ABSTRACT

Recent developments in responsible innovation have focused on the governance of innovation processes. The dimension of virtue in innovation processes has thereby been largely overlooked, and more significantly the constitutive relation between virtue and governance that enables responsible innovation. To understand responsible innovation in terms of this relation, this paper turns to Hannah Arendt’s ontology of the Vita Activa. First, it problematises responsible innovation in Arendt’s work, but then points at a hitherto undiscussed possibility of responsible innovation as ‘work in the mode of action’. Second, it explores this possibility as it arises out of nine modes for human activity in Arendt’s work, arguing that it constitutes a hybrid activity between world and plurality, durability and fragility, and the firm and the public sphere. Third, it explains how the ‘web of stories’ links virtuous action and governance, which points at a novel understanding of the role of narrative for responsible innovation.

摘要

负责任的创新的最新发展集中在创新过程的治理上。因此，在创新过程中美德的维度已被大大忽略，更重要的是，美德与治理之间的本构关系使负责任的创新成为可能。为了理解这种关系的负责任的创新，本文转向汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）的《维塔·阿蒂瓦（Vita Activa）》本体。首先，它对阿伦特工作中的负责任创新提出了质疑，但随后指出了迄今为止从未讨论过的负责任创新的可能性，即“以行动方式开展工作”。其次，它探讨了这种可能性，因为这种可能性源于阿伦特工作中的九种人类活动模式，认为它构成了世界与多元性，持久性与脆弱性以及企业与公共领域之间的混合活动。第三，