Abstract This paper introduces the difference between “drop-in innovation” and “functional innovation”. The former aims to maintain the existing paradigm, while the latter aims to fulfill equivalent functionalities favouring low-tech and degrowth options, instead of promising sustainability without changes thanks to technological change. Moving beyond the debate regarding the nature of eco-innovations, a social ecological economics of eco-innovation promises is developed to determine the potential contribution of eco-innovations to the transition towards a post-growth economy. This framework is applied to the case of bioplastics showing how they may depart from the productivism paradigm.

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嵌入式与功能创新的前景：以生物塑料为例

摘要 本文介绍了“插入式创新”与“功能创新”的区别。前者旨在维持现有范式，而后者旨在实现有利于低技术和去增长选项的等效功能，而不是承诺不会因技术变革而改变的可持续性。除了关于生态创新性质的辩论之外，还开发了生态创新承诺的社会生态经济学，以确定生态创新对向后增长经济过渡的潜在贡献。该框架适用于生物塑料的案例，展示了它们如何偏离生产主义范式。