Responsible innovation for decent nonliberal peoples: a dilemma?

The Innovation Cycle Dilemma

Modern in-car infotainment and navigation systems will incorporate features from the automotive electronics as well as from the consumer electronics. These domains have very different innovation cycles, with effects on the hardware and software development process. The “Innovation Cycle Dilemma” refers to the difficulty in integrating both domains. This paper describes a platform that proved to...

Options for Strengthening Responsible Research and Innovation

Responsible Research and Innovation has been authored by an interdisciplinary group with experts from science, innovation, economics, law, governance and ethics’. It was prepared as an intermediate step in the reflection on future policy initiatives regarding Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). Currently, various policy discussions are taking place regarding RRI, both inside and outside ...

Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change From Victims to Change Agents through Decent Work

Towards a phronetic space for responsible research (and innovation)

The term Responsible Research and Innovation has recently gained currency, as it has been designated to be a key-term in the European research framework Horizon 2020. At the level of European research policy, Responsible Research and Innovation can be viewed as an attempt to reach a broader vision of research and innovation as a public good. The current academic debate may be fairly enriched by...

Responsible research and innovation: A manifesto for empirical ethics?

In 2013 the Nuffield Council on Bioethics launched their report Novel Neurotechnologies: Intervening in the Brain. The report, which adopts the European Commission's notion of Responsible Research and Innovation, puts forward a set of priorities to guide ethical research into, and the development of, new therapeutic neurotechnologies. In this paper, we critically engage with these priorities. W...