Why Innovative Design Requires New Scientific Foundations for Manageable Identities of Systems

Gilbert Giacomoni and Jean-Claude Sardas

Chapter 4 in Innovation and IT in an International Context, 2014, pp 86-115 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When can we state that things are identical or different? This is a key issue in structuring humans’ representations and making plausible predictions with potentially major implications, as demonstrated in high-tech industries such as those studied here. The identity of things is not a natural and absolute relationship just waiting to be stated once and for all. Rather, it is an artificial and short-lived one, relative to available knowledge or experience, and should be memorized as such using well-suited semantics. Standard rationality enables designers to manage consistent identities according to a fixed state of understanding only. If that state is updated to reflect current changes of things or environments coupled with innovation, they must adopt a relevant non-standard rationality based on new scientific foundations.

Keywords: Universal Property; Innovative Design; Volume Weight; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Axiomatic Design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137336132_5

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