Beschreibung:
Economic development is rooted in disruption, not in equilibrium. And a powerful engine of economic development is innovation; but is this innovation always for the common good? The dark side of the extraordinary dynamism of innovation lies precisely in its destructive power. If simply left to market forces, it could lead to social chaos and great human suffering.
Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Innovation at the heart of the economyThe decisive competitive weaponThe collective entrepreneur: increased innovative powerRacing ahead and temporary monopoliesThe entrepreneurial chain and corporate culturePart 2: Innovation, fairness and the common goodWoe to the vanquished: creative destructionPrometheus or the ambiguity of economic and technical creativityPower over the future in an ethical and political vacuumPart 3: Responsible innovationThe entrepreneurial imperativeTurning creativity into progressA more societal focus of creative capacityEthics, politics and the technosciencesSocial innovations