Abstract
Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a mode of research, development and innovation (RDI) governance which has proliferated primarily in European states with a tradition and/or culture of participatory and deliberative technology governance. It assumes the existence of open, transparent and accessible policy-making processes, and a culture of responsibility and accountability in government and in the private domain. In Hungary, where RDI is supposed to be the key to economic competitiveness, RRI has never taken root. Examining the regulation of the Hungarian RDI system, it becomes clear that there is a significant degree of institutional incompatibility with the solutions promoted by RRI. More significantly, the contemporary system of government and administration and the prevailing model of policy-making and governance prevent or exclude deliberately the implementation of RRI.
Highlights
Responsible research and innovation has become a central concept in Europe in the governance and regulation of research, development and innovation systems and RDI activities. 62 |Márton Varju, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in HungaryIt is based on the ideas of transparency, participation, deliberation and engagement in the operation of RDI systems and their institutions, which have been applied as normative requirements and/or expectations in certain states concerning the conduct of government, business, scientific and societal actors in RDI
For instance where consensus-building on significant societal issues is deliberately suppressed in politics, where efficiency and efficacy are paramount interests in governance and regulation, and where the perceived economic benefits of human and corporate activities have pre-eminence over potential societal, moral and other concerns, the institutional adaptation required by RRI may only be sporadic, or may be missing completely
We conclude by highlighting the many obstacles which may be responsible for deferring the implementation of RRI in Hungary
Summary
Responsible research and innovation (hereinafter: RRI) has become a central concept in Europe in the governance and regulation of research, development and innovation (hereinafter: RDI) systems and RDI activities. RRI may have the practical consequence of separating an area of administration and governance, and with that an area of economic and industrial production, from the prevailing power and interest structures in the given polity.[15] It enables control over technologies and over the technological future by actors and by value-based and other considerations, which would normally be excluded from the political or the policy-making process Based on these characteristics, the institutional adaptation which may be necessary for the implementation of RRI may face considerable obstacles in particular systems of governance and administration, or may be deliberately resisted by national politics. They reveal an orientation or approach in national RDI systems which could be indicative as to what may be missing from other, more hierarchical, less transparent, and less open and accessible national RDI frameworks
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