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FROM CLIENT to CITIZEN: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME AS an INNOVATION POLICY PROPOSAL in URBAN ENVIRONMENTS Xavier Ferràs ESADE Business School (Barcelona) FROM CLIENT TO CITIZEN: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME AS AN INNOVATION POLICY PROPOSAL IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS Xavier Ferràs ESADE Business School (Barcelona) Boyd Cohen EADA Business School (Barcelona) ter the positive effects of the innovative phenomenon. In our Steffen Farny opinion, however, instead of treating it as a corrective measu- Aalto University School of Business re, we argue that the UBI can become an element of an inno- vation generating policy, with the capacity to correct inequality Rachida Justo and generate new economic value at the same time. With this Instituto de Empresa (Madrid) article, we intend to explore the link between innovation polici- dvanced economies have historically deployed es and social welfare policies, with the UBI as a common link. substantial efforts and resources to foster inno- We argue that the UBI can become the missing link between vation. Innovation is an undoubted force for innovation policies and those of social welfare, and become a economic growth and prosperity. Nevertheless, powerful instrument to stimulate innovation if its deployment there are growing signs that, although innovation (and, above focuses on local and urban environments. We justify this idea Aall, technological development) has given rise in recent years as the point of destination of the logical evolution of innovation to remarkable results in the generation of wealth, the pheno- policies over the last decades. menon in relation to the distribution of this wealth has not been considered. At present, there is a growing social debate Introduction: innovation, economic growth about the possibility of a jobless future (a future of labour shor- and inequality tages and widespread inequality, thanks to the replacement of Since Schumpeter introduced the term innovation in the mo- people with machines). In the middle of this debate emerges dern economy as the phenomenon of introduction of new the possibility of introducing a universal basic income (UBI for technologies in the market, this concept has become a man- the acronym in English) as a corrective mechanism. The pro- tra for managers and entrepreneurs, and an inevitable need posal is to offer money for nothing: give every citizen an un- for every economy to achieve growth. Innovation is understo- conditional cash amount (regardless of the working conditions od as the “theoretical conception, technical invention and and level of wealth of the individual), basic (to avoid falling be- commercial exploitation of new ideas” (Trott, 2008). There is low the threshold of poverty) and universal (for the entire enough economic evidence that correlates the degree of inno- world). This measure is presented as a corrective initiative, af- vation of a country, its economic growth and its personal inco- 8 2 • Revista Econòmica de Catalunya me (see, for example, Freeman, 2002), and that establishes research and development), generating public incentives to ac- causal relationships between these variables. celerate technological change, to improve the competitiveness and growth of companies and nations. Under this conceptual framework, governments have been stri- ving for decades to deploy innovation policies. Policies that However, 2008’s great recession, and the post-crisis scenario, seek to create institutional environments that encourage the in- have seriously challenged the old paradigm. Despite accelera- novation of companies in specific locations have been very suc- ting technological change, inequality extends into advanced cessful in the economic development of many countries, regi- economies. Absolute poverty in the United States (the country ons and local communities, from Israel to South Korea, Taiwan, with the highest gross investment in R + D in the world) has Singapore, Finland, Germany or the United Kingdom; Silicon continued to grow since 1980, and the wealth ratio of 0.1% of Valley has become the paradigm of innovative cluster imitated the population has increased five times in three decades (Fre- throughout the entire world. However, social aspects have been edman, 2016). Since 1972, the net productivity of the economy separated from the basic conceptions of innovation policies, has increased by 140.9%, while wages have only increased by which in general deal with the problem of wealth creation (letting 7.8% (Economic Policy Institute, 2013). In recent decades, des- welfare policies solve wealth distribution failures). The under- pite the advances in automation, robotics and big data, among lying framework of this logic has possibly been the conviction other disruptive technologies, we have witnessed a large de- that the first objective of the company is to obtain benefits and, coupling between labour productivity and average income or based on economic activity aimed at maximizing business re- job growth (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014). The value created sults, positive externalities are generated that flow spontane- by technological change seems to have only been captured by ously towards society, generating shared wealth. a small segment of the population. Large digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Apple or Google are the paradigm of According to Nobel Prize Milton Friedman (1970), “the sole pur- this dynamic. These companies have unparalleled technologi- pose of a business is to generate profits for its shareholders”. cal competitive advantages, they have global brands, economi- For this current of thought, the only social function of the com- es of unbeatable scale and reach, segmented reach to the user pany is limited to the benefits of the shareholder (in fact, the and great positive network effects. They are immense machines positive impact on society is a derivative of the positive impact of generating profits and attracting investment capital, in a feed- on the shareholders’ income statement). In his writings, Fried- back effect that expands them, advancing towards growing man explicitly mentioned the term social responsibility, believing niches of the old traditional economy. Nevertheless, as digitiza- that by maximizing individual benefits, by stimulating intense tion and automation spread, employment generation weakens: competition among companies, the economic system could these technology platforms are less intensive in creating em- offer better products and services and satisfy the consumer ployment than the old analogic leaders. Designed to maximize with a growing degree of excellence. If a company developed economic efficiency and reduce costs, digital companies are activities with explicitly negative social impact, the consumers less able to distribute wealth through employment and wages would stop buying their products. Thus, there is an automatic than traditional manufacturing companies. mechanism of self-regulation driven by the effect of the invisible hand of Adam Smith that would achieve an optimal balance of In summary, political responsibles face a paradox: on the one shared prosperity. With the enlargement of market economy hand, developed nations move towards a paradigm of abun- systems, the wealth of nations has grown uninterrupted over dance thanks to exponential technological development (Dia- the past two centuries. The economy has been driven by the mandis, 2012). On the other hand, yet, they are witnessing a effects of the industrial revolution and market forces, which growing competition for jobs and the threat of a future of scar- have lifted millions of people out of poverty and have brought city of employment due to the replacement of people by mac- undeniable added benefits to humanity, in all aspects, including hines (Silva and Lima, 2017). Under the current model, capita- education, communication, health, mobility and energy. Public lism seems to evolve towards a game of the winner takes it all, innovation policies reinforce the market economy system, ad- in which the richest segments accumulate progressively more dressing some of the problems of the system (mainly, market wealth, and from which the middle classes, the big losers of failures, where there is a suboptimal behaviour of this, such as the new scenario, are expelled. An illustration of this paradox Revista Econòmica de Catalunya • 8 3 is the case of the United States, a country widely recognized most proposed UBI schemes, the monthly payment is desig- as one of the global innovation economies, where levels of ned to ensure that all citizens live at least above the poverty inequality exceed those of any other society, anywhere in the line. In some schemes, the UBI replaces pre-existing social world, at any time of the history of humanity (Picketty, 2014). welfare systems, such as unemployment benefits, widowho- In this context, traditional innovation policies (whose ultimate od, pensions, disability or food vouchers. The defenders of goal is to accelerate technological change) are no longer a the UBI (existing in all areas of the political spectrum) point out driver of national prosperity. And, while many academics and the potential of this system to eliminate the bureaucratic cost thinkers still see the creation of economic growth as the ulti- of selecting who deserves it or who does not, making it un- mate goal of innovation policy, more and more voices are ri- conditional and universal, and, therefore, much easier to ma- sing (such as the OECD and the United Nations Conference nage. According to its defenders, the UBI would make the on Trade and Development) that perceive the maximizing of social welfare system more agile and consistent, would repla-
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