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= Exnovation is a concept used in Sustainability transitions theory
Description
Giuseppe Feola et al. :
A ‘conscious decision to phase out technology or practice, to decommission it, and to withdraw the corresponding resources and use them for other purposes’ (Kimberly 1981, p. 91)
Abandons, purposively terminates, de-funds, de-routinizes and/or de-institutionalizes socially and environmentally destructive/exploitative technologies, and the production and consumption practices with which they are bound.
Allows political and financial capital to be invested in alternative technologies (e.g. low-tech, frugal technologies) and related practices, value systems (e.g. oriented towards care), and more horizontal power structures."
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378021000698)