Responsible Research and Innovation From Concepts to Practices

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 9
Foreword: From responsible innovation to responsible innovation systems......Page 10
Note......Page 15
Introduction: RRI: A critical-constructive approach......Page 16
References......Page 20
Part I Ethical features of Responsible Research and Innovation......Page 24
Introduction......Page 26
Responsibility: The construction of a polysemic concept......Page 27
Capability, knowledge, will and action: A brief history 
of responsibility......Page 30
Time and responsibility......Page 38
Ethical responsibility......Page 40
Political responsibility......Page 41
Notes......Page 44
References......Page 45
Introduction and overview......Page 50
The EEE concept of responsibility......Page 51
Techno-visionary communication and epistemic constraints......Page 54
Orientation beyond consequentialism......Page 56
Concluding remarks: What follows for RRI?......Page 61
References......Page 62
Introduction......Page 65
RRI does not land in an empty space regarding responsibilities 
and norms......Page 66
“Ethics” in European ERs......Page 69
Comments on the RRI list of keys and relationships 
between them......Page 71
Moral responsibility: A conceptual constellation......Page 74
Moral innovation according to different combinations 
of responsibilities......Page 78
Conclusion: The most responsible sharing of responsibilities: 
ethics and subsidiarity......Page 81
Notes......Page 84
References......Page 86
Part II The political dimension of Responsible Research and Innovation......Page 90
Introduction......Page 92
pRRI: Where it comes from and what it is......Page 93
Tensions in pRRI......Page 95
pRRI’s counterpart: aRRI......Page 98
pRRI versus aRRI......Page 99
Releasing the tension......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 109
Notes......Page 110
References......Page 111
European strategy?......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 137
Notes......Page 139
References......Page 140
Introduction......Page 144
Changing expectations? New requirements for research......Page 145
Creating framework conditions – a reflection of new requirements 
in science policy......Page 152
Conclusions......Page 157
References......Page 159
Part III Avoiding the instrumentalization 
of Responsible Research and Innovation......Page 166
Introduction: Governing technologies under uncertainty conditions......Page 168
Soft regulation: General remarks and examples from 
nanotechnology......Page 169
Soft regulation and “New Governance”......Page 171
Responsible research and innovation as a new paradigm 
of responsibility?......Page 173
The novel features of RRI and existing responsibility models......Page 174
RRI and fundamental rights......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 181
References......Page 182
Introduction......Page 187
Conceptual analysis of responsible innovation......Page 189
The political dimension of RRI......Page 198
Responsible governance and co-regulation......Page 211
Notes......Page 214
References......Page 215
Introduction......Page 223
Sen’s implicit concept of contingency......Page 225
The duplicity of contingency......Page 228
An alternative concept of human agency?......Page 231
Conclusion......Page 234
Bibliography......Page 235
Part IV The innovative management of Responsible Research and Innovation......Page 238
Introduction......Page 240
The Circle: Its mission and its innovations......Page 242
Transparency as an outcome of responsible innovation......Page 244
Procedurally responsible innovation......Page 249
Conclusion......Page 255
 Notes......Page 256
References......Page 257
Introduction: Innovation, responsibility and care......Page 260
The need for responsibility of the innovator......Page 261
Emergence of the care beyond social sciences......Page 267
Characterization of the purpose of innovation-care......Page 269
Innovation-care and self-control......Page 274
Conclusion......Page 277
Notes......Page 278
References......Page 279
Introduction......Page 283
Some aspects of care ethics......Page 284
Care ethics and governance of RRI......Page 287
Attentiveness and the problem of the “need”......Page 290
Connectedness, dependence and the individual reasons 
for caring......Page 293
Conclusion......Page 296
Notes......Page 297
References......Page 298
Introduction......Page 301
Morally contentious technological innovations and implications......Page 302
Circular responsible innovation process model......Page 305
Welcome to the machine: Machine ethics and challenges......Page 306
A potential application of design thinking approach......Page 308
Conclusion......Page 311
References......Page 312
Conclusion......Page 316
Responsibility as the first step......Page 319
Innovative constructive proposals......Page 320
References......Page 321
Index......Page 322