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

Gilbert Giacomoni () and Jean-Claude Sardas ()
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Gilbert Giacomoni: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
Jean-Claude Sardas: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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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: Strategy; Naming; Knowledge; Equivalence; Innovation; Changes; Irreversibility; Collections; Design; Set Theory; Semantics; Asymmetry of exploration; Plausibility; Invariance; Identity; Discernibility; Relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Frantz Rowe; Dove T'eni. R&D strategy and operations - Innovation and IT in an International Context, Palgrave MacMillan, pp.97-141, 2014

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