Blok, Vincent and Von Schomberg, Lucien ORCID: 0000-0003-2299-8812 (2022) Introduction. In: Blok, Vincent, (ed.) Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET), 40 . Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 1-7. ISBN 978-3031147098 ; 978-3031147104 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14710-4_1)

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Abstract

After a period in which Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) stood as a cross-cutting issue under the Eigth European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (R & I), Horizon 2020, its further development and implementation has reached a crossroad. It turned out that there is a lack of consistent integration of RRI in Europe’s R & I practices (Novitzky et al. 2020), and dedicated funding for RRI is almost entirely absent in the Ninth European Union Framework Programme for R & I, Horizon Europe. At the same time, global challenges like climate change become increasingly more urgent and thus continue to call for collective efforts of scientific research and industry, policy makers and civil society. Further, the emergence of disruptive technologies like synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and robotics raises several new societal concerns. Finally, the growing disbelief in science, as shown during the Corona pandemic, demonstrates the importance of aligning R & I policy and societal values all the more. For reasons as these, the disinvestment in a dedicated Science With and For Society programme line for RRI in Horizon Europe did not result in decreased academic attention for embedding science in society. On the contrary, a dedicated research community emerged that engages in the academic discourse of RRI and tries to contribute to projects on topics such as responsible data governance, responsible AI, and responsible agroecology within the Horizon Europe framework programme, sometimes even without the use of the frame RRI.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	responsible innovation
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business Faculty of Business > Department of Systems Management & Strategy Faculty of Business > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC)
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2023 17:26
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/37793

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