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Why Innovative Design Requires New Scientific Foundations for Manageable Identities of Systems

In: Innovation and IT in an International Context

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  • Gilbert Giacomoni
  • Jean-Claude Sardas

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When can we state that things are identical or different? This is a key issue in structuring humans’ representations and making plausible predictions with potentially major implications, as demonstrated in high-tech industries such as those studied here. The identity of things is not a natural and absolute relationship just waiting to be stated once and for all. Rather, it is an artificial and short-lived one, relative to available knowledge or experience, and should be memorized as such using well-suited semantics. Standard rationality enables designers to manage consistent identities according to a fixed state of understanding only. If that state is updated to reflect current changes of things or environments coupled with innovation, they must adopt a relevant non-standard rationality based on new scientific foundations.

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  • Gilbert Giacomoni & Jean-Claude Sardas, 2014. "Why Innovative Design Requires New Scientific Foundations for Manageable Identities of Systems," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frantz Rowe & Dov Te’eni (ed.), Innovation and IT in an International Context, chapter 4, pages 86-115, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33613-2_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137336132_5
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