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If you are for market creation, you should be for market destruction! Ethics and the relations between exnovation and innovation for changing direction J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Lukas Fuchs, Rafael Ziegler
While innovation and market creation have long received attention for changing the direction of socio-economic development, exnovation and market destruction have received such attention only recen...
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Correction J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-05
Published in Journal of Responsible Innovation (Vol. 11, No. 1, 2024)
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Is ‘digital transition’ a syntax error? Purpose, emergence and directionality in a contemporary governance discourse J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Bonno Pel
An important precondition for responsible innovation is the awareness of directionality: Dynamic innovation processes can take different, more or less favorable, turns. The ongoing wave of digital ...
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Norwegian supply chain collaboration when it is urgent to reduce food waste: the relation between efforts for good outcomes and engaging in RRI process dimensions J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Ina Charlotte Berntsen, Andreas Brekke, Anne-Grete Haugen, Aina Elstad Stensgård, Nhat Strøm-Andersen, Erik Vold, Julia Szulecka
Food waste is a major source of avoidable greenhouse gas emissions. Responsible research and innovation (RRI) should contribute to meeting urgent challenges like climate change. This paper discusse...
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Critique in, for, with, and of responsible innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Mareike Smolka, Tess Doezema, Lucien van Schomberg
Critique has been a central theme in Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I). R(R)I promises to critique dominant technocratic and economic regimes by conducting crit...
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Examining funders’ roles in responsible research and innovation of medical neurotechnology J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Denis Larrivee, Jennifer French, Alberto Antonietti, Zach McKinney, Noeline W. Prins, Joana Soldado-Magraner, Michael J. Young, Laura Y. Cabrera
Advances in medical neurotechnology (MNT) have the potential to improve the evaluation and management of conditions of the nervous system. Meanwhile, increasing concern over ethical questions and r...
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Critical proximity in translating RRI J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Anestis Amanatidis, Tom Børsen
The term ‘translation’ has been proliferating in reflections of researchers who participated in European projects engaging with responsible research and innovation (RRI). Additionally, the outlines...
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Scandal in scientific reform: the breaking and remaking of science J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Bart Penders
This perspective explores the Scientific Reform Movement and its links to scandalized claims, such as ‘science is broken’. It delves into the pivotal role of scandal in shaping and sustaining this ...
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Implementing responsible innovation: the role of the meso-level(s) between project and organisation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Bernd Carsten Stahl, Virginia Portillo, Hanne Wagner, Peter J. Craigon, Dimitrios Darzentas, Santiago De Ossorno Garcia, Liz Dowthwaite, Chris Greenhalgh, Stuart E. Middleton, Elena Nichele, Christian Wagner, Helena Webb
Much of academic discussion of responsible innovation (RI) has focused on RI integration into research projects. In addition, significant attention has also been paid to RI structures and policies ...
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Pluralizing RRI pedagogy: ‘cachando’ tactical lessons towards critical resistance for responsible research and innovation learning J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Martín Perez Comisso, Ben Gansky, Lindsay A. Smith
Opening up RRI to values and ways of knowing and doing beyond its European and Anglophone origins has become a focal area for scholars and practitioners. This article addresses the role of RRI peda...
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Responsibility and the hidden politics of directionality: opening up ‘innovation democracies’ for sustainability transformations J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Andy Stirling
Developing earlier work, this paper explores analytic and political implications of ideas about direction in innovation. Unduly hidden in mainstream innovation and sustainability transformations li...
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Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Julian “Iñaki” Goñi, Eugenia Rodrigues, Maria Jesus Parga, Martín Illanes, María José Millán
The operationalisation of Responsible Research and Innovation is increasingly associated with ethical toolkits. However, scholars remain critical of those toolkits, often referring to them as theor...
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Mismatched and misaligned: responsibility narratives in American research labs for synthetic biotechnologies J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Maya Hey
This article examines what responsibility means in the context of synthetic biotechnologies, based on academic researchers in the American west who are using/developing synthetic biology, engineeri...
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Voice from the Beehive: structuring and recording responsible innovation for novel technologies J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 C. Ten Holter, M. Jirotka
Societal trust in research and innovation is predicated on factors such as governance, safety, and responsible development. These are often thought of as regulatory matters, but regulation may be i...
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Is a convivial synthetic biology possible? J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Matthew J. Tarnowski, Mario Pansera
Synthetic biology predominantly follows a market-driven approach, both within the private sector and academia. We present a research journey undertaken by a synthetic biologist who received guidanc...
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Journeys towards decolonising research practices in Aotearoa New Zealand J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 S. Finlay-Smits, S. Manning, P. Edwards, M. Walton, C. Koroheke, M. Espig
This perspective piece focuses on attempts to reshape research in Aotearoa New Zealand in ways that honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the country's founding treaty between Māori and the Crown. These obl...
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Self-similarity and synthetic biology: a possible fractal anticipation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Robert Meckin
In the field of synthetic biology, a promissory technoscience, researchers use risk-based and speculative scenarios to anticipate synthetic biology futures. Yet, there is a sense in the field of hi...
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A directional dilemma in climate innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Kian Mintz-Woo
One branch of the responsible innovation literature involves the direction of innovation: if the public or decision-makers can or should direct innovation, how should innovation be directed? This p...
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Technology assessment and the governance of automated vehicles: a Collingridge-dilemma or a lack in normative orientation? J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Jens Schippl
It is often assumed, at least implicitly, that responsible governance of automated vehicles (AVs) requires more knowledge about the future development of the innovation and its potential consequenc...
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‘We have opened a can of worms’: using collaborative ethnography to advance responsible artificial intelligence innovation J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Andrés Domínguez Hernández, Richard Owen
With the recent rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI), social scientists and computational scientists have approached overlapping questions about ethics, responsibility, and fairness. ...
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Radical reflexivity, experimental ontology and RRI J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Robert Braun
RRI does not challenge what this paper calls ‘lyseology’: mobilizing science to convince policy makers and the public that the present possesses some form of lack that should be addressed with a ne...
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Toward institutionalization of responsible research and innovation: insights from case studies of technological centers in Spain J. Responsible Innov. (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Hannia Gonzalez-Urango, Carmen Corona-Sobrino, Mónica García-Melón, Pedro Marques
The frameworks governing Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) are heterogeneous and constantly evolving and adapting. We build upon this adaptability to explore the potential development of RR...
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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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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 3.9) 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