Toward Responsible Innovation

The following sections are included:

• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction

The following sections are included:

• Why Do We Innovate?
  • To innovate is to change
  • Everything is innovation
• Innovating, Inventing, Discovering
  • Innovating is not the same as inventing
  • Discovering is not the same as innovating
• The Breeding Ground of Innovation
  • Politics and innovation, innovation policies
• The Ways of Innovation
  • The different types of innovation
  • Degrees of innovation
  • The innovation process
• Understanding and Accepting Innovation

Innovation is a proposal made by an individual which is so completely necessary to this person that it becomes absolute. Eschewing criticism, innovation is seldom if ever analysed in terms of its potential harmful impact. From the moment an innovation is proposed, it is held up as a positive symbol, and its consequences, no matter how significant, ultimately gain acceptance over time. There was unanimous outrage when the founder of Facebook declared that the social norm on data protection needed to evolve, i.e. that personal data, hitherto reserved exclusively for the private sphere, could be used by commercial organisations, in this case, his own. Over and above the importance of being able to market data in order to generate profit, what is at stake is much more complex. To seek to change a social norm is to set yourself up as herald of an evolution, claiming this to be necessary for society as a whole, regardless of the consequences. To put it another way, the innovator sees only their creation, but not its inherent destructive consequences even if they are actually aware of these. There is no innovation without disobedience.

The following sections are included:

• How Far Should We Take Innovation?
• The Case of Transhumanism
  • The emergence of transhumanism
  • Understanding transhumanism and post-humanism
  • The Innovator and transhumanism
• The Emergence of Responsible Innovation
  • Being accountable for one’s actions
  • Principle of responsibility – Principle of responsible innovation
  • Responsible innovation and social innovation
• Reducing the Uncertainty of Innovation
  • The thrusts of responsible innovation
    • Questioning the answers to be given to the needs of individuals
    • Measuring the direct consequences of innovations
    • Considering the indirect impacts of innovations
  • The process of responsible innovation
    • Step 1: Complying with the law
    • Step 2: Anticipating future legal constraints
    • Step 3: Thinking of the value chain as an ecosystem
    • Step 4: Developing responsible products and services
    • Step 5: Drive change
  • The limits of responsible innovation
• The Path to Innovation-Care
  • Critique of responsibility
  • What is care?
  • Characterising innovation-care
  • Modes of expression of care
  • Spheres of the individual
  • Competitiveness, interdependence and short-term vision
    • Exogenous conditions
    • Endogenous conditions
  • Understanding interdependence as a means of balancing exogenous and endogenous conditions
  • Innovation-care and self-control
  • From innovator to innovator-carer?
  • Stigmatisation and self-control
  • Care and performance

The following sections are included:

• The Qualities of the Innovator
• Innovators and Philosophers: Mode of Being and Similarities
  • The act of questioning
  • The quest for progress
  • Creativity
  • Commitment
  • Solitude
  • Ego
  • Irrepressible creativity
  • Philosopher and Innovator: One lifestyle
• The Philosophical Choice of a Humanely Sustainable Future
• Understanding Philosophy
  • The Greek origin of philosophy
  • The practice of philosophy: Articulating theōria and praxis
• The Challenge of Spiritual Exercises
  • Spiritual exercises: The essence of philosophy
  • Elevating one’s existence
  • The need to take care of self
  • Caring for others
  • The need to ready oneself
• Converting Oneself
  • The conversion of the Innovator
  • The burning relevance of spiritual exercises
  • The choice to innovate
  • Teaching spiritual exercise to Innovators?
  • The question of the Master
• Deconstructing the Way We Teach Innovation
  • The traditional innovation process
  • The innovator I want to be
  • Relearning how to dialogue
  • Learning to meditate: A phenomenology of innovation
  • What depends on the self
• Transdisciplinarity for Understanding the World
  • Ode to transdisciplinarity
  • Our everyday life is an ecosystem of transdisciplinarity
• The Innovator of the 21st Century

The following sections are included:

• Bibliography
• Index Nominum
• Index