Prometheus
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editora | Informa (GB) |
| ISSN | 0810-9028 / 1470-1030 |
| Scopus | 20224 |
| OpenAlex | S4210215475 |
| MAG | 4210215475 |
| Site | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpro20/current |
| Total de publicações | 955 |
| Período coberto | 1983 - 2026 |
| País | AU |
| Idioma | EN |
| Acesso | Open Access • OA Diamante |
| Indexação | DOAJ • Scopus |
| Citada por | 64 |
| Fator de impacto | 0.3 |
| SJR | 0.234 (Q3) |
| SNIP | 0.401 |
| CiteScore | 2.1 |
| Índice h | 5 |
| Índice i10 | 2 |
Prometheus focuses on issues of innovation, technology, and policy, aligning closely with Science and Technology Studies (STS). STS is a closely cognate field that frequently publishes work relevant to social anthropologists
Earth-Surface Processes · Geography, Planning and Development · Strategy and Management · Management of Technology and Innovation · Research and Theory · Australian History and Society · Business Strategy and Innovation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Platforms and Economics · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
My Intellectual Odyssey
Exploration of the origins and development of disruptive innovation theory
Disruptive innovation represents a strategic approach that gradually displaces existing mainstream products by introducing performance attributes valued by low-end or emerging market users. This study conceptualizes disruptive innovation through two primary dimensions – product-technology and market-enterprise, underpinned by an analysis of publication trends, prominent journals and research hotspots in the field. The research systematically cate…
Comparing logics of organizing across Plato, Aristotle and Machiavelli
Examining the writings of foundational Western political philosophers has led to past insights on leadership implications for managers in general, but what can we learn from such writings and their logics of organizing under uncertainty that may inform innovation management and the pursuit of responsible innovation? This conceptual research paper examines select writings from Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli. Focusing on The Republic , Politics …
Higher education research on the dark side of digitalisation
Digitalisation is assumed to extend the reach of higher education through asynchronous and online learning and is predominantly framed in positive terms in public discourse and academic research. Given that critical perspectives have emerged in a relatively limited and fragmented manner, this systematic literature review seeks to bring greater coherence to research on the darker sides of digital transformation, particularly in the post-COVID-19 c…
Latent optics
This article examines the dynamics of surveillance as a form of peripheral vision – a diffuse, indirect mode of observation increasingly embedded in hyperconnected urban environments. Focusing on the widespread deployment of CCTV, it explores how contemporary surveillance operates less through overt control and more through an unobtrusive, continuous presence. Such conditions give rise to what is conceptualised here as soft dependence, a socio-te…
The paradox of global excellence and local relevance
Universities are increasingly influential in driving social and economic growth through technology transfer, particularly in resource-constrained settings. This study aims to improve knowledge regarding university-appropriate technology transfer as part of the university’s third mission, and to identify the key enablers and barriers in the technology transfer process in developing economies. Using a qualitative case study approach, we investigate…
Preprints as anticipatory infrastructures
Scientific breakthroughs rarely begin as polished theories; they emerge as raw, unfiltered ideas that challenge convention and demand cross-disciplinary exploration. Preprints have transformed this early stage of discovery, providing an open arena where unconventional concepts – once confined to lab notebooks or conference whispers – can be shared, debated and refined in real time. From CRISPR (Hossain, 2021) to AlphaFold (Jumper et al., 2021), h…
Playing catch-up
Innovative externally orientated management accounting techniques (EXMATs) may not deliver the benefits anticipated. The current study investigates whether, and to what extent, EXMATs create and sustain competitive advantage. Using a quantitative research design to investigate the subject over a ten-year time frame in the Nigerian manufacturing sector, we develop a measurement scale to evaluate the use of customer-focused and competitor-based acc…
Journal for sale? What offers?
‘Foreignize yourself’. What has translation to do with innovation? A translation studies approach to hybrid innovation
This paper develops a translation studies framework to analyse the mechanisms of knowledge exchange and communication occurring in the Anglo-Japanese context of Hybrid Innovation (HI) – a training programme linking academia and corporate industry held yearly at the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) in collaboration with Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. While HI is in part aligned to conventional ‘design thinking’ cou…
Automated plagiarism
The advent of large language models (LLMs) has triggered concerns about various issues, one of which is plagiarism. In contrast with two long-standing types of human plagiarism, competitive and institutionalised, LLMs introduce a new type, which can be called automated plagiarism. There are many possible responses to it, including ignoring it, banning it, polluting it, exposing it, labelling it and suing for copyright infringement. The rise of au…
From tools to symbols
This study examines how smartphones have evolved from functional tools into potent symbols of status, identity and social capital among young adults in urban Bangladesh. Drawing on qualitative case studies and digital urban ethnography in Dhaka, the research explores how these devices are embedded in everyday social performance and aspirational behavior. Grounded in attachment theory, the theory of attainment, mimetic desire and Bourdieu’s concep…
Generative artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis
This study addresses a critical gap in existing research by systematically comparing the performance of five popular large language models (LLMs) in supporting high-quality qualitative research. Our methodology combines a literature review of academic papers from 2020 to 2025 with a proof-of-concept experiment evaluating ScholarAI, ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, NotebookLM and Perplexity on key qualitative analysis tasks. We sought to determine h…
Impoverishing peer review
Bjørn Lomborg, False Alarm
Bas de Boer, How Scientific Instruments Speak
How does innovation arise in the bicycle sector? The users’ role and their betrayal in the case of the ‘gravel bike’
This paper examines the emergence of the ‘gravel bike’, a new and successful category of sports bicycles that gained prominence in the global cycling industry in the late 2010s, to advance the understanding of the role of users in the processes of sociotechnical innovation. The study traces the development of gravel cycling and the gravel bike within the framework of science and technology studies (STS), introducing the concept of ‘user betrayal’…
Von Hippel innovation
Round about 1940, a number of elements related to innovation processes were pulled together and organized as ‘Schumpeterian innovation’. The result was to provide framing and focus – a useful new paradigm – to guide further innovation-related research. Today, we have reached the same point with respect to a new collection of innovation phenomena, defined relatively recently, that together contribute to a fundamentally different innovation paradig…
Health and medical researchers are willing to trade their results for journal impact factors
The fixation of the research community on the prestige of journals harms research quality as some researchers focus on where to publish instead of what. We examined researchers’ publication preferences using a discrete choice experiment in a cross-sectional survey of international health and medical researchers. We asked researchers to consider two hypothetical journals and decide which one they would prefer. The hypothetical journals varied in t…
In search of an author
While Smith's author once had a life, the same cannot be said of Ike Antkare, who had 102 publications to his name and an h-index of 94 in April 2010, making him the world's 21st most-cited scientist.There is no Ike Antkare and there never has been ( Labb, 2020), though he continues to publish (e.g., Antkare, 2020).A dog, a hamster, a parrot and chimpanzees have all been listed as academic authors ( Penders and Shaw, 2020).Even Larry the Cat has …
Turning sportswashing against sportswashers
We examine how sportswashing can be transformed into an opportunity to advance the morally charged cause(s) that prompted its use. After characterizing sportswashing through a literature review, we develop conceptual arguments that show how sportswashing can bring positive change. We employ a two-dimensional framework, incorporating control over media narratives and the capacity for action, to map the extent to which cause promoters can leverage …
The death and resurrection of manuscript submission systems
State secrets and compromises with capitalism
Known as a pioneer of electronic music, Lev Theremin (1896–1993) had a career as an inventor which stretched the entire span of the Soviet Union’s existence. He witnessed the upheavals of war, terror and revolution firsthand but also tried his luck as an inventor in the United States. With an emphasis on the Soviet Union, this paper uses the case of Theremin – including the years he spent in the United States – as a lens through which intellectua…
Creating value through service innovation
Research reveals the disjointed nature of service innovation and an overall desertion in studies towards cumulative knowledge development. Studies also show a lack of focus on customers and employees as the fundamental resources for innovation and value creation. The purpose of this study is to investigate how service innovation can be more comprehensive, systematic and focused on the customer and employee resources of the firm. A constructivist …
As open as possible, but as closed as necessary
Innovation research has grown steadily over the years, with different foci and methodological approaches. The abundance of literature on the topic makes clear that innovative processes are at the centre of many narratives, in academia, the public sector in general and in industry. This contribution scopes the literature and traces some key considerations regarding a determining factor: openness. The paper explores the literature in order to narro…
Live Television's Disaster Marathon of September 11 and its Subversive Potential
Television's coverage of the tragic events of September 11 can be viewed and understood as a paradigmatic disaster marathon. The salience of the attack's visual images, their exclusivity on the screen for a protracted period, and the invisibility of their perpetrators enhanced the attack's effectiveness. The paper highlights a number of problems that the September 11 disaster marathon poses to the profession of journalism and to society, and poin…
Media anthropology for the digital age
Will Robots Take Your Job? is very well researched, yet short and succinct. It presents a wide range of arguments and provides a grand view of problems of technological unemployment. I strongly recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn more about the topic quickly, and to read about the main theories in the field without looking at (too many) primary sources. When it comes to solutions, however, Cameron is much more cautious. While some peo…
The media were American
by Jeremy Tunstall, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 465 + xiv pp., £31.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐19‐518147‐0 When I took Bill Clinton's My Life on a long flight as reading material some yea
Australian Journalists' Reactions to New Technology
The new technology which has revolutionised newsrooms over the last decade has been generally accepted by Australian journalists, who believe the quality of their work has improved and time savings have occurred. Older journalists are somewhat less enthusiastic, but when controlling for age there are no sex differences in reactions to technology. Journalists who are stressed and those who admit to being cynics are less sanguine about the benefits…
Information Subsidies, Journalism Routines and the Australian Media
Information technology is invariably equated with liberalization and greater citizen access to knowledge. However, some economies of scale made possible by technology, together with contemporary information-gathering and distribution processes, may diminish rather than enhance democratic practices. Analyses of the contributions of journalists and sources to television news reveal some consequences of technological innovation and organizational be…
Technological Sovereignty
Technological sovereignty is the capability and the freedom to select, to generate or acquire and to apply, build upon and exploit commercially technology needed for industrial innovation. It is to be distinguished from technological self-sufficiency, which is the possession of, or the ability to generate readily, all technology required. Australia's past failure to take the sovereignty factor into account has far-reaching implications for future…
The traditional knowledge movement in the Pacific Island countries
This paper explores the challenge of respecting the local nature of traditional knowledge in two Pacific Islands' regional initiatives. It argues that the embedded nature of traditional knowledge within the social fabric of Pacific Island communities necessitates an approach to regulation that respects existing customary laws and institutions, and contrasts this with the prevailing state-centred approaches. It also unpacks the different agendas b…
Invention and Innovation in Australia
There is a strong body of opinion that Australia‘s present technological achievement and poor attitudes to high technology development remain essentially ’colonial‘. This notion is a misconception. An overview study of some 100 inventors, technologists, and entrepreneurs indicates that vigorous attitudes to innovation prevailed in the Colonies in the nineteenth century and established for Australia some significant technological leads. Lessons fr…
Rhetoric and Representation in Australian Science in the 1940s and 1980s
The title of this paper is not meant to imply comprehensive treatment of developments in Australian science from the 1940s to the 1980s. Its more modest objective is to isolate particular parallels in the debates and rhetoric about science in these two decades. It argues that shifting political and economic contexts condition scientists' preferred strategies of self-legitimation. These shifts may cause major realignments within the scientific pow…
The Failure of a New Communications Technology in a Large Hospital Organisation
The failure of a Patient Monitor Nurse Call (PMNC) system in a large metropolitan teaching hospital is reported and an evaluation is carried out to establish the reasons for failure and future design requirements
High Technology Policy and the Silicon Valley Model
Australia seeks to emerge from the depths of recession and to break free from the syndrome of giving ever-increasing protection to a decaying manufacturing sector, by encouraging high technology industry. Silicon Valley, the home of much of the world's semiconductor industry, is often seen as the appropriate model for the development of such industry. For those used to dealing with the siting and encouragement of conventional industry, it can see…
Techniques for Guiding the Allocation of Resources Among Rural Research Projects
Diverse methods are available for evaluating benefits and costs of rural research projects. They have been developed in response to a felt need for information in a highly uncertain environment. These formal evaluation schemes are compared in an attempt to show whether any offer useful guidelines for rational allocation of research funds. The outcome is a series of conjectures on the level of effort to devote to research evaluation, and hence on …
Broadcasting in the 1920s
Australian broadcasting has always been subject to government regulation. This paper identifies fundamental changes in regulatory rules in the formative years of the 1920s and relates them to the interests they affected. Pressure by radio dealers determined the character of initial regulation and therefore the early shape of the broadcasting industry: private firms dependent on revenue from government-imposed listeners’ licence fees. Government i…
Informatics and Law Reform
The Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission identifies science and technology as one of the main factors necessitating reform of the law in Australia. The way in which informatics, one of the most dynamic technologies of today, has penetrated Australian society is described. The implications of this technology for two major projects before the Australian Law Reform Commission are then outlined. The first is the design of new laws to prot…
Australia's Dependence on Imported Technology – Some Issues for Discussion
This article assesses the extent of Australia's dependence on imported technology and discusses the effects this way have had on domestic research and development expenditure. Drawing upon recent studies of the operations of subsidiaries and branches of US multinational enterprises, some comments are made concerning their contribution to Australia's technological development. In conclusion a number of policy issues are raised
Telecommunications in Australia
Australian history has been conspicuously short on the examination of the history of technical subjects and of the role technological development has played in the country's evolution. As early as 1961, Geoffrey Blainey observed: “We historians are uneasy outside the old triad of political, social and religious history; we are inclined to avoid the history of technical subjects even more than did the historians of the last century with their narr…
The International Realpolitik of Science and Technology Policy
Reasons are considered for growing government intervention in scientific and technological progress, justifications for such interference and variations in the objectives sought by developed nations through their science and technology policies. Many governments of developed countries now place high priority on using science and technology policy to maintain and enhance the international competitiveness of their industries. It is hoped thereby to…
The Transfer of Industrial Technology to Western Pacific Developing Countries
This paper reviews recent evidence on technology transfer to the rapidly growing Western Pacific region, where most developing countries have adopted relatively liberal policies towards the importation of technology and equity capital. In recent years Japan has emerged as a major supplier of technology to the region. Moreover, there have been important changes in the international technology market, which has become larger and more competitive. N…
The Nature of Australian Regional Input-Output Multipliers
This paper presents the first general analysis of the multipliers derived from twenty-nine Australian regional (GRIT) input-output tables, ranging from metropolitan areas to quite isolated regions. The study attempts to summarise the formidable array of results, aiming to provide an empirical reference point for research into regional multipliers, to identify any regularities in the multiplier components and to suggest conclusions for general pol…
International Trade and Welfare Implications of Transborder Data Flows
All countries are finding their economic growth determined increasingly by investment in information technology. In the ultimate analysis, the welfare effects will be determined by which industries are strengthened or weakened. Whether the technology is benign or not depends on the objectives of international communication systems and the policies for achieving them. International policy must be geared to specific objectives
International Technology Transfer
International or multinational corporations have changed in the ways in which they handle technology development and transfer. Responding to various pressures that have emerged since the late 1970s, these international firms have moved towards increasing rationalisation of their technology activities. An increasingly significant development has involved the emergence of technology co-operation agreements amongst firms in various industries. The t…
Information Technology and Employment
This paper presents a brief review of the use of macroeconomic models in research on the employment implications of information technology. It makes particular reference to the Austrian study, Microelectronics: Applications, Diffusion and Effects in Austria. The major conclusion is that whilst such models have a value, this is dependent on assumptions made about how technology is used rather than simply upon levels of usage or rates of diffusion.…
Macroeconomics and Microelectronics — Results of a Study on Applications, Diffusion and Effects in Austria
This paper presents details of the model and results of the Austrian macroeconomic study of the employment implications of information technology, Microelectronics: Applications, Diffusion and Effects in Austria. The inadequacies of conventional econometric modeling and the political problems of policy implementation are emphasised
Simple Analytics of the Employment Impact of Technological Change
In the debate concerning the economic consequences of technological change much has been written about the possibility of job loss. Relatively few studies have used an explicit framework of micro- and macro-economic analysis to examine this topic, however. Assertions about the employment outcome of the process of technical change tend to involve pessimistic generalisations from particular cases or a resort to optimistic predictions based on elega…
An Absence of Malice
This paper addresses the impact of computers on the nuclear arms race and argues that improvements in computer technology have directly led to the diminishing warning and decision period available to human commanders in the event of an accidental outbreak of nuclear war. To support this thesis, a brief and general history of the application of computers to strategic weapons systems is given and evidence is presented which confirms the unreliabili…
Consulting Engineers and Technological Innovation in the Canadian Arctic Offshore Petroleum Industry
Consulting engineering and design organisations, known as CEDOs, are responsible for much of the extensive technological innovation in the Canadian arctic offshore petroleum industry over the past decade. This research is an exploration of the roles CEDOs play in the innovation process in ocean engineering systems. The CEDOs are not strong in organising the project actors, or in supplying project execution services, but they play a wide variety o…
The Role of Science and Technology in the Modernisation Plan for China
Science and technology have been promoted as one of the catalysts to create the new China. National planning seeks to consolidate and modernise the existing system. Such priority areas as energy, materials, computers and high energy physics have been distinguished. Much discussion has related to the difficulties of integrating science and technology policy with economic policy. Specific problems have been centralised control over research and dev…
Exogenous Factors in Economic Theory
Economists have frequently treated technological change as exogenous, as having important economic consequences but not being controlled by economic forces. This justifies reporting a current attempt to develop an international, interdisciplinary discussion of exogenous factors in economics
The Introduction of Cyaniding in New Zealand
This article explores the factors influencing entrepreneurial decisionmaking about the introduction of new technological processes in the gold mining companies of nineteenth century New Zealand. It attempts to estimate the significance of scientific discoveries to technological advance, and the influence of government, economic circumstances and patent laws. In this way, it seeks to explain the retardation of the introduction of cyaniding as a co…
The Ats-1 Communications Model
The ATS-1 satellite is used for social service audioconference networks in the Pacific Islands. Channel limitations restrict the communication efficiency of these networks, but not so badly as to drop them below accepted standards for telecommunication systems. Emulating the A TS-1 model over higher quality satellite and/or terrestrial links can bring great social benefit at considerable cost savings in comparison with standard common carrier ser…
The Advent of Strategic Management in Csiro
Australia's major government research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), has recently changed its style of management. This paper traces the development of CSIRO from an institutional research organization to a body taking responsibility for Australia's strategic civilian research, from an organizational perspective. The problems that this change might create in disturbing the organizational balance …
Coronary Intensive Care for Cardiac Infarction
Although technological change processes in agriculture and industry have been extensively studied, studies of technological change processes in the service sector are, to date, limited in number. In this paper, findings of a case study of the diffusion of coronary care facilities in the Australian hospital sector are presented and discussed. Comparisons are drawn with other studies of innovation and diffusion in both profit and not-for-profit set…
Recent Trends in Australian Government Policies for Technological Innovation
This paper examines the rhetoric underlying policies for technological innovation in Australia over the past five or six years. The analysis is based on two approaches to policies for technological innovation which compete in the political arena: non-interventionism and economic nationalism. These approaches are completely general and aim to outline the scope of the rhetoric surrounding policies for technological innovation. Major policy statemen…