Toward Responsible Innovation:Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future

Xavier Pavie
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Xavier Pavie: ESSEC Business School, Singapore

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Abstract: For fifty years, innovations have taken on a new dimension: the Internet, DNA sequencing, genomic manipulations, advances in transhumanism, nanotechnologies ... and much more. These recent innovations are not without addressing new issues whose consequences are as important as irreversible. The innovator, of whom Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are emblematic contemporary figures, appears as a personality as brilliant as he is destructive, who aspires to change the world regardless of the violence that may ensue. With this then, emerges the need to establish responsible innovation, in which the innovator should be accountable for his actions and review his position as a hero. To establish this new ethic, philosophy is a necessary recourse, since it questions, among other things, the self-control of the Stoics, the prudence of Aristotle, respect of Kant, the will power of Nietzsche and the power of Foucault.

Keywords: Philosophy of Innovation; Responsible Innovation; Innovation Ethics; Sustainable Innovation; Innovator of the Future (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 O31 O35 O36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
ISBN: 9789811243226
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