This paper is a critical reflection on the concepts of Responsible Innovation (RI) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). We offer an account of the emergence of these related but different accounts of responsible innovation that have recently been adopted by funders. We further report on our exploration of the knowledge and understanding of these concepts through the views of senior scientists involved in synthetic biology research projects. Though most of our respondents struggled to provide a clear account of RI/RRI we identified that existing “practices of responsibility” include many aspects of RI/RRI but that this often went unrecognized as such. Most respondents associated RI/RRI with risk avoidance. While some visions of RI/RRI see scientists as taking an active role in shaping the future of innovation, we suggest that it is not for such individuals to take decisions alone on the types of futures a society should have available to it.

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对合成生物学负责任（研究与）创新实践的思考

本文是对负责任创新 (RI) 和负责任研究与创新 (RRI) 概念的批判性反思。我们提供了最近被资助者采用的这些相关但不同的负责任创新账户的出现。我们通过参与合成生物学研究项目的资深科学家的观点，进一步报告我们对这些概念的知识和理解的探索。尽管我们的大多数受访者都努力提供关于 RI/RRI 的清晰说明，但我们发现现有的“责任实践”包括 RI/RRI 的许多方面，但这往往未被认识到。大多数受访者将 RI/RRI 与风险规避联系起来。虽然 RI/RRI 的一些愿景认为科学家在塑造创新的未来方面发挥着积极作用，