It has almost become a research premise, as opposed to a research question, that cities are
the font of economic innovation. This review explores the connection between innovation …

Growing movements to urban places, increasing unemployment, decreasing buying power,
rising real estate cost and demanding consumers for convenience and price are creating …

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on service across socioeconomic
sectors coupled with transformational developments in information and communication …

Abstract Writing in Small Business Economics Scott Shane argues that policy-makers should
stop subsidising start-ups and instead focus on supporting the small subset of new …

This special issue acknowledges important innovations in the world of service and within
this domain we are particularly interested in exploring the rise and influence of web-based …

The services sector has grown over the last 50 years to dominate economic activity in most
advanced industrial economies, yet scientific understanding of modern services is …

Purpose From the background of the dramatic increase of urban tourism, framed by the
concept of overtourism, the purpose of this paper is to analyze and discuss current dynamic …

The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on
urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical …

Computer scientists work with formal models of algorithms and computation, and someday
service scientists may work with formal models of service systems. The four examples here …

Since the 1980s there has been extraordinary growth and visibility of design throughout
most of the world. This is connected to fundamental developments in capitalism. This period …