Analyzing the potential for innovation brought about by social inclusion of handicapped people and designing a mechanism to make it sustainable

Abstract

Recently, the importance of ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) brought about by science and technology has been intensively discussed, and the social inclusion of handicapped people is the one important issue of the ELSI. Responding to the global environment and aging society, which previously required a cost burden, is now becoming an industry that drives innovation. Similarly, it is foreseeable that the social inclusion of handicapped people, which is recognized as a issue necessary of cost-burden, will drive innovation. In this study, we will use special subsidiaries of social welfare corporations as case studies to investigate and analyze the relationship between the social inclusion of people with disabilities and innovation, and to design social systems that will make social inclusion of people with disabilities sustainable.