Critiquing the Direction for Innovation – The role of justice and exnovation
Workshop organisers: Rafael Ziegler (HEC Montreal) and Lukas Fuchs (TU Eindhoven)
The Centre de recherche en éthique (CRE) in Montreal, Canada, is hosting an online workshop on 13th and 14th April 2023 on “Critiquing the Direction for Innovation — The role of justice and exnovation”. Following a call for papers, we are proud to announce the schedule and speakers for this workshop. If you are interested in joining the workshop as a non-presenting participant, please email L.fuchs@tue.nl.
The indicated time is for Montreal. The workshop starts at 8am (Montreal), 12 noon (London), 1pm (Berlin) on both days.
Day 1: Thursday, 13th April 2023
| 8.00 – 8.30 | Welcome + Introductions |
| Keynote | |
| 8.30 – 9.50 | Andrew Stirling (Sussex) The Persistently Hidden Politics of Directionality in Innovation Governance: Opening up space for democratic struggle towards progressive transformations |
| 9.50 – 10.10 | Break |
| Panel I: Innovation, Exnovation & Justice | |
| 10.10 – 11.00 | Theo Papaioannou (Open University) Directing Innovation Towards Just Outcomes |
| 11.00 – 11.50 | Alejandra Boni and Diana Velasco (UPV Valencia) Is the direction of the transformative innovation policy ethical enough? A capabilitarian analysis of the transformative outcomes. |
| 11.50 – 12.00 | Break |
| 12.00 – 12.50 | Lukas Fuchs (TU Eindhoven) and Rafael Ziegler (HEC Montreal) What are the relations between innovation and exnovation for changing societal directions? |
Day 2: Friday, 14th April 2023 | |
| 8.00 – 8.10 | Welcome |
| Panel II: Contested Directionalities: Platforms, Competition & the Climate | |
| 8.10 – 9.00 | Alejandro Fortuny Sicart and Mario Pansera (Vigo) Giving digital delivery platforms a different direction: Coopcycle as a case study that integrates democratic and eco-social values into organisational design and technology |
| 9.00 – 9.50 | Juliane Mendelsohn (TU Ilmenau) Critiquing the Direction of Innovation for More Sustainable Competition Policy |
| 9.50 – 10.10 | Break |
| 10.10 – 11.00 | Kian Mintz-Woo (UC Cork) A Directional Dilemma in Climate Innovation |
| Panel III: Directionality as Societal Discourse | |
| 11.00 – 11.50 | Bonno Pel (ULB Brussels) Making Practical Sense of Directionality: Purposive and Emergent Transition in ‘la transition numérique’ (Belgium) |
| 11.50 – 12.00 | Break |
| 12.00 – 12.50 | Karina Maldonado-Mariscal and Rick Hölsgens (TU Dortmund) Reimagining Innovation Pathways: Exnovation and Buen Vivir as Global North-South Dialogues |
| 12.50 – 13.00 | Review and outlook (to be extended depending on participants’ energy level) |
Dr. Lukas Fuchs 