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• Title:[Innovation, moteur de l'economie. English]
  Responsible innovation / Philippe de Woot.
  
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• Author/Creator:Woot, Philippe de, author.
  
• Published/Created:Sheffield : Greenleaf Publishing, [2016]
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HB615 .W66 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Entrepreneurship--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Creative ability in business--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Technological innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Social responsibility of business.
  
• Description:90 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:Economic development is rooted in rupture and not in equilibrium. Innovation acts as a powerful engine of economic development. This book asks if it is 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 might cause social havoc and great human suffering. To face the challenges of our time, we must create the proper climate and culture to develop strong entrepreneurial drive. But, more than ever, we must give this entrepreneurial drive its ethical and societal dimensions. Responsible innovation means a more voluntary orientation towards the great problems of the 21st century: depletion of the planet's resources, rising inequalities, new scientific development potentially threatening freedom, democracy and human integrity. We need to transform our increasing creativity into real progress for mankind. In this respect, the rapid development of social innovations opens new ways and practices. De Woot challenges conventional ways of thinking. The book has the power to shift accepted norms in the ways of doing business.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781783534432 pbk.
  1783534435 bk.
  9781783535217 hbk.
  1783535210 hbk.
  9781783534418 ePub ebook
  9781783534395 PDF ebook
  
• Contents:1. Innovation at the heart of the economy
  The decisive competitive weapon
  The collective entrepreneur: increased innovative power
  Racing ahead and temporary monopolies
  The entrepreneurial chain and corporate culture
  2. Innovation, fairness and the common good
  Woe to the vanquished: creative destruction
  Prometheus or the ambiguity of economic and technical creativity
  Power over the future in an ethical and political vacuum
  3. Responsible innovation
  The entrepreneurial imperative
  Turning creativity into progress
  A more societal focus of creative capacity
  Ethics, politics and the techno-sciences.