Framework

Innovation is one of the most important and simultaneously on of the most ambiguous concepts of our times, one of the most difficult to define and to measure. People always say they are in favour of innovation: the notion has a clear positive connotation, being able to convey something modern, fascinating, surprising, that marks a discontinuity with the past. The rhetoric that accompanies innovation has turned it into a kind of mantra, a religion, in which we must place our trust in the hope of a better future. In literature, the great majority of authors who, from different interpretive perspectives, dealt with innovation, almost always did not take into account the analysis of their possible negative and dysfunctional effects. This seminar aims to be a meeting point to initiate a critical and interdisciplinary debate on the multiple legal, economic and social aspects related to innovation in both the public and private sectors. The event aims to initiate a reflection on several possible perverse and paradoxical effects of innovation, in their different forms and modes of expression.

Activity within the research projects "O paradoxo da inovação judicial nos países da Europa do sul", financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (IF/00938/2014/CP1262/CT0001) and "QUALIS | Qualidade da Justiça em Portugal! Impacto das condições de trabalho no desempenho profissional de juízes e magistrados do Ministério Público", financed by FEDER - Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional through COMPETE 2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI) and other portuguese funds
through the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029039