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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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
Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of Smart Specialization Strategies: TRANSFORM project
In TRANSFORM three European regions join forces and open up their R&I activities to co-create more responsible approaches to innovation: Lombardy, Brussels and Catalonia. TRANSFORM stands for Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of Smart Specialization Strategies, through new Forms of Open and Responsible Decision-Making and it is a EU Horizon 2020 project. - More
by Redazione FGB, 27 February 2020 Permalink
Read also: posts on SMART-map project
Categories Democracy and Participation, Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Open culture, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: other posts on the Handbook and Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
Categories Books, Innovation and Responsibility, Report, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: other posts on the Handbook and Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
Categories Books, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: other posts on the Handbook and Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
Categories Books, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and 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
Building a biotech cluster: a meeting with Eliot Forster
On the 22nd of November 2018, the Bassetti Foundation had the pleasure and honour of hosting the 'Building a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience' seminar, an audience with Eliot Forster. - More
by Anna Pellizzone, redazione FGB, 28 December 2018 Permalink
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Categories Conference, Lecture, Public Partecipation, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: Looking Back on 2016
Categories Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and Responsibility, Innovation and politics, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Video
Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics and Annual VIRI meeting
The Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies:Law, Policy and Ethics will be held at the new Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ between May 17-19, 2017, with Foundation Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins in attendance to report on proceedings. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 April 2017 Permalink
Read also: other posts on VIRI
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Law, New Technologies, Policy, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science, Roboethics
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
Fourth NWO Responsible Innovation Conference
On 24 - 25 August 2015 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) hosted the Fourth International Conference on Responsible Innovation in The Hague, the Netherlands. Read the report from the event. - More
by Redazione FGB, 4 September 2015 Permalink
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
The RRI Tools Hubs Meeting
The RRI Tools Hubs Meeting brings to Lisbon around 60 researchers, science communicators, educators and policy makers, from 30 countries, to debate and present concrete examples of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in action. - More
by Redazione FGB, 22 April 2015 Permalink
Read also: RRI Tools is on: jump on board!
Bassetti Foundation at the Responsible Innovation 2014 Conference
The conference runs through the 21st and 22nd of May and is titled 'Responsible Innovation: Values and Valorisation', and will be one of the largest conferences on responsible innovation this year. - More
by Redazione FGB, 30 April 2014 Permalink
Categories Governance, Innovation and Responsibility, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Read also: Interview with Bruno Latour and Bruno Latour in Milan (2003)
Innovating with Beauty. Preliminary program.
In San Francisco and the Bay Area for the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Giannino Bassetti Foundation presents the culture, beauty and innovation of 'Made in Italy' design: exhibitions, debate and comparison between the cutting edge models of Italian production and the technology of Silicon Valley, towards a new economy of beauty. - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 June 2013 Permalink
Read also: Full program
A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation
As a follow up to my post regarding René Von Schomberg's Matrix for Responsible Innovation I would like to point readers towards a freely downloadable document entitled 'A Report On Responsible Research and Innovation'. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 26 February 2013 Permalink
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, Report, Responsibility and Politics, Responsibility and Science
Layers of Uncertainty
A report from the third Science Technology Policy Crossroads symposium at the Harvard University Science Centre. The symposium was entitled 'Layers of Uncertainty: Conversations on the role of uncertainty in science and technology policy'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 8 March 2012 Permalink
Read also: La società del rischio by Giuseppe O. Longo
Categories Conference, Responsibility and Politics
Ethics, Human Enhancement and Genetics. Report and Video
by Virginia Sanchini. The aim of the workshop was to investigate how the latest progress in biotechnologies impacts our understanding of the traditional matters of moral and political philosophy. Report, Video and Photos. - More
by Virginia Sanchini, 9 December 2011 Permalink
Categories Philosophy, Responsibility and Politics
Different forms of expertise
On Monday 3rd of May a seminar was held in The Bassetti Foundation conference suite with Dr Wiebe E. Bijker, Professor of Technology and Society at The University of Maastricht in Holland. we now make the video and audio recordings of the seminar available in English. - More
by Redazione FGB, 12 May 2010 Permalink
Read also: Il ruolo degli esperti nella democrazia by Margherita Fronte
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
Satellite traffic problems
On February 10th there was a traffic accident of a new type. Two satellites were involved, one an American "Iridium" communications satellite and the other an abandoned Russian "Cosmos" military satellite. The American satellite was still in use but the Russian machine had been out of service since 1995 and was no longer actively controlled. It had been launched on 16th June 1993 and was in service for 2 years. The crash took place 491miles above Siberia in one of the most popular orbits for these types of vehicle (military, weather and communications). - More
by Redazione FGB, 24 February 2009 Permalink