Is Innovation the Premise of Social Progress?

Mihaela Mihai ()

Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, 2017, vol. XVII, issue 2, 105-110

Abstract: Improving the quality of life involves a complex and multidimensional effort, and previous efforts to measure progress simply did not create a sufficiently nuanced picture of what a healthy society looks like. Social progress is the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, to establish the areas that enable citizens and communities to improve, respectively to support the quality of their lives and to create the necessary conditions for all individuals to reaches the full potential. At the same time, progress can be considered dependent on the ability to innovate and the ability to adopt innovation. Thus, after analyzing and comparing the data for the Global Social Innovation Index and the Global Innovation Index, we are looking to answer the question which gives the title of these papers: Is innovation the premise of social progress?.

Keywords: Global Innovation Index; Social Progress Index; Economic progress; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F6 O1 O35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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