Innovation, but what for?

With the publication in March 2023 of his book L'Innovation, mais pour quoi faire? (Innovation, but what for?), Franck Aggeri reminds us of the foundations of what he calls a culture of innovation, but also reveals the hidden face, the perverse effects and the doxa of innovation. In the era of the Anthropocene, we can no longer continue to innovate as we have been so far. So how can we innovate differently? Franck Aggeri proposes and discusses two approaches. The first is to change the criteria used to assess innovation and to agree on new legal definitions of responsibility in order to commit innovators and those who govern them to the long-term consequences of their projects. The second issue is that of low-impact innovation: the fight against obsolescence, social innovation, development of uses, repair, circularity, frugal use of resources, etc.