what are the innovation for sustainable development -digital and technology society
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Architectural innovations are rare. The success rate of attempts to innovate in an architectural way is often very low. Cell phones are one of the few successful architectural innovations that happened rather recently. Architectural innovations have great impact. They do not merely optimize an existing function, but the technology creates completely new options for behavior. As this has occurred, there are many options for improvement: incremental innovation can rapidly cut the costs and/or increase the performance of the technology. This creates a rapid growth in the industry as it facilitates further market penetration. As incremental innovation gradually meets limits, growth can be sustained by other options: market niches create a possibility to create extra demand and premium prices
Niche innovations might further improve the environmental performance of technologies (as the match between technology and demand can be improved) but might also involve new features and additional consumption. Their effect is limited.
Architectural innovations greatly affect the existing technological capabilities of firms, but also their existing market relations. Taken even wider, Rotmans introduced the concept of transition, which also involves a whole range of changes in institutions and societal infrastructure (Rotmans et al. 2001). The impact of transitions in terms of sustainability is probably larger than any of the previous technological changes. One might assume that it is especially this type of innovation that could meet resistance from the social structure, culture, and interests related to the current technology.Technological innovation as a concept is not unproblematic by itself: it might refer to the knowledge of such different entities as large systems, such as the railroad system, or as small as the molecular structure of the surface of the thread of a light bulb. It might also refer to knowledge of activities as different as welding, designing, planning, drawing, leaching, etc. Hence, technology refers to knowledge of different levels of integration of objects in order to perform useful functions for humankind. Technology refers to three realms:Innovation for sustainable developmentNot all technological systems renewal, architectural innovations, or transitions necessarily will lead to sustainable development. To begin with, a sustainable technology means more than merely producing goods without pollution or ecological destruction. Sustainable technology means fulfilling people’s needs in such a way that the recovery capacity of the planet as well as the recovery capacity of local ecosystems are not exceeded. The aim is to bring the worlds’ use of natural resources within the boundaries that are set by the earth’s recovery capacity. What are the preconditions that the need for sustainable development sets for these innovations.
Architectural innovations are rare. The success rate of attempts to innovate in an architectural way is often very low. Cell phones are one of the few successful architectural innovations that happened rather recently. Architectural innovations have great impact. They do not merely optimize an existing function, but the technology creates completely new options for behavior. As this has occurred, there are many options for improvement: incremental innovation can rapidly cut the costs and/or increase the performance of the technology. This creates a rapid growth in the industry as it facilitates further market penetration. As incremental innovation gradually meets limits, growth can be sustained by other options: market niches create a possibility to create extra demand and premium prices
Niche innovations might further improve the environmental performance of technologies (as the match between technology and demand can be improved) but might also involve new features and additional consumption. Their effect is limited.
Architectural innovations greatly affect the existing technological capabilities of firms, but also their existing market relations. Taken even wider, Rotmans introduced the concept of transition, which also involves a whole range of changes in institutions and societal infrastructure (Rotmans et al. 2001). The impact of transitions in terms of sustainability is probably larger than any of the previous technological changes. One might assume that it is especially this type of innovation that could meet resistance from the social structure, culture, and interests related to the current technology.Technological innovation as a concept is not unproblematic by itself: it might refer to the knowledge of such different entities as large systems, such as the railroad system, or as small as the molecular structure of the surface of the thread of a light bulb. It might also refer to knowledge of activities as different as welding, designing, planning, drawing, leaching, etc. Hence, technology refers to knowledge of different levels of integration of objects in order to perform useful functions for humankind. Technology refers to three realms:Innovation for sustainable developmentNot all technological systems renewal, architectural innovations, or transitions necessarily will lead to sustainable development. To begin with, a sustainable technology means more than merely producing goods without pollution or ecological destruction. Sustainable technology means fulfilling people’s needs in such a way that the recovery capacity of the planet as well as the recovery capacity of local ecosystems are not exceeded. The aim is to bring the worlds’ use of natural resources within the boundaries that are set by the earth’s recovery capacity. What are the preconditions that the need for sustainable development sets for these innovations.
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