Original Product Toward Responsible Innovation

For fifty years, innovations have taken on a new dimension: the Internet, DNA sequencing, genomic manipulations, advances in transhumanism, nanotechnologies ... and much more. These recent innovations are not without addressing new issues whose consequences are as important as irreversible. The innovator, of whom Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are emblematic contemporary figures, appears as a personality as brilliant as he is destructive, who aspires to change the world regardless of the violence that may ensue. With this then, emerges the need to establish responsible innovation, in which the innovator should be accountable for his actions and review his position as a hero. To establish this new ethic, philosophy is a necessary recourse, since it questions, among other things, the self-control of the Stoics, the prudence of Aristotle, respect of Kant, the will power of Nietzsche and the power of Foucault.

Contents:

What Is Innovation :

- Why Do We Innovate

- Innovating, Inventing, Discovering

- The Breeding Ground of Innovation

- The Ways of Innovation

- Understanding and Accepting Innovation

Creative Destruction and The Innovator, The Hero and Their Myth:

- Creation and Destruction, Mythological Roots

- The Origin of Creative Destruction

- Hydrogen Bonds in Proteins

- Innovation, Political Revolution and Power

The Need for Responsible Innovation:

- How Far Should We Take Innovation

- The Case of Transhumanism

- The Emergence of Responsible Innovation

- Reducing the Uncertainty of Innovation

- The Path to Innovation-Care

The Innovative Individual at the Heart of Our Questioning:

- The Qualities of the Innovator

- Innovators and Philosophers: Mode of Being and Similarities

- The Philosophical Choice of a Humanely Sustainable Future

- Understanding Philosophy

- The Challenge of Spiritual Exercises

- Converting Oneself

- Deconstructing the Way We Teach Innovation

- Transdisciplinarity for Understanding the World

- The Innovator of the 21st Century

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