The 6th International Conference of Sociocybernetics, 'Sociocybernetics and Innovation', 6-10 July 2005, Maribor, Slovenia.(NEWS)

ISA--International Sociological Association Honorary Presidents: Walter Buckley, USA; Felix Geyer, Netherlands

Conference Theme

Sociocybernetics is about preconditions, ways and consequences of impacts in social entities. Innovation is every novelty accepted as beneficial by its users or consumers, be it technological or non-technological. Only 1% of patented inventions become innovations. An unknown small percentage of the other inventions become suggestions and about 7% of those become innovations. Technological development is interdependent with organizational development and they are both interdependent with social development from the local to the global level of world society. Innovation, the chance of success of which is 8%, is at the core of all development. Different local, regional …