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John Morelli

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---Call for Papers--- Sustainability & Innovation---ICICI 2012---

-----22 & 23 November 2012---Friedrichshafen, Germany------

The favored road to sustainability in all its discourses is innovation. The vast majority of decision makers in politics and business adhere to the belief that by introducing novelty – new product development, technological breakthroughs, new institutional instruments, and also new social arrangements of how to consume or how to organize for a more sustainable democracy – the problem of non-sustainability of current circumstances can be solved.

However, every increase in efficiency by the introduction of novelty induces a rebound effect - Jevons' paradox. The direct rebound increases demand for the novel good, while the indirect rebound is stemmingfrom increased possibility in alternative consumption. Both effects directly lead to economic growth and largely destroy ecological gains through innovation. The triangle of innovation, sustainability and growth is paradoxical and its dissolution poses what Heinz von Foerster called an "undecidable question."

After dealing with social and technological aspects of innovation in the past years, the 2012 International Conference on Innovation Concepts and Indicators – 20 years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro – focusses precisely on this undecidable question.

Attached you find the Call for Papers.

Deadline for submitting abstracts and workshop proposal of up to 500 words: 15 April 2012

More information: www.innocon.wordpress.com

On behalf of the organizing committee

André Reichel

Zeppelin Universität