Participation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book. Both are issues of organization and not of ethics, or the enforcement of other forms of obligations on individual actors. The need is for a democratization of innovation that can make innovation open to broad participation.

Combines experience driven innovation, broad participation and development oriented public-private co-operation to analyse how to create socially responsible innovation

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