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GETTING TO THE ECO-WELFARE STATE:
ONE TRANSFORMATION –
OR MANY?
Peter Biegelbauer

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Digitisation
Globalisation
phenomena
Individualisation
Neoliberalism
Climate
Change
Freedom
Equality Solidarity
THE BASIS: A CHALLENGED WELFARE STATE

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LOOKING AROUND: FREEDOM IN THE WORLD 2019

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BASIS OF THE WELFARE STATE UNDER PRESSURE

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• Populism as challenge, indicator and chance
• Populism is the fever thermometer of democracy
→ Rethink our ways of policy-making
→ Redefine democratic politics
→ Create new instruments allowing for learning democracy
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POPULISM: CHALLENGE, INDICATOR, CHANCE?

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• Climate change as challenge, indicator and chance
• The natural environment teaches us a lesson
→ Rethink other ways of living
→ Keep the balance between different forms of sustainability
→ Allow responsible, sustainable, socially responsible forms of living
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CLIMATE: CHALLENGE, INDICATOR, CHANCE?

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• Digitisation as challenge, indicator and chance
• The latest wave of digitisation may be the last we can master
→ Rethink our way of dealing with science and technology
→ Science and industry are part of society
→ Create framework conditions for responsible research and innovation
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DIGITISATION: CHALLENGE, INDICATOR, CHANCE?

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• Globalisation as challenge, indicator and chance
• Globalisation is intimately linked to our form of production
→ Rethink our ways of doing business
→ Redefine profitability
→ Allow for old innovations such as the sharing economy
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GLOBALISATION: CHALLENGE, INDICATOR, CHANCE?

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Necessary pre-conditions for arriving at the eco-welfare state:
➢ Defend and reform democracy, e.g. by learning from populism
➢ Adapt our ways of living and balance forms of sustainability
➢ Create forms of responsible research and innovation
➢ Rethink how we do business and redefine profitability
➢ Defend and reform the European model of the welfare state
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GETTING TO THE ECO-WELFARE STATE

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PD DR. PETER BIEGELBAUER
Center for Innovation Systems & Policy
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria
T +43(0) 50550-4589 | M +43 664 88390033
peter.biegelbauer@ait.ac.at | http://www.ait.ac.at
http://austrianinstituteoftechnology.academia.edu/PeterBiegelbauer
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