Business, Innovation And Responsibility
by Sophie Pella /
2017 / English / PDF
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Responsible Innovation. For some, this expression is only
an oxymoron or, worse, a means of masking with a sheet of virtue
economic practices that would otherwise appear selfish and
self-interested. For others, theorists and actors of innovation,
this expression represents a formidable lever of action and a
rich conceptual source from which to draw new ways of innovating.
Responsible Innovation. For some, this expression is only
an oxymoron or, worse, a means of masking with a sheet of virtue
economic practices that would otherwise appear selfish and
self-interested. For others, theorists and actors of innovation,
this expression represents a formidable lever of action and a
rich conceptual source from which to draw new ways of innovating.
The articulation between different levels of norms – economic and
ethical, to which we can add the legal dimension – is not new,
and is the subject of an in-depth reflection, decades old, around
the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). By taking up
some debates on CSR, most of which are foreign to the current
authors of responsible innovation, this book examines the various
justifications that CSR brings in order to convince economic
players, subject to powerful market forces, of their responsible
commitment. But these are not enough. The book also explores the
specific contribution of the concept of responsible innovation to
coping with the technological, social and political breakthroughs
generated by innovation, and is based on philosophical resources
such as the ethics of virtue and the ethics of “care”.
The articulation between different levels of norms – economic and
ethical, to which we can add the legal dimension – is not new,
and is the subject of an in-depth reflection, decades old, around
the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). By taking up
some debates on CSR, most of which are foreign to the current
authors of responsible innovation, this book examines the various
justifications that CSR brings in order to convince economic
players, subject to powerful market forces, of their responsible
commitment. But these are not enough. The book also explores the
specific contribution of the concept of responsible innovation to
coping with the technological, social and political breakthroughs
generated by innovation, and is based on philosophical resources
such as the ethics of virtue and the ethics of “care”.