Toward Responsible innovation. Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future

In this post I would like to offer some personal thoughts and interpretation on the latest book from Xavier Pavie, Toward Responsible innovation. Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future. Xavier Pavie In the biography that precedes the first chapter, Pavie describes his research activities as addressing the notion of responsible innovation through philosophy ... Toward Responsible innovation. Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future

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Book Review: Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation. Organisational and National Conditions.

Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation Organisational and National Conditions is a Springer Brief in Ethics written by Christian Wittrock, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Auke Pols, Philip Macnaghten and David Ludwig, several of whom will be familiar names to Bassetti Foundation followers. The book is an analysis of data collected in the EU Horizon 2020 RRI-Practice study and ... Book Review: Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation. Organisational and National Conditions.

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Responsibility-by-design – Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly

On 26 October 2021 the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) published the CWA 17796 Responsibility-by-design – Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly. CEN is an association that brings together the National Standardization Bodies of 34 European countries, providing a platform for the development of European Standards and other technical documents in relation ... Responsibility-by-design – Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly

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MARIE Webinar Week: A Review

After more than 4 years in operation, between 7-9 September 2021 the MARIE Interreg project hosted 3 days of seminars, with networking slots and video drops and some light-hearted fun. Day 1 The topic for the first day was Responsibility and sustainable strategies: Moving Towards S4+. After taking a voluntary quiz and language lesson about ... MARIE Webinar Week: A Review

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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 8, Issue 1 reviewed

The first issue of Volume 8 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation was released in May of 2021, an important milestone for the Journal as it was the first to be open access from its day of publication. In this post we offer an overview of this groundbreaking issue. The volume opens with Erik Fisher’s ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 8, Issue 1 reviewed

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MARIE Webinar week – 7-9 September 2021

Interreg Europe MARIE is the first interregional project to focus on responsible innovation in public policies. On 7th, 8th and 9th September 2021, MARIE Webinar Week will take place broadcasting a series of short events with updates on the project’s achievements. During the last four and a half years, MARIE partners worked together on understanding ... MARIE Webinar week – 7-9 September 2021

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Two Recent Academic Publications from Bassetti Foundation Collaborators

As regular readers will know, the Bassetti Foundation holds a prominent position at the meeting point of policy focused and academic focused debate around Responsible Innovation, contemporarily holding a seat on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Responsible Innovation (JRI) and coordinating both the Lombardy Regional Forum for Research and Innovation and the TRANSFORM ... Two Recent Academic Publications from Bassetti Foundation Collaborators

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Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) announces several positions.

The professorship of Innovation, Society & Public Policy (Prof. Sebastian Pfotenhauer), based at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University of Munich, announces a new research group that will investigate future mobility at the intersection of societal needs, urban technopolitics, and spatial (re)configurations. The group will consist of up to three postdocs ... Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) announces several positions.

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Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. JRI Special Issue part 2.

In this post we take a look at the second recent Open Access Special Issue offered by the Journal of Responsible Innovation: Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. In their introduction and overview of the various contributions to this Special Issue, Editors Martin Sand and Samantha Copeland describe the ... Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. JRI Special Issue part 2.

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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Special Issue on Public engagement in contested political contexts

As regular readers will know, 2021 brought great changes to the Journal of Responsible Innovation as it took on Open Access status. Alongside a celebratory ‘bumper issue’ (reviewed here), two supplement Special Issues were released. In this post we offer an overview of the first with a review of the second to follow. As Shannon ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Special Issue on Public engagement in contested political contexts

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Bernd Carsten Stahl launches his new Open Access book, 28 April 2021.

In his new book Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future, An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies, Bernd Carsten Stahl raises the question of how we can we harness the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), while addressing potential ethical and human rights risks. The author (whom regular readers will know) ... Bernd Carsten Stahl launches his new Open Access book, 28 April 2021.

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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 7, Issue 3 reviewed – Part 2

(This is the second part of the review of vol 7, issue 3. Here the first.) This mammoth issue of the Journal continues with Civic ethics as a normative framework for responsible research and innovation by Félix Lozano and Irene Monsonís-Payá. In this article the authors explore the potential of discursive ethics proposed by Habermas ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 7, Issue 3 reviewed – Part 2

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