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LechW.Zacher
InnovationsforSociallyCreatingaSustainableFuture
(conditions,necessarytransformations,probableresults)
1lIntroduction
“Fromtoday’scriticalperspectives,however,andfromthelongview
encompassedinthisstudy,itseemsclearthatprogressisneitherinev-
itablenornecessarilysustainable.”
J.E.McClellanIII,H.Dorn(2006)ScienceandTechnology
inWorldHistory,2nded.,Baltimore,MD,TheJohnsHop-
kinsUniv.Press
Ourthinkingondevelopmentandthefutureneedsre-invention.Pastexperiencesandtradi-
tionalconceptsandtheoriescannotexplainanewsocio-economicandenvironmentalreal-
ity.Theworldisonthemove,transformationsareongoing,andchangeisamainfeature
nowadays.Aninterpretationofthisnewchangingrealityrequiresnewapproaches,new
cognitivemethods,andanewlanguageaswell.Soinnovationsofvarioustypearebadly
neededifwewanttounderstandtheongoingcivilizationaltransformationsworldwideand
tobuildcapacitiestotheirrationalandadvantageousco-shaping.
2lChangingintellectualmindsetsandWeltanschauung
Thesocio-economicdevelopmentalnarrativeanditsparticipantsarenotimmunetomag-
icalthinking,popularmisconceptions,ideologicalassumptions,politics,interest-driven
convictions,orevenstupidity,nottomentionerrorsandignorance.Somessagessent
todecision-makersoftenhappentobeconfusing,ambiguous,andlessthanvaluablefor
practice.Thus,itisimportanttocheckourmindsetsespeciallyinaneraofgreattransfor-
mations(torecallPolanyi’sterm).
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