The new SIBE book by Klaus Mainzer calls for innovation portfolios as sustainable strategies for the future and explains various energy technologies, digitalization and artificial intelligence, using complex dynamic systems in nature, technology and society.Against the backdrop of the current political, economic and military world situation, it becomes clear what has been seriously lacking in the recent past – strategic thinking. The key to a successful strategy for Europe is innovation. The pressure of the current crises should be used to accelerate the transition to sustainable innovation. This is the way to solve the real big problem facing humanity – the global environmental and climate crisis.
However, the focus must not be on a single solution, but rather the entire technological potential must be bundled in an innovation portfolio. To this end, the advantages and disadvantages of solar and wind energy, hydropower, hydrogen, nuclear and fusion energy, for example, must be weighed against each other for Europe and combined in a “hybrid” energy system in order to align the European innovation portfolio with a sustainable future.
As with the energy issue, digitalization and artificial intelligence must not be based on a single solution, but rather the entire technological potential must be bundled in an innovation portfolio in order to be energy-efficient and sustainable. In the competition between value systems, Europe should be characterized by democratic legal certainty.