támogatták. Az etnikai kisebbségek jelentős számban hagyták el a térséget nyugati desztinációk felé. A globális munkamegosztás szempontjából a térség küldő szerepben van kelet-nyugat irányban. Az egykori központi tervgazdaság kijelölte a térség régióinak fejlődési útját és gazdasági szerkezetét, meghatározva a küldő és fogadó országok mai szerepét a regionális és világgazdaságban. A szegénységgel küzdő, leszakadó államok globális munkamegosztás szempontjából küldő szerepben vannak Oroszország, Kazahsztán, Belarusz és a nyugati államok felé. A posztszovjet térség meghatározó gazdasági, kereskedelmi és kulturális kapcsolatai gyengülni látszanak, a térség dezintegrációja figyelhető meg.
Az egykori Szovjetunió migrációs rendszere a mai napig meghatározza a posztszovjet térség migrációs mintáit. A Szovjetunió felbomlását követően az új államok etnikai konfliktusok, politikai feszültség, háború közepette jöttek létre, melyet a kényszerű migráció, illetve az állampolgárság megszerzéséért irányuló etnikai mozgások jellemeztek. Ez utóbbiakat az új államok repatriációs politikái támogatták. Az etnikai kisebbségek jelentős számban hagyták el a térséget nyugati desztinációk felé. A globális munkamegosztás szempontjából a térség küldő szerepben van kelet-nyugat irányban. Az egykori központi tervgazdaság kijelölte a térség régióinak fejlődési útját és gazdasági szerkezetét, meghatározva a küldő és fogadó országok mai szerepét a regionális és világgazdaságban. A szegénységgel küzdő, leszakadó államok globális munkamegosztás szempontjából küldő szerepben vannak Oroszország, Kazahsztán, Belarusz és a nyugati államok felé. A posztszovjet térség meghatározó gazdasági, kereskedelmi és kulturális kapcsolatai gyengülni látszanak, a térség dezintegrációja figyelhető meg.
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Scholarship on open innovation examines the different shades of opening up the innovation process of firms, where the most important feature is sourcing in knowledge. In this paper I examine the implications of adapting open innovation... more
Scholarship on open innovation examines the different shades of opening up the innovation process of firms, where the most important feature is sourcing in knowledge. In this paper I examine the implications of adapting open innovation frames to a field where it was not investigated before: performing arts (contemporary dance and theatre). I draw on case studies and demonstrate that open innovation strategies are viable for artistic production. Independent companies purposefully mining out external knowledge in production, and commercializing on the spillovers of their body of knowledge put themselves on the shelf of firms adopting and adapting to open innovation.
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Starting from the Schumpeterian producer-driven understanding of innovation, followed by user-generated solutions and understanding of collaborative forms of co-creation, scholars investigated the drivers and the nature of interactions... more
Starting from the Schumpeterian producer-driven understanding of innovation, followed by user-generated solutions and understanding of collaborative forms of co-creation, scholars investigated the drivers and the nature of interactions underpinning success in various ways. Innovation literature has gone a long way, where open innovation has attracted researchers to investigate problems like compatibilities of external resources, networks of innovation, or open source collaboration. Openness itself has gained various shades in the different strands of literature. In this paper I provide with an overview and a draft evaluation of the different models of open innovation, illustrated with some empirical findings from various fields drawn from the literature. I point to the relevance of transaction costs affecting viable forms of (open) innovation strategies of firms, and the importance to define the locus of innovation for further analyses of different firm and interaction level formations.
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As commonly expressed, populism is a synonym of demagogy, or an adjective used to describe and criticize the set of tools of a political movement. The meaning of democracy as constructed by language users is dynamically-changing and... more
As commonly expressed, populism is a synonym of demagogy, or an adjective used to describe and criticize the set of tools of a political movement. The meaning of democracy as constructed by language users is dynamically-changing and contextually bound. The interpretation of these two concepts is even more confused from a historical perspective as both the words democracy and populism have served to indicate a range of (in some cases diverging) phenomena, although they are perceived as being from the same semantic and contextual family. (Book Review)
