“…Each of these economic systems supports and uses different forms of older people's capital» [1]. The SE must renew itself -as does society as a whole with regard to aging [9] -to open up to total innovation and radical intergeneration oriented concepts such as the economy of the contribution [26,27], the re-embedding of economy and work [28,29], integrative objects [30], creative economy and creative industries advocated by the United Nations [31], etc. The SE should more and more provide mind-stretching analyses and initiatives.…”