This policy redefines the role of technology in economic development by shifting away from innovation models that prioritise productivity expansion, intellectual property rents, and growth-dependent commercialisation. Instead, it advances mission-oriented innovation focused on sufficiency, equity, and ecological sustainability. Key measures include publicly led R&D programmes directed toward social and environmental missions; open licensing and knowledge-commons models to prevent monopoly control; and public or cooperative infrastructures for essential digital services.
Implementation requires reforming industrial and science policies to reward low-resource, socially useful technologies; revising IP regimes to expand collective access; and coordinating South–South technological cooperation to build sovereignty rather than dependency.
The policy goal is to ensure that innovation contributes to wellbeing, resilience, and reduced inequality, rather than driving consumption, extraction, or market concentration.
This policy is desirable because it positions technology as a public good and counterbalances the extractive, growth-oriented innovation paradigms currently dominating global markets.
