Abstract
This chapter explores the notion of responsible innovation (RI) as it is currently being imagined in policy and governance practice. It does this in the context of three different countries: the UK, US and Denmark. We ask how RI is being constituted within policy discussion. What is it understood as being? What kinds of actors are implicated in it? And what is its scope, or field of action? In exploring these questions, we argue that responsible innovation is currently a largely international discourse, and that it remains unclear, from current policy discussion, how it should be put into practice. Though it is tied to a linear model of science and technology, in which both the process and outputs of scientific research are, through RI, imbued with responsibility, the actors involved and the fields in which they are assumed to operate are exceedingly general. As such, RI appears to be a fundamentally de-individualised process.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Responsible Innovation 2 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Concepts, Approaches, and Applications |
| Editors | Bert-Jaap Koops, Ilse Oosterlaken, Henny Romijn, Tsjalling Swierstra, Jeroen van den Hoven |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Pages | 37-56 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-17308-5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-17307-8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 509017 Social studies of science
Keywords
- Ethics
- Discourse analysis
- Responsible innovation
- Innovation/Technology Management
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Social Sciences, general
- Civic epistemology
- De-individualisation