#innovation and politics

VIRI, First Annual Meeting

July of this year saw the first annual meeting of the Virtual Institute for responsible Innovation (VIRI). To readers who might not know the institute – VIRI was created to accelerate the formation of a community of scholars and practitioners who, despite divides in geography and political culture, will create a common concept of responsible ... VIRI, First Annual Meeting

Redazione FGB

16/09
2015 3mn
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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 2, Issue 1 Reviewed

The current and first issue of the second volume of the Journal of Responsible Innovation opens with an editorial by Editor in Chief David Guston. Responsible innovation: who could be against that? opens with an interesting issue, with Guston arguing that although the goals of RI are easy to understand and accept, some members of ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 2, Issue 1 Reviewed

Jonathan Hankins

29/06
2015 10mn
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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. The protagonists of innovation, selected from within five “currents” – co-creation, sharing, inclusion, circularity and the ... Wave – How collective ingenuity is changing the world.

Piero Bassetti

27/05
2015 3mn
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2014, A Year in Responsible Innovation

2014 was a busy year for the Bassetti Foundation. In this post we describe some of the International conferences and projects that the Foundation participated in. American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting The American Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in Chicago from 13th to 17th February, and Ottavia ... 2014, A Year in Responsible Innovation

Redazione FGB

16/01
2015 5mn
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VIRI Announces New Partners

Last month the Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation announced that several new partners had been voted into the organization. The new partners bring in new geographical areas, most notably with the addition of South Korean and Japanese institutions. The new members are the following: ISIS, The Institute for Strategic Innovation and Services, led by its ... VIRI Announces New Partners

Redazione FGB

16/07
2014 3mn
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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. The EBEN annual conference brought ... The European Business Ethics Network Conference

Alessandro Blasimme
Virginia Sanchini

08/07
2014 2mn
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Responsible Innovation: Values and Valorisation Conference

On May 21 – 22, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) hosted the Third International Conference on Responsible Innovation in The Hague, The Netherlands. The conference brought together researchers from various academic disciplines, as well as representatives from both public and private sector to discuss the merits, practices and necessity of responsible innovation for ... Responsible Innovation: Values and Valorisation Conference

Jonathan Hankins

16/06
2014 4mn
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Il futuro è nel lavoro artigiano. I video e le fotografie.

Il 16 maggio 2014 all’Auditorium Testori nel Palazzo Lombardia di Milano si è svolto il convegno “Il futuro è nel lavoro artigiano”. L’obiettivo di questo momento di incontro è stato quello di stimolare il confronto sul tema dell’innovazione nell’ambito dell’artigianato, anche alla luce dei progressi tecnologici in atto, e affrontare le nuove prospettive che nascono ... Il futuro è nel lavoro artigiano. I video e le fotografie.

Redazione FGB

27/05
2014 3mn
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The Innovation Principle

Recently twelve of Europe’s largest corporations submitted a letter to the European Commission , urging them to adopt an “Innovation Principle” to be taken into full consideration during policy and legislative processes. The Innovation Principle is described as being simple, ‘whenever precautionary legislation is under consideration, the impact upon innovation should also be taken into ... The Innovation Principle

Redazione FGB

20/12
2013 2mn
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The Virtual Institute for Responsible innovation

The Bassetti Foundation is pleased to announce that last week the NSF announced a grant to establish a new Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI) at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU (CNS-ASU). Alongside the US National Academy of Engineering’s Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society and IEEE Spectrum Online, the Bassetti Foundation ... The Virtual Institute for Responsible innovation

Redazione FGB

23/09
2013 2mn
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