Innovation and development in search of a political theory of justice

Παπαϊωάννου, Θεόδωρος

doi:10.1504/ijtg.2014.064741

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“…Science, technology and innovation can play crucial roles in improving the lives of poor people, making them better-off compared to their previous situation (Arocena and Sutz 2012;Juma et al 2001;UNDP 2001). However, as has been argued elsewhere (Papaioannou 2013), even if we assumed that the assets of GIJI could promote inclusiveness of people and places in science, technology and innovation, they would face serious problems, such as the lack of political support from powerful industrialized countries, conflict of material interests and power relations in the global structure (Callinicos 2002;Rosenberg 1994). …”

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“…As has been pointed out elsewhere (Papaioannou 2013), Sen is more interested in just development than just innovation. This is because specific types of innovation constitute means of development and not ends in themselves.…”

Section: Sen and Capabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…As has been argued elsewhere (Papaioannou 2013) although Hollis and Pogge's institutional proposal for a HIF has been designed to promote inclusive innovation and proactive or creative equality (Arocena and Sutz 2003), it fails to do so in a number of respects. First, a HIF is based on the profit incentives argument that suggests innovation-generated inequality can be justified so long as it improves the lives of the worse-off.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For them, positive rights of distributive justice can be legally enforced by international law (Papaioannou 2013). Non-Rawlsian cosmopolitans such as Buchanan, Cole, and Keohane (2011) propose to promote inclusive innovation and Innovation and Developmentdevelopment through a Global Institute for Justice in Innovation (GIJI).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a series of papers (Papaioannou 2011(Papaioannou , 2013, I have defined such a framework as public action and campaigning for satisfying basic human needs in an equitable and participatory way. According to Reader (2006, 337) The "basic needs approach" (henceforth BNA) is an approach to social justice that gives priority to meeting people's basic needs -to ensuring that there are sufficient, appropriately distributed basic needs (BN) goods and services to sustain all human lives at minimally decent level.…”

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How inclusive can innovation and development be in the twenty-first century?

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2014

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Innovation is crucial for development. Addressing twenty-first century developmental challenges requires innovative processes and products, which help in reducing and/or eliminating the gap between rich and poor in the society. Such innovations can meet basic needs of low-and middle-income groups in developing countries, providing them with capabilities to function. The aim of this paper is to answer the question of how inclusive (of people and places) innovation and development can be in the twenty-first century. The paper therefore reviews new models of innovation for development, including 'frugal' and 'grassroots' or 'below the radar' innovation models. The argument put forward is that their inclusiveness depends not only on their diffusion to the poor but also on their generation according to principles of participation and equity derived from contemporary theories of global justice. These are conditions with direct impact on meeting the poor's basic needs and increasing their capabilities to function.

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Toward a Political Theory of Social Innovation: Collective Intelligence and Co-Creation of Social Goods

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This paper proposes a political theory of social innovation. The paper begins by introducing and reviewing recent claims made for the ways in which social innovation can co-create public goods and services by utilizing forms of collection intelligence (CI) and CI Internet-based platforms. The paper provides a discussion and classification of the literature on collective intelligence before investigation the question of new forms and ways of delivering public goods and services through forms of co-creation and co-production.

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Science, Technology and Innovation as Social Goods for Development: Rethinking Research Capacity Building from Sen’s Capabilities Approach

Mormina

2018

Sci Eng Ethics

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Science and technology are key to economic and social development, yet the capacity for scientific innovation remains globally unequally distributed. Although a priority for development cooperation, building or developing research capacity is often reduced in practice to promoting knowledge transfers, for example through North-South partnerships. Research capacity building/development tends to focus on developing scientists' technical competencies through training, without parallel investments to develop and sustain the socioeconomic and political structures that facilitate knowledge creation. This, the paper argues, significantly contributes to the scientific divide between developed and developing countries more than any skills shortage. Using Charles Taylor's concept of irreducibly social goods, the paper extends Sen's Capabilities Approach beyond its traditional focus on individual entitlements to present a view of scientific knowledge as a social good and the capability to produce it as a social capability. Expanding this capability requires going beyond current fragmented approaches to research capacity building to holistically strengthen the different social, political and economic structures that make up a nation's innovation system. This has implications for the interpretation of human rights instruments beyond their current focus on access to knowledge and for focusing science policy and global research partnerships to design approaches to capacity building/development beyond individual training/skills building.

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Innovation and development in search of a political theory of justice

Cited by 13 publications

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How inclusive can innovation and development be in the twenty-first century?

How inclusive can innovation and development be in the twenty-first century?

Toward a Political Theory of Social Innovation: Collective Intelligence and Co-Creation of Social Goods

Science, Technology and Innovation as Social Goods for Development: Rethinking Research Capacity Building from Sen’s Capabilities Approach

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