HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN THE INNOVATION ECONOMY

Today's society is characterized by the so-called "Innovation Economy", which, according to Habermas, is the development of capitalism in its late phase, having as paradigm the growing interdependence between research and technology, which transformed science into the main productive force of this economic model. The scientificization of the technique allowed to increase the productivity of the work inserting science, technique and economic value within the same system. Marx and Schumpeter, according to Habermas, had already suggested each one in their own way, that the capitalist mode of production can be conceived as a mechanism that guarantees a permanent propagation of the subsystems of rational acting-with-respect-to-ends and, with that, undermines the traditionalist "supremacy" of the institutional framework before the productive forces. Such technological complexity thus turns innovation into a vector of social exclusion. In this sense, the implications of a society based on the innovation economy for the establishment of a Human Rights system are examined, proposing alternative theoretical models based on the concepts of social innovation.