Game-changing innovations and responsibility. A dialogue with David Guston.

On November, 14th, The Fondazione Bassetti had the honor to host Professor David Guston, Founding Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Innovation in Society Arizona State University. Professor Guston spoke on Synbio and he held a lecture titled “From Frankenstein to ... Game-changing innovations and responsibility. A dialogue with David Guston.

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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. Readers may recall the conference from last year, when Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins presented during the poster session. This year’s conference aimed to discuss the merits, practices and necessity ... Fourth NWO Responsible Innovation Conference

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Biolavoro Globale – presentazione

Che cosa vuol dire “donare” un ovocita? Che tipo di lavoro è sperimentare dei farmaci? Che immaginario costruiscono queste pratiche? Ma soprattutto, che forme di consapevolezza possiamo mettere in atto? Queste le domande che saranno poste alla presentazione del libro di Melinda Cooper e Catherine Waldby, “Biolavoro Globale. Corpi e nuova manodopera“ DerivApprodi Editore, 2015, ... Biolavoro Globale – presentazione

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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. The event is organized by the RRI Tools project, a consortium of 26 institutions that brings together considerable experience in the ... The RRI Tools Hubs Meeting

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RRI Tools is on: jump on board!

The RRI Tools Newsletter is out: jump on board! From the RRI Tools site: EN “RRI Tools: building a better relationship between science and society. Europe wants to promote not only excellent but also socially desirable science and technology: it is vital to align the objectives of research and innovation processes with the needs and ... RRI Tools is on: jump on board!

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Collective Food Purchasing Networks in Italy as a Case Study of Responsible Innovation

“Glocalism” is a peer-reviewed, open access and cross-disciplinary journal that aims at stimulating increasing awareness and knowledge around the new dynamics that characterise the glocal reality“. The current issue of Glocalism is entitled “Feeding the Planet. Energy For life“, and contains articles by (amongst others) former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, and Mayor of Milan ... Collective Food Purchasing Networks in Italy as a Case Study of Responsible Innovation

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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Issue 2, a Review

The second issue of the Journal of Responsible innovation opens with an Editorial written by Editor in Chief David Guston. In “Responsible innovation: a going concern” (available on open access), Guston describes how RI “continues to be a timely and important topic at the interface of scholarship and practice”. He cites the US Presidential Commission ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Issue 2, a Review

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FaRiNN International Conference: Responsible Innovation, The Southern European Way

This week the “Responsible Innovation: The Southern European Way” International Conference takes place in Mitilene (Lesbo, Grecia). Taking place on 10 September, this final conference is part of the project FaRInn – Facilitating Responsible Innovation in SEE Countries, which is co-funded by the South East Europe Programme for territorial cooperation. The project unites 8 partners ... FaRiNN International Conference: Responsible Innovation, The Southern European Way

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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

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David Guston on Innovation Excellence

Late last month the Bassetti Foundation’s Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins asked David Guston a few questions about his aims and objectives for the journal of Responsible Innovation, and posted the resulting interview on the Innovation Excellence website. The interview is a follow up to another conducted in October of last year with Erik Fisher, Co-Director ... David Guston on Innovation Excellence

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