Innovation Beyond Technology

Sébastien Lechevalier is an economist and a professor at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris), specialized in the Japanese economy and Asian capitalism. He is also an associate researcher at GREThA (Bordeaux University). He is the founder and president of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (FFJ). He has been a visiting professor at The University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Hitotsubashi University, Waseda University, and Doshisha University. He has published extensively on various dimensions of the Japanese economy in comparative perspective, including The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism (Routledge, 2014). His research also deals with the issue of innovation in academic institutions, at the corporate level, and from a public policy perspective. 

Preface.- 1. Innovation Beyond Technology – Introduction.- 2. Reimagining Innovation.- 3. 'Innovation’ as an adaptation of ‘Progress’: Revisiting the epistemological and historical contexts of these terms.- 4. The Light and Shadow of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- 5. How scientific breakthroughs and social innovations shape the evolution of the healthcare sector.- 6. From crisis to reformulation: innovation in the global drug industry and the alternative modernization of Indian Ayurveda.- 7. Consortium-Based Open Innovation: Exploring a Unique and Optimal Model for Regional Biotechnology Industry.- 8. Environment and social innovation: Why technology never was the solution.- 9. Post-Disaster Community Recovery and Community-based Collaborative Action Research – A Case of Process Evaluation Method for Community Life Improvement –.- 10. Lessons from Fukushima for Responsible Innovation: How to construct a new relationship between science and society?.- 11. Public participation in thesetting of research and innovation agenda: virtues and challenges from a philosophical perspective.- 12. Innovation for whom? City experiments and the redefinition of urban democracy.- 13. lmage of Jurisprudence Reconstructed to Enhance Innovation: Liability Allocation for Improved Predictability.- 14. Science as Care: Science and Innovation in Post-Growth Society.-