Introduction

This short introduction outlines the central issues to be addressed in the book. These include the importance of innovation and social inclusion, as well as the urgent need to move beyond the fair distribution of innovative resources towards a focus on the social relations of knowledge generation and the production of novel goods and services. To ensure that innovation is an inclusive process capable of transforming human lives, I propose, from the outset, three principles of justice: equity, recognition and participation. These principles are founded upon public action and upon campaigning for the equalising of social relations in the innovation process. The introduction also explains and justifies the main structure of the book.