Responsibility Beyond Growth: A Case for Responsible Stagnation

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This is an important scholarly debate on the ways of reconceptualising 'responsibility' in the face of disruptive innovations framed as necessary for creating economic growth, addressing urgent global challenges. Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this enlightening study sparks new debate on the role and nature of responsible innovation. Drawing on insights from economics, politics and science and technology studies, it proposes the concept of 'responsible stagnation' as an expansion of present discussions about growth, degrowth, responsibility and innovation within planetary limitations.This important scholarly intervention explores real-world relationships between the political economy, innovation policy and concepts of responsibility and will be an invaluable resource for readers, scholars and civil society organisations who seek to promote responsible innovation.

Stevienna de Saille is a science and technology studies research fellow in the Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman) at the University of Sheffield. Fabien Medvecky is Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the University of Otago. Michiel van Oudheusden is a social scientist at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Kevin Albertson is Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University. Effie Amanatidou is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Timothy Birabi has a PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow and is presently a corporate strategy consultant in London. Mario Pansera is Assistant Professor in Innovation Management at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain.

Easy to read and understand, jargon-free and above all clear and thought-provoking. The Bassetti Foundation This book is an invaluable contribution to current discussions on economics, innovation, growth and responsibility. Anna Henkel, University of Passau "Responsibility Beyond Growth is refreshing as it is very easy to read, has a great feel and is tight. It is aimed at a broad audience base, is not overladen with references or jargon and doesn't require specialized knowledge to follow." Journal of Responsible Innovation