Autor: Peder Inge Furseth

Richard Cuthbertson is Research Director and Senior Research Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of the Finland Distinguished Professor Programme at Aalto University. His research interests lie in the development of consumer societies, and their relationship to wider economic, social, and environmental issues, including the role of customer information, innovation and internationalisation in a digital world, where supply chain visibility, mass communication, and individual marketing reflect some of the challenges and opportunities of „big data” in an increasingly interconnected world of consumers, businesses, countries, and societies. Peder Inge Furseth is Associate Professor at Norwegian Business School BI, Norway, where he is on the faculty of the Department of Communication and Culture. He is also a regular visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He was the head of the research project „Value Driven Service Innovation”, of which this book is one of several publications. Stephen Ezell is Vice President of Global Innovation Policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington DC-based technology and economic policy non-profit foundation/think tank. He previously co-founded Peer Insight, an innovation research and consulting firm, where he led the Global Service Innovation Consortium, published multiple research papers on service innovation, and researched national serviceinnovation policies being implemented by governments worldwide.