Post Growth Innovation, livre ebook

• Provides a comprehensive exploration of innovation within post-growth perspectives, an often overlooked aspect in critical innovation debates;

• Presents a novel approach that connects traditional theories with emerging paradigms, highlighting the far-reaching consequences of technological progress;

• Challenges the dominance of economic growth as the primary organising principle shaping society, offering readers new insights into innovation's potential for shaping sustainable and equitable futures.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Post growth and degrowth scholars argue that we cannot reduce CO2 emissions fast enough to keep global warming below 2 degrees while continuing economic growth. We face a choice: either we innovate how to scale down production and consumption equitably, or we risk severe environmental and social consequences.

Yet the role of innovation remains largely unexplored within contemporary post growth debates. This book fills that gap, examining the narratives, processes, and practices needed to break free from the growth imperative.

It offers a bridge for understanding the far-reaching implications of technological and scientific advancements in a society that challenges economic growth as its central focus.

Introduction: What Do You Believe? A Miracle of Technology or Politics?

1. The Growth Delusion: How Innovation Fuels Our Path to Disaster

2. What’s Wrong With Innovation and Why It Matters for a Post Growth Society

3. Caring and Maintaining

4. Organizations and Institutions for Post Growth

5. The Infrastructural Conditions of Post Growth

6. What Does It Mean Today to Democratize Technology?

Coda: Why Did We Stop Making Experiments?