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On intersecting modes of responsibility in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: a case for reimagining responsible innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 M. Espig, S. Provost, A. W. Russell, J. N. M. Viaña, C. Koroheke, S. Finlay-Smits
This Perspective considers the potential value and limitations of introducing Responsible Innovation approaches from the Global North into Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. We reflect on the rela...
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Responsible retrospection: adapting responsible innovation to the liminal innovation of ICTs J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Ivan Veul, Lotte Krabbenborg
ICTs are ubiquitous in today's digitised societies, but Responsible Innovation (RI) approaches are ill-equipped to address the liminal nature of ICT innovation. ICTs remain malleable after their di...
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Epistemic inclusion: a key challenge for global RRI J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Hub Zwart, Ana Barbosa Mendes, Vincent Blok
Ten years after introducing the RRI concept, a reflection on its key ambitions seems called for, now that RRI enters the global arena. This paper focues on the key challenge that RRI is currently f...
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Exploring Responsible Research and Innovation in reputable agri-food cooperatives and the link to international orientation. An exploratory empirical case study in Spain J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 M. Isabel Sánchez Hernández, Francisca Castilla-Polo
This study aims to provide a preliminary estimate of the degree of implementation of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in agri-food cooperatives; to that end, it proposes an instrument for ...
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Directing innovation towards just outcomes: the role of principles and politics J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Theo Papaioannou
Contemporary innovation theorists tend to defend a combination of Schumpeterian and Keynesian politics of innovation as a solution to the problem of the directionality of new technologies. Their ho...
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Demonstrating the deep institutionalisation of de facto responsible research and innovation (rri) in participatory market contexts: examples from Bolivia and the Netherlands J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Sally Randles, Allison Loconto, Marc Steen
Our paper reprises the concept deep institutionalisation of responsible innovation considering why and how it matters to add the adjective ‘deep’. We distinguish de facto responsible research and i...
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Trust in autonomous vehicles: insights from a Swedish suburb J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kaspar Raats, Jesper Lund, Meike Brodersen
This paper investigates elements of trust in autonomous vehicles (AVs). We contextualise autonomous vehicles as part of people's everyday settings to extend previous understandings of trust and exp...
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Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Alexi Orchard, Marcel O’Gorman
In light of increasingly harmful social, psychological, and environmental impacts stemming from the tech industry, this article contributes to ongoing conversations regarding the need for more rigo...
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Infrastructuring citizenry in Smart City Vienna: investigating participatory smartification between policy and practice J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ulrike Felt, Pouya Sepehr
The notion ‘smart city' has found a prominent place in urban visions, policies, planning, and infrastructure development, often promising citizens’ participation in shaping urban futures. This pape...
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On with critique! The necessity of critique in addressing the political deficits of responsible innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lisann Penttilä
This article responds to the calls to address the political deficits of RI frameworks and uptakes by taking recourse to approaches inspired by the methods and emancipatory ambitions of critical the...
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The need for more inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnology J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Catherine Kendig, Theresa Selfa, Paul B. Thompson, Raymond Anthony, Wenda Bauchspies, Gwendolyn Blue, Ashmita Das, Rebecca Harrison, Chris Henke, Shan Jin, Jennifer Kuzma, Forbes Lipschitz, Kurt Richter, Morgan Ruelle, Timothy Silberg, Bruno Takahashi
An inclusive and socially legitimate governance structure is absent to address concerns over new agricultural biotechnologies. Establishing an agricultural bioethics commission devoted to inclusive...
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Perspectives of COPD patients, publicly funded scientists, and industry representatives on responsibility and stakeholder engagement in drug discovery research J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Zainab Afshan Sheikh, Helen Yu
Ensuring societal influence in research and innovation through stakeholder engagement is vital in the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) framework. By studying a drug discovery project, we e...
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Responsible innovation scholarship: normative, empirical, theoretical, and engaged J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Erik Fisher, Mareike Smolka, Richard Owen, Mario Pansera, David H. Guston, Armin Grunwald, John P. Nelson, Sujatha Raman, Philipp Neudert, Steven M. Flipse, Barbara Ribeiro
Published in Journal of Responsible Innovation (Vol. 11, No. 1, 2024)
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Dual use concerns of generative AI and large language models J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Alexei Grinbaum, Laurynas Adomaitis
We suggest the implementation of the Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) framework, originally designed for life sciences, to the domain of generative AI, with a specific focus on Large Language Mo...
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Responsible innovation goes south: critique, othering, and a commitment to care J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Poonam Pandey
This paper employs critique as othering to engage with mainstream renderings of Responsible Innovation (R(R)I) in a non-western setting. To re-image science-society relationships, initial framings ...
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Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sergio Urueña
Anticipation is increasingly recognized as a valuable dimension for promoting more responsible STI practices. Various normative frameworks acknowledge anticipation as a means to enable critique and...
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Critical responsible innovation – the role(s) of the researcher J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Bernd Carsten Stahl
Critical theory (CT) is a widely used theoretical approach that can be used to describe, understand and justify interventions into scientific and technical research and innovation. It can thus be c...
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Refusing participation: hesitations about designing responsible patient engagement with artificial intelligence in healthcare J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Flora Lysen, Sally Wyatt
The rapidly expanding field of artificial intelligence (AI) is often accompanied by calls for parallel research on its societal implications. For research about AI in healthcare, this translates to...
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Public acceptance in direct potable water reuse: a call for incorporating responsible research and innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Karen Moesker, Udo Pesch, Neelke Doorn
As global issues such as climate change and diminishing resources become increasingly pressing, water recycling has moved into the focus. However, the successful implementation of Direct Potable Wa...
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The new spirit of technoscience: recalibrating symmetrical STS critique J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Tess Doezema, Nina Frahm
This article situates Responsible Innovation (RI) as part of a larger shift in science and technology governance demanding a ‘social fix’ for innovation, which we argue amounts to a new spirit of t...
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Challenge-driven innovation and responsible innovation: dynamics and disconnects explored through the UK’s industrial biotechnology sector J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Achim Rosemann, Susan Molyneux-Hodgson
Recent years have seen the uptake of challenge and mission-oriented innovation policies in Europe, including the UK. These developments have been paralleled by variable support for responsible rese...
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University responsible research and innovation and society: dialogue or monologue? J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Reina Ferrández-Berrueco, Odet Moliner, Lucía Sánchez-Tarazaga, Auxiliadora Sales
University social responsibility requires dialogue with society and university activity. In the case of responsible research and innovation, this can involve interacting with society, listening to ...
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Frames, interests, and incentives – a typology of institutionalizing RRI in the business sector derived from ten pioneering projects J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Svetlana Ivanova, Constanze Reichetzer, André Martinuzzi, Florian Findler, Katharina Miko-Schefzig
While in scientific and policy discourse on responsible research and innovation (RRI) the desirability and sustainability of innovations are central, the business sector follows different logics re...
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Responsible innovation as transformational entrepreneurship by disabled people J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Eva Kašperová, Audley Genus
Responsible innovation (RI) has emerged as a powerful idea concerning the effective governance of science, technology and innovation. While much attention has been devoted to understanding and prom...
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It takes two to tango: toward a political concept of responsible innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Lucien von Schomberg, Vincent Blok
This paper proposes a political concept of Responsible Innovation (RI). As a first step, we diagnose the RI discourse with a conceptual ambiguity, struggling to accommodate both private and public ...
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A model of social responsibility for start-ups: developing a cross-fertilisation of responsible innovation, the lean start-up approach, and the quadruple helix approach J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Mark Ryan, Eugen Octav Popa, Vincent Blok, Andrea Declich, Maresa Berliri, Alfonso Alfonsi, Simeon Veloudis
In this paper, we cross-fertilise responsible innovation (RI), the Lean Start-up approach (LSA) and the Quadruple Helix approach (QH) within one model: the social responsibility for start-ups model...
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Situating the social sciences in responsible innovation in the global south: the case of gene drive mosquitoes J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Katie Ledingham, Chris Opesen, Sarah Hartley, Stella Neema
There has been growing attention in recent years on the potential reconfiguration of responsible innovation (RI) to increase its relevance for global challenges in the Global South. This reconfigur...
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Responsible research and innovation in innovation value chains: focus on the catalytic role of non-governmental organizations J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Carmine Passavanti, C. Ponsiglione, S. Primario, P. Rippa
This study explores the role of NGOs in Innovation Value Chains (IVCs) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). It investigates how NGOs' presence influences RRI adoption in ecosystems and wh...
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Examining the legitimacy of inclusive innovation processes: perspectives from smallholder farmers in Uasin Gishu, Kenya J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Felix Ouko Opola, Laurens Klerkx, Cees Leeuwis, Catherine W. Kilelu
In recent decades, the concept of inclusive innovation has been used to refer to how innovation can include actors that are considered marginalised from its processes and outcomes. Contrary to the ...
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Critiques from within. A modest proposal for reclaiming critique for responsible innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Anna Mann, Luca Chiapperino
How can critique in responsible innovation (RI) become generative? The anything-but-neutral relations between science, technology and society, at the core of science and technology studies, have le...
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The ‘Metaverse’ and the challenge of responsible standards development J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Thomas A. Hemphill
ABSTRACT On June 21, 2022, the Metaverse Standards Forum (or ‘Forum') was announced with 35 founding members, including Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Cesium, the Web3D Consortium, and the Web 3d Consortium. The Forum, a unique coordinating structure designed to develop agreement on fundamental technical, interoperability protocols for the metaverse, may provide the technical
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Participation in monitoring and evaluation for RRI: a review of procedural approaches developing monitoring and evaluation mechanisms J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Irene Monsonís-Payá, Edurne A. Iñigo, Vincent Blok
ABSTRACT Three arguments support the involvement of actors in the design and implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). First, it strengthens the evaluation; second, it allows taking advantage of the performative function; third, it is aligned with the concept of RRI. In Europe, the trend to institutionalize RRI triggered an interest in developing
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Mobilizing capital for responsible innovation: the role of social finance in supporting innovative projects J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 H. P. Silva, P. Lehoux, R. P. Sabio
ABSTRACT The literature on Responsible Innovation (RI) has not yet fully addressed the role played by social finance (SF) in supporting projects and organizations engaged in the production of innovations that tackle grand societal challenges. This study addresses this gap by empirically examining how SF investors select potential investees and the principles they judge important in SF. Our findings
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Widening the scope of responsible innovation: food waste and the role of consumers J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Matteo Corciolani, Julia Szulecka, Nhat Strøm-Andersen
ABSTRACT Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) scholars often emphasise the distributed nature of innovation, but RRI generally targets researchers or innovators (or their organisations). Can we, within an RRI approach, expect consumers to be more active innovation agents and to be held more responsible for driving innovation in the right direction? To explore this question, we studied the societal
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Doing co-creation: power and critique in the development of a European health data infrastructure J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Ulrike Felt, Susanne Öchsner, Robin Rae, Ekaterina Osipova
ABSTRACT This paper engages with the translation of the abstract concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into practice. Our investigation is situated within a large-scale European project seeking to develop a citizen-centered digital health data platform. We specifically engage with co-creation practices and their potential for creating and maintaining inclusive environments generative
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Ethical, political and epistemic implications of machine learning (mis)information classification: insights from an interdisciplinary collaboration between social and data scientists J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Andrés Domínguez Hernández, Richard Owen, Dan Saattrup Nielsen, Ryan McConville
ABSTRACT Machine learning (ML) classification models are becoming increasingly popular for tackling the sheer volume and speed of online misinformation. In building these models data scientists need to make assumptions about the legitimacy and authoritativeness of the sources of ‘truth’ employed for model training and testing. This has political, ethical and epistemic implications which are rarely
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Rethinking ‘responsibility’ in precision agriculture innovation: lessons from an interdisciplinary research team J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Edward Prutzer, Maaz Gardezi, Donna M. Rizzo, Mary Emery, Scott Merrill, Benjamin E.K. Ryan, Panagiotis D. Oikonomou, Juan P. Alvez, Damilola T. Adereti, Rubaina Anjum, Appala R. Badireddy, Dwarika Bhattarai, Skye Brugler, Nicholas Cheney, David Clay, Sharon Clay, Ali Dadkhah, Joshua W. Faulkner, Deepak R. Joshi, Christopher Koliba, John McMaine, Semhar Michael, Sardorbek Musayev, Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne
ABSTRACT We examine the interactions, decisions, and evaluations of an interdisciplinary team of researchers tasked with developing an artificial intelligence-based agricultural decision support system that can provide farmers site-specific information about managing nutrients on their land. We answer the following research questions: (1) How does a relational perspective help an interdisciplinary
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Adapting to changing values: a framework for responsible decision-making in smart city development J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Marjolein Heezen, Udo Pesch, Aad Correlje, Liesbet Van Zoonen, Janneke Ten Kate
ABSTRACT Smart cities are proposed as a solution for problems of urbanization. Technologies associated with smart cities involve the monitoring of human activities and resulting data streams. These technologies affect certain public values, which may be subject to change depending on their sociotechnical development. This paper presents a method that enables decision-makers to anticipate on this pattern
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Responsible innovation ecosystem governance: socio-technical integration research for systems-level capacity building J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Mareike Smolka, Stefan Böschen
ABSTRACT Calls for a ‘systemic turn’ in Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I) stem from unease with engagement research. Engagement research structures science-society interactions to align research and innovation processes with societal considerations. As this research often focuses on micro practices of actors at discrete events or in bounded environments, it tends
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Facilitating adoption of responsible innovation in business through certification J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Miklós Lukovics, Benedek Nagy, Zenlin Kwee, Emad Yaghmaei
ABSTRACT In this paper, we use an economic approach to demonstrate why ‘rational’ businesses are not likely to implement responsible innovation (RI) unless it is economically profitable. The lack of sufficient insights into economic impacts of RI is often induced by information asymmetry. Such asymmetry would hinder consumers who would otherwise be willing to pay higher prices for products or services
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Responsible impact and the reinforcement of responsible innovation in the public sector ecosystem: cases of digital health innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Bernard Naughton, Sue Dopson, Tatiana Iakovleva
ABSTRACT Responsible innovation is an important consideration for digital health innovation. This study explores the responsible innovation processes of digital health innovators, and the reinforcement of responsible innovation practices. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews followed by a thematic analysis and narrative enquiry, we understand the lived experiences of innovators in the UK and
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Does entrepreneurship belong in the academy? Revisiting the idea of the university J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Lukas Fuchs, Gunter Bombaerts, Isabelle Reymen
ABSTRACT Academic entrepreneurship is a contentious university activity, but there is little engagement in the relevant literature with the idea of the university itself. References and assumptions about the role of universities in society are barely made explicit even though the centuries-old development of the idea of the university carries great insights. In this paper, we consider some of the deep
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Renewable energy Living Labs through the lenses of responsible innovation: building an inclusive, reflexive, and sustainable energy transition J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Inês Campos, Esther Marín-González
ABSTRACT Responsible Innovation (RI) offers Sustainability Transitions (ST) research methodologies a pathway to enable more inclusive, responsive, and sustainable transitions. Specifically, Living Labs (LLs) can benefit from RI scholarship in the scope of their sustainability research designs, as they may thereby be able to better foster critical thinking, inclusivity, and reflexivity. Drawing on a
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Configuring more responsible knowledge-based bio-economies: the case of alternative agro-food networks J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Katerina Psarikidou
ABSTRACT The ‘knowledge-based bio-economy’ (KBBE) constitutes a prominent research and innovation policy narrative underlining the centrality of knowledge and innovation as important products and resources driving contemporary economies and societies. However, a narrow understanding of the KBBE prevails, resulting in the exclusion of a wider diversity of stakeholders and knowledges that could lead
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Stop re-inventing the wheel: or how ELSA and RRI can align J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Mark Ryan, Vincent Blok
ABSTRACT Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) originated in the 4th European Research Framework Programme (1994) and responsible research and innovation (RRI) from the EC research agenda in 2010. ELSA has received renewed attention in European funding schemes and research. This raises the question of how these two approaches to social responsibility relate to one another and if there is the possibility
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The RRI map: making sense of responsible research and innovation in science education J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Emanuele Bardone, Mirjam Burget, Margus Pedaste
ABSTRACT Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has attracted the interest of educational researchers in an attempt to see how teaching RRI can be introduced into education. The literature has focused on how to link the RRI framework to the specific field of science education in comprehensive school and upper secondary school. While explicit connections with existing philosophies of science education
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The role of human experience when making sense of brain monitoring: an interdisciplinary case study to assess wearable, non-invasive, brain-monitoring devices for rehabilitation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Martha Risnes, Olga Korostynska, Peyman Mirtaheri, Arild Berg
ABSTRACT Wearable, non-invasive, brain-monitoring technologies could take research outside the laboratory, to make discoveries about the human brain in different, and sometimes more relevant, settings for the specific research. While this could lead to new scientific discoveries, there is a need to understand how individuals benefit from and make sense of interactions with such technology. This study
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Responsible innovation in venture creation and firm development: the case of digital innovation in healthcare and welfare services J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Raj Kumar Thapa, Tatiana Iakovleva
ABSTRACT The increasing adaptation of digitalisation has engendered numerous venture ideas and entrepreneurial opportunities. Many of these ideas bear the potential to address grand societal challenges. However, perceived opportunities can be elusive, especially in the context of complex problems. Opportunity confidence (OC) can be essential to venture creation and firm development. OC depends on evaluating
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Enacting anticipatory heuristics: a tentative methodological proposal for steering responsible innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Sergio Urueña
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, various normative frameworks that aim to promote more responsible governance of research and innovation in terms of better aligning with society's demands and expectations have emerged. Among the common aspects of these normative frameworks and proposals is the reliance on foresight and/or anticipation as a key interventive dimension or instrument. The article reviews
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Governing gene-edited crops: risks, regulations, and responsibilities as perceived by agricultural genomics experts in Canada J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Sarah-Louise Ruder, Milind Kandlikar
ABSTRACT This paper explores the role and responsibilities of agricultural genomics experts in governing gene editing (GE) for food and agriculture, engaging with the frameworks of technological determinism and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). We interview agricultural genomics experts in Canada to study expert views on risks, benefits, and regulatory challenges of GE crops and the extent
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From a land ‘down under’: the potential role of responsible innovation as practice during the bottom-up development of mission arenas in Australia J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Simon J. Fielke, Justine Lacey, Emma Jakku, Janelle Allison, Cara Stitzlein, Katie Ricketts, Andy Hall, Alexander Cooke
ABSTRACT This perspective paper integrates theories of responsible innovation (RI) with the nascent development of the concept of mission-oriented innovation to address wicked socio-institutional challenges. Theoretically, steering a Mission-oriented Innovation System (MIS) and associated ‘mission arena' toward activities that create virtuous cycles of RI practice will lead to cumulative impacts on
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Putting visions in their place: responsible research and innovation for energy system decarbonization J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Christopher Groves, Karen Henwood, Nick Pidgeon, Catherine Cherry, Erin Roberts, Fiona Shirani, Gareth Thomas
ABSTRACT Decarbonizing energy systems is an ambitious sociotechnical project, and will have significant implications for social justice, given the increasing dependence of societies globally on energy services. Eliciting non-expert values and perspectives to help reflect on the desirability of visions of socio-technical change has long been promoted within RRI. However, RRI has focused on specific
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Paving the way for a softer regulation of CRISPR in Norway: public engagement as window dressing J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Marit Svingen
ABSTRACT Gene editing technologies like CRISPR have raised questions about the need for new regulations throughout Europe. In Norway, the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board initiated a comprehensive process to formulate a proposal for a relaxation of the regulation of GMOs in 2016. This article investigates the Board's initiative as part of the prevailing RRI policy discourse and follows how the
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If deliberation is the answer, what is the question? Objectives and evaluation of public participation and engagement in science and technology J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Jesse L. Reynolds, Eric B. Kennedy, Jonathan Symons
ABSTRACT Public participation and engagement in decision-making regarding science and technology (‘PP&E’) is an increasingly common practice. But what is known of whether PP&E achieves its goals? Surprisingly, little research evaluates PP&E. We put forth three reasons why PP&E advocates and practitioners should take evaluation seriously: the absence of evaluation causes PP&E's advocacy to fail a minimal
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Scientists need professional development to practice meaningful public engagement J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Kathryn A. Stofer, David Hanson, Kirsten Hecht
ABSTRACT Public engagement with science is emerging in research and practice, but most research focuses on perspectives of and/or outcomes for public communities, not scientists. However, multi-way communication and mutual learning among community members and scientists are key features defining public engagement of science. In this perspectives article, focused on three studies of scientists' experiences
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Futures labs: a space for pedagogies of responsible innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Shannon N. Conley, Brad Tabas, Emily York
ABSTRACT Lab spaces can teach STEM ethics by highlighting and creating opportunities to practice the four key dimensions of the AIRR framework of Responsible Innovation (RI): anticipation, inclusion, responsiveness, and reflexivity. In this paper, we introduce ‘Futures Labs’∼ as a pedagogical approach to train students in RI skills and encourage them to become aware of, and more concerned about, the
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The social lab as a method for experimental engagement in participatory research J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 ilse Marschalek, Vincent Blok, Michael Bernstein, Robert Braun, Joshua Cohen, Margit Hofer, Lisa M. Seebacher, Elisabeth Unterfrauner, Stephanie Daimer, Mika Nieminen, Malene Vinther Christensen, Raj Kumar Thapa
ABSTRACT How does the Social Lab methodology support participatory research? This paper provides an evidence-based analysis of experiences of 19 implemented Social Labs applying experiential learning cycles on the question of how to induce Responsible Research and Innovation in the Horizon2020 research funding scheme of the European Commission and beyond. It looks at the potentials of Social Labs to
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Responsible innovation in the age of science conspiracism J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Eugen Octav Popa, Vincent Blok
ABSTRACT Responsible innovation is centered around the ideal that societal stakeholders are entitled to participate in scientific and technological decision-making by voicing their needs and worries. Individuals who believe in science conspiracies (referred to here as ‘science conspiracists’) pose a challenge to implementing this ideal because it is not clear under what conditions their inclusion in
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Norm-critical innovation as a way forward for responsible innovation? Evidence from a Swedish innovation policy program J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Lea Fuenfschilling, Linda Paxling, Eugenia Perez Vico
ABSTRACT In 2014, the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova set up the program ‘Gender and Diversity for Innovation’, which has its roots in norm-critical innovation. In line with rationales for responsible innovation, a central aim of the program is to identify and challenge discriminatory norms to develop more inclusive and equal innovation processes. This article presents the findings of an in-depth
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Defining success in community-university partnerships: lessons learned from Flint J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.37) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Chelsea Wentworth, Kent Key, Renée V. Wallace, Miles McNall, Jennifer Hodbod, Steven A. Gray
ABSTRACT The success of responsible research and innovation (RRI) work is as much about the process of partnership as it is about the products and outcomes. In this paper, we present lessons learned from the first three years of a participatory modeling (PM) research project based on RRI principles and focused on the transformation of the food system in Flint, Michigan through identification of leverage