Responsibility and Visioneering—Opening Pandora’s Box

Abstract

In the previous chapter, the concept of innovation was introduced and critically discussed. It was argued that innovations are ambivalent and that in order to plan and shape innovation processes normative questions about the value of concrete novelties have to be answered and their realization has to be assigned to agents. Such activities presuppose the existence of agents who can form intentions through deliberations and shape emerging technologies that are embedded in complex socio-technical systems.