If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction

While innovation and market creation have long received attention for changing the direction of socio-economic development, exnovation and market destruction have received such attention only recently. Rather than assuming innovation and exnovation to be simply two sides of creative destruction proc...

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Main Authors: Lukas Fuchs, Rafael Ziegler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
Series:Journal of Responsible Innovation
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2392305
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description While innovation and market creation have long received attention for changing the direction of socio-economic development, exnovation and market destruction have received such attention only recently. Rather than assuming innovation and exnovation to be simply two sides of creative destruction processes, we aim to balance the discussion by exploring normative arguments in relation to both innovation and exnovation. We show how instrumental and enabling arguments for changing direction also apply to exnovation. By distinguishing three scenarios – complementation, reversion and reduction – we show that these arguments support genuine creative destruction in the case of a complementary innovation-exnovation relation. In addition, we show that they support an independent focus on exnovation, where the latter relies on reversion to old technologies or on overall reduction of economic activity. We discuss the role of freedom across exnovation processes, and the implication of our analysis for directing societal change without reducing democratic possibilities.
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spelling doaj-art-44caa5512aaa44a489d229b0e37a75f02025-01-07T13:48:20ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Responsible Innovation2329-94602329-90372024-12-0111110.1080/23299460.2024.2392305If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing directionLukas Fuchs0Rafael Ziegler1Philosophy & Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, the NetherlandsDepartment of Management, HEC Montreal, Montreal, CanadaWhile innovation and market creation have long received attention for changing the direction of socio-economic development, exnovation and market destruction have received such attention only recently. Rather than assuming innovation and exnovation to be simply two sides of creative destruction processes, we aim to balance the discussion by exploring normative arguments in relation to both innovation and exnovation. We show how instrumental and enabling arguments for changing direction also apply to exnovation. By distinguishing three scenarios – complementation, reversion and reduction – we show that these arguments support genuine creative destruction in the case of a complementary innovation-exnovation relation. In addition, we show that they support an independent focus on exnovation, where the latter relies on reversion to old technologies or on overall reduction of economic activity. We discuss the role of freedom across exnovation processes, and the implication of our analysis for directing societal change without reducing democratic possibilities.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2392305Exnovationinnovationdirectionalitysustainability policyethicsresponsible innovation
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If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction
Journal of Responsible Innovation
Exnovation
innovation
directionality
sustainability policy
ethics
responsible innovation
title If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction
title_full If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction
title_fullStr If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction
title_full_unstemmed If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction
title_short If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction
title_sort if you are for market creation you should be for market destruction ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction
topic Exnovation
innovation
directionality
sustainability policy
ethics
responsible innovation
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2392305
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