Innovation for Social Needs
Innovation for Social Needs
In this chapter we explore in more detail the kinds of already-existing types of innovation which fulfil the criteria of restraint, living gently, and paying serious attention to the ethics involved in collective circulation of seemingly beneficial innovation. We draw here upon examples from both over- and under-consuming nations, and from economies in crisis as well as those which presently appear to be more stable. We make the claim that innovation needs to be viewed more broadly than traditional, Schumpeterian definitions that have become obsolete due to their inability to embrace and acknowledge social relations, as well as social, environmental and ethical responsibility in the process of innovation.
Keywords: frugal innovation, public engagement, social and solidarity economy, social change, social innovation
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