Responsible Innovation

How can we get the innovation we need…?

…rather than innovation that damages society and the environment?

Science policy that uses “anticipation, reflection and inclusive deliberation” to steer the innovation process may help…

But there may be wider issues of political economy at stake as well

A term of art in science policy discourse, e.g. 

Owen, Stilgoe, Macnaghten (for EPSRC)

“A commitment to care for the future through collective stewardship of science and innovation in the present”

Von Schomberg (for EU Framework Program)

“Responsible Research and Innovation is a transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products( in order to allow a proper embedding of scientific and technological advances in our society).”

http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=1542

Audio Recording of Richard Jones 

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