Responsible innovation: managing the responsible emergence of science and innovation in society

Foreword: Why Responsible Innovation? / Jack Stilgoe

Preface

List of Contributors

1. Innovation in the Twenty-First Century / John Bessant

1.1. Introduction

1.2. How Can We Innovate? - Innovation as a Process

1.3. Where Could We Innovate? - Innovation Strategy

1.4. Reframing Innovation

1.5. Reframing Challenges for Twenty-First Century Innovation

1.5.1. The Spaghetti Challenge

1.5.2. The Sappho Challenge - Bringing Stakeholders into the Frame

1.5.3. The Sustainability Challenge - Innovation for Sustainable Development

1.6. Emergent Properties of the New Innovation Environment

2. A Framework for Responsible Innovation / Richard Owen / Jack Stilgoe / Phil Macnaghten / Mike Gonnan / Erik Fisher / Dave Guston

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Context: the Imperative for Responsible Innovation

2.2.1. Re-evaluating the Social Contract for Science and Innovation

2.2.2. The Responsibility Gap

2.2.3. The Dilemma of Control

2.2.4. Products and Purposes: the Democratic Governance of Intent

2.3. Locating Responsible Innovation within Prospective Dimensions of Responsibility

2.4. Four Dimensions of Responsible Innovation

2.5. Responsible Innovation: from Principles to Practice

2.5.1. Some Experiments in Responsible Innovation

2.6. Toward the Future: Building Capacity for Responsible Innovation

3. A Vision of Responsible Research and Innovation / René von Schomberg

3.1. Introduction: Technical Inventions, Innovation, and Responsibility

3.2. Responsible Research and Innovation and the Quest for the Right Impacts of Research

3.3. Defining the Right Impacts and Outcomes of Research

3.4. From Normative Anchor Points Toward the Defining of "Grand Challenges" and the Direction of Innovation

3.5. Responsible Research and Innovation: Organizing Collective Responsibility

3.5.1. Some Examples of Irresponsible Innovation

3.6. A Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation

3.6.1. Use of Technology Assessment and Technology Foresight

3.6.2. Application of Precautionary Principle

3.6.3. Innovation Governance

3.7. Outlook

4. Value Sensitive Design and Responsible Innovation / Jeroen van den Hoven

4. J Introduction

4.2. Innovation and Moral Overload

4.3. Values and Design

4.4. Responsible Innovation

5. Responsible Innovation - Opening Up Dialogue and Debate / Kathy Sykes / Phil Macnaghten

5.1. A Short History of Controversies about Science and Technology

5.2. The Evolution of Public Engagement

5.3. The Case of Genetically Modified Foods in the UK

5.4. Sciencewise and the Institutional Embedding of Public Engagement in the UK

5.5. Motivations for Public Dialogue

5.6. The Claims for Public Dialogue

5.7. How (and When) Can Debate and Dialogue Be Opened Up?

5.8. The Substance of Public Concerns and Their Implications for Governance

5.9. Concluding Remarks

6. "Daddy, Can I Have a Puddle Gator?": Creativity, Anticipation, and Responsible Innovation / David H. Guston

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Understanding Anticipation

6.3. The Politics of Novelty

6.4. The Challenge of Speculative Ethics

6.5. Conclusion

7. What Is "Responsible" about Responsible Innovation? Understanding the Ethical Issues / Alexei Grinbaum / Christopher Groves

7.1. Introduction

7.2. The Changing Meaning of Responsibility

7.2.1. From the Divine Corporation to the Sovereign Individual

7.2.2. Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Human Finitude

7.2.3. Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Responsibility

7.3. Beyond the Sovereign Individual: Collective Responsibility, Desire, and Cultural Narratives

7.3.1. Passion Sits Alongside Reason

7.3.2. Non-Consequentialist Individual Responsibility

7.3.3. Collective Political Responsibility

7.3.4. The Virtues of Responsible Innovation

7.3.5. Narratives Take over Where Cost-Benefit Analysis Fails

7.4. Conclusion: Responsibility and Meaning

8. Adaptive Governance for Responsible Innovation / Robert G. Lee / JudithPetts

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Risk and Adaptive Governance

8.3. Responsibility and Accountability

8.4. The Rationale for Regulation

8.5. Risk Regulation and Accountability for Product Safety

8.6. The Adaptation of Risk Regulation

8.7. Adaptive Innovation Governance: Limits and Needs

8.8. Conclusion

9. Responsible Innovation: Multi-Level Dynamics and Soft Intervention Practices / Erik Fisher / Arte Rip

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Discourse and Activities at Different Levels of Governance

9.2.1. International and Bi-Lateral Meetings

9.2.2. Legislative Initiatives

9.2.3. Research Funding Agencies

9.2.4. Intermediary Organizations and Consortia

9.2.5. Concrete Activities

9.3. Two Cases of "Soft" Intervention

9.3.1. STIRing the Capacities of Science and Innovation Practitioners

9.3.2. Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA) of Newly Emerging Science and Technology

9.4. Concluding Observations on Governance

10. Responsible Innovation in Finance: Directions and Implications / Fabian Muniesa / Marc Lenglet

10.1. Introduction

10.2. Perspectives on Responsible Innovation in Finance

10.2.1. Perspective on Function

10.2.2. Perspective on Moral Rules

10.2.3. Perspective on Internalized Values

10.2.4. Perspective on Aggregate Consequences

10.2.5. Perspective on Accountability

10.2.6. Perspective on Precaution

10.2.7. Perspective on Democracy

10.3. Some Directions for Further Reflection

10.4. Conclusion

11. Responsible Research and Innovation in Information and Communication Technology: Identifying and Engaging with the Ethical Implications of ICTs / Bernd Carsten Stahl / Grace Eden / Marina Jirotka

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Conceptualizing Responsibility and Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT

11.2.1. Responsibility as a Social Ascription

11.2.2. Responsible Research and Innovation as Meta-Responsibility

11.2.3. Responsible Research and Innovation: the Four "P"s

11.3. Building a Framework for RRI in ICT

11.3.1. Product: ICTs and Their Ethical Implications

11.3.2. People: Landscape of ICT Ethics

11.3.3. Process: Governance of RRI in ICT

11.4. Critical Reflections

11.4.1. The Meta-Responsibilities of RRI

11.4.2. Further Research

12. Deliberation and Responsible Innovation: a Geoengineering Case Study / Karen Parkhill / Nick Pidgeon / Adam Corner / Naomi Vaughan

12.1. Introduction

12.2. Public Perceptions of Geoengineering

12.3. Exploring Public Perceptions of Geoengineering: an Empirical Study

12.3.1. Context

12.3.2. Method: Deliberating SPICE

12.3.3. Analysis

12.4. Public Perceptions of Geoengineering through the Lens of Responsible Innovation

12.4.1. Intentions

12.4.2. Responsibility

12.4.3. Impacts

12.4.4. The Role of the Public

12.5. Conclusion: Geoengineering - Responsible Innovation?

13. Visions, Hype, and Expectations: a Place for Responsibility / Elena Simakova / Christopher Coenen

13.1. Introduction

13.2. The Repertoires of Nano Futures

13.3. Narratives of Responsibility

13.3.1. Narrative 1: Nanofutures, Boundary Work and Technology Assessment-Activities in the US and Germany

13.3.2. Narrative 2: Responsibility as Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the United States

13.4. Narratives, Visions and Conflicts: Lessons for RRI?

Endnotes: Building Capacity for Responsible Innovation / Jonny Hankins

Building Capacity for Responsible Innovation: Awareness and Engagement

Less Stick and More Carrot: Building Capacity through Education

Index