The documentary features a talk of the US-American writer and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin summarising the main points of his 2011 book "The Third Industrial Revolution."

Innovationspolitik ist relevant für eine klimabewusstere Zukunft – und ihre Relevanz geht über die generelle Förderung allgemein umweltbewusster Innovationen hinaus.

In this book, Carlota Perez develops her Neo-Schumpeterian concept of "techno-economic paradigms" which captures the patterns underlying the role of technological revolutions in economic development since the Industrial revolution.