The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age.
Jonathan Hankins reviews The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age, the latest book from Gabriele Giacomini. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 1 September 2022 Permalink
See also: Liberal Innovation In ICT and le interviste di Giacomini
Categories Democracy and Participation, Food and Feed, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and politics, Lecture, Politics, Sustainability
TRANSFORM at the 19th European Week of Regions and Cities. A Review.
The European Week of Regions and Cities is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy. 2021 saw representatives of the Bassetti Foundation participate, as Angela Simone and the TRANSFORM team held a participatory lab in which they presented their project. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 15 November 2021 Permalink
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics, Sustainability
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Read also: posts by Piero Bassetti
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Politics, Publications
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Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Policy, Responsibility and Politics
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Policy, Politics, Responsibility and Politics
Five Open Questions about the Post Covid 19 World.
For the first time, humanity in its entirety is having to face glocal problems: a pandemic virus, the ecological survival of the planet, life with artificial intelligence, how to deal with the infinite space of the big bang. Five questions asked by Piero Bassetti. - More
by Piero Bassetti, 20 March 2020 Permalink
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Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Philosophy, Politics, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Risk
ON POLICY CHOICES BY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE 2020 COVID-19 OUTBREAK.
On March 11th, 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO) has characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic. In its statement regarding this assessment, WHO has also clearly expressed its position regarding the fact that this is likely the very first pandemic that can be potentially controlled and, notwithstanding this, a number of countries in the World do not seem to be taking significant action. - More
by Maurizio Bettiga, 15 March 2020 Permalink
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science, Risk
Read also: page Who we are and History of the site. See summary, videos and photos of the dialogue with René Von Schomberg and Joanthan Hankins.
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics
Read also: all reviews of Journal for Responsible in Innovation and some posts on The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation.
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Practice, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Forum on Research and Innovation: first face to face meeting in Milan.
Among the approaches gaining momentum for restoring the public's trust in institutions and experts is the development of a responsible and ethical approach to scientific research and innovation. The Lombardy Region is leading the way in this course with its first Forum on Research and Innovation. - More
by Redazione FGB, 27 June 2019 Permalink
Read also: other posts on Foro Regionale
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Politics, Responsibility and Science
The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation
The Bassetti Foundation is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of the International Handbook on Responsible Innovation - A Global Resource, edited by René von Schomberg and our own Jonathan Hankins. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 30 April 2019 Permalink
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
See also: Looking Back on 20**.
Categories Democracy and Participation, Design, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Open culture, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Site, This web site, biotechnology
Glocalism. Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, review of the journal.
The latest edition of the journal Glocalism has just been released. The issue is titled Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, an argument that as readers will know very much reflects the Foundation's standpoint. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 14 March 2018 Permalink
Read also: Looking Back on 2016
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Video
The Regional Forum for Research and Innovation
In their sitting of 28 December, the Lombard Regional Government nominated ten international experts in the relationship between technoscience and society. The experts will make up the Regional Forum for Research and Innovation, recently created under the 29/2016 law following a call that received 150 candidates from across the globe and closed in September. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 December 2017 Permalink
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Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Politics, Responsibility and Science
Trust in expert knowledge in medicine and Technoscience. A meeting with Silvia Camporesi
We addressed these issues with Silvia Camporesi who from the starting point of the publication of extracts from the Investigating Trust in Expert Knowledge International Conference published in a special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, held a symposium at the Bassetti Foundation on 27 February 2017. We share videos, photos, slides and other material. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 March 2017 Permalink
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Read also: the presentation of the meeting and Game-changing innovations and responsibility. A dialogue with David Guston.
Categories Bioethics, Ethics, Innovation and politics, Lecture, Politics, Responsibility and Science
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Report, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Turning the tide or surfing the wave?
We publish an excerpt from the paper by Simone Amaldi and Guido Gorgoni in which they explore the political and economic context in which the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation has gained attention and taken shape. - More
by Guido Gorgoni, Simone Arnaldi, 7 December 2016 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts.
The Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts International Conference took place between March 11th and 12th. In this post Jonathan Hankins offer some reflections on the many issues addressed and questions raised over the three day events. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 6 April 2016 Permalink
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Report, Responsibility and Science
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
VIRI, First Annual Meeting
July of this year saw the first annual meeting of the Virtual Institute for responsible Innovation (VIRI). The meeting was held in Sussex, UK, between 14th to 16th July, and as a founding institutional member of VIRI the Bassetti Foundation was present. - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 September 2015 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science, Sustainability
Wave - How collective ingenuity is changing the world.
After Paris, Marseille and Lille, 'Wave - How collective ingenuity is changing the world', a project of the BNP Paribas group, comes to Milan. The Italian event is directed by Trivioquadrivio with the collaboration of the Giannino Bassetti Foundation. - More
by Piero Bassetti, 27 May 2015 Permalink
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Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Open culture, Sustainability
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Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Science
The European Business Ethics Network Conference
The German Network for Business Ethics (DNWE) recently organized the annual conference for its European Organisation: The European Business Ethics Network - EBEN. The conference took place in Berlin from the 12th to the 14th of June 2014, and was located in the ESTM European School of Management and Technology. - More
by Alessandro Blasimme, Virginia Sanchini, 8 July 2014 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics
Read also: Risk and Responsibility in Innovation.
Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation and other posts on VIRI
Developing a Framework for Responsible Innovation
Last month Jack Stilgoe, Richard Owen and Phil Macnaghten published an open access article in the Research Policy journal that is available through the Science Direct website entitled 'Developing a Framework for Responsible Innovation'. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 26 July 2013 Permalink
Read also: Preventative governance
Categories Innovation and politics, Roboethics
The potential role of science communication in Pakistan
Public communication of science and technology is generating knowledge and a rapid awareness in a variety of areas including rural, agro-based and related disciplines. Quick scientific and technical packages are developed for dissemination to the pertinent clients mostly located in countryside areas. - More
by Saima Siddiqui, 5 June 2012 Permalink
Read also: A Conversation with Pallavi Phartiyal - part 1 or read in Issuu
Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics
Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics
Read also: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois
Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews
Read also: Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility by Jeff Ubois
Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews
Preventative governance
On Wednesday 7th July, Professor David Guston of the Arizona State University presented the work of the CSPO (Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes) and the CSN-ASU (Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University) at an invitation seminar held here at the Bassetti Foundation... - More
by Redazione FGB, 16 July 2010 Permalink
Read also: The Rightful Place Of Science Conference, Regulating nanotechnology through private actors? by B. Laurent and Responsibility in Innovation interview with L. Gasman

A short review: Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility
Last week we put online a new publication of the Foundation Bassetti entitled "Conversations On Innovation, Power And Responsibility", written by Jeff Ubois and available in hard copy, downloadable pdf or Issuu (on line) versions. It is a resume' of conversations conducted between Mr Ubois and 12 internationally renowned innovators and thinkers - More
by Redazione FGB, 8 January 2010 Permalink
See also: Jeff Ubois' blog and other FGB publications

Categories Innovation and politics, Interviews, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Proceedings of The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility' conference
In this the first of two postings reporting the proceedings of the conference entitled 'The Network Society, Business, Innovation and Responsibility', Jonathan Hankins provides a summary of the speakers' presentations. - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 November 2009 Permalink
Read also: Innovazione e creatività
Bio-orthopaedics between innovation and health policies
An interview with Alberto Gobbi. Maria Cristina Paganoni proposes an interview about the current cutting-edge research on regeneration therapies in cartilage damage, the relevant opportunities for a strategic rethinking on health policy in this area, and its impact on the social and collective thinking about issues of health and self care. - More
by Redazione FGB, 29 July 2009 Permalink
See also: Daniel Callahan in FGB
Categories Innovation and politics
The Politics of Science and the re-definition of democracy (part 2)
The fourth Lecture of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti will feature prof. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, one of the authors of the report to the EU "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously". Mariachiara Tallacchini offers here an introduction to Jasanoff's STS approach. (Part 2) - More
by Mariachiara Tallacchini, 28 April 2008 Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
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Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics, Lecture, Responsibility and Science
The Politics of Science and the re-definition of democracy (part 1)
The fourth Lecture of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti will feature prof. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, one of the authors of the report to the EU "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously". Mariachiara Tallacchini offers here an introduction to Jasanoff's STS approach. - More
by Mariachiara Tallacchini, 21 April 2008 Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
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Political responsibility in innovation: a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy
Political responsibility in innovation is a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy. The debate on this issue that the Giannino Bassetti Foundation has been promoting for some time now has led to important political developments: the issue of deliberative democracy lies at the heart of political interest today... - More
by Redazione FGB, 31 July 2007 Permalink
See also: Innovazione tecnico scientifica e democrazia e Partecipazione Pubblica e Governance dell'Innovazione
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Categories Democracy and Participation, Innovation and politics