Abstract
Chapter III, Scientific progress: innovation and techno-scientific research from Evandro Agazzi and contemporary epistemology, structured by Robert Fernando Bolaños Vivas, explains that the notion of scientific progress, so much debated in the 20th century, is 'innovation'. The author argues that there can be no authentic scientific progress that does not involve innovative elements, both at the level of technical processes and in the consequences of applications. The chapter attempts to answer questions such as: what to innovate, how to innovate, what to innovate for, and why to innovate, considering that every innovative process involves problematic aspects of human complexity. The author proposes to explain the fact that for true innovative progress to take place, it is essential to clarify the existing relationships between science, technology, academia, business, research, cooperation and innovation, and how these complex interrelationships must not neglect the configuration of innovative and integral progress for human beings.
| Translated title of the contribution | Scientific Progress: Techno-scientific Innovation and Research from Evandro Agazzi and Contemporary Epistemology |
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| Original language | Spanish (Ecuador) |
| Title of host publication | Filosofía de la innovación y de la tecnología educativa: Tomo I Filosofía de la innovación |
| Publisher | Editorial Universitaria Abya-Yala |
| Pages | 91-124 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-9978-10-420-0 |
| State | Published - 4 Jul 2020 |
Keywords
- Epistemology
- Innovation
- Research
- Scientific progress
CACES Knowledge Areas
- 322A Philosophy