Boundless Innovation, Within Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Sufficiency-Driven Innovation
Boundless Innovation, Within Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Sufficiency-Driven Innovation
This WRF Position Paper calls for a fundamental shift in innovation logic — away from optimising high-throughput systems and toward redesigning provisioning systems that reduce resource demand at source. Grounded in five principles, the proposed sufficiency-driven innovation (SDI) framework reframes sufficiency not as sacrifice, but as a design principle for delivering human wellbeing within planetary boundaries.