Innovation Pathways Towards Creating Integrated Value

Paper Series, No 2.

Dr. Prof. Wayne Visser proposes Integrated Value as a conceptual and practical framework for business to respond credibly and effectively as a force for innovation and solutions.

In the context of a plethora of worsening social, environmental and ethical negative conditions often associated with economic growth and industrial activity, I am proposing Integrated Value as a conceptual and practical framework for business to respond credibly and effectively as a force for innovation and solutions. In order to do so, I begin by asking: how is value to society currently being destroyed by economic activities? Taking a systems science perspective, the answer is: whenever it causes fragmentation, or disintegration.

I then ask: how might this value destruction in society be countered or reversed? And I find clues in innovations that are occurring in five emerging economic spheres: the resilience, Exponential, access, circular and wellbeing economies.

Author: Dr. Prof. Wayne Visser