ABSTRACT

From the early days of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), luck has played the role of an antagonist to responsibility: responsible innovation is, in part, an effort to control for the possible negative effects of luck – the chance that chance itself will take our technologies in directions that we would rather avoid. If we are to have innovations that are socially desirable and ethically acceptable, it seems, we must prevent bad luck by controlling for uncertainty wherever we can. This control-based approach has, however, proven to be impossible, with consequences for the practice of research, for the institutions that fund and guide research directions, and for how we as a society conceive of the potential for responsible research to deal well with the uncertainties of our contemporary and future world. This special issue of the Journal of Responsible Innovation tackles the relationship between responsibility and luck head on, with authors providing assessments and potential solutions for the problems that luck creates, for how researchers conceive of their own responsibilities, how institutions can be more responsible toward research itself, and how we can take luck up into our innovation practices in a productive way.

摘要

从负责任的研究和创新（RRI）的早期开始，运气就扮演了责任的对抗者：负责任的创新在某种程度上是一种努力，以控制运气可能产生的负面影响-机会本身将承担的机会我们宁愿避免的方向。看来，如果我们要进行社会上合意且在伦理上可以接受的创新，则我们必须通过控制不确定性来防止运气不好。但是，这种基于控制的方法已被证明是不可能的，这对研究实践，资助和指导研究方向的机构以及我们作为一个社会如何认识到负责任研究的潜力具有潜在意义的后果产生了影响。当代和未来世界的不确定性。本期特刊《负责任的创新杂志》解决了责任与运气之间的关系，作者为运气所产生的问题，研究人员如何承担自己的责任，机构如何对研究本身承担更多责任提供评估和潜在解决方案可以富有成效地融入我们的创新实践。