Abstract
In European science and technology policy, various styles have been developed and institutionalised to govern the ethical challenges of science and technology innovations. In this paper, we give an account of the most dominant styles of the past 30 years, particularly in Europe, seeking to show their specific merits and problems. We focus on three styles of governance: a technocratic style, an applied ethics style, and a public participation style. We discuss their merits and deficits, and use this analysis to assess the potential of the recently established governance approach of ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ (RRI). Based on this analysis, we reflect on the current shaping of RRI in terms of ‘doing governance’.
Highlights
Under the influence of scientific positivism, the latter part of the 19th century and the first part of the twentieth century were dominated by the societal belief that ‘science and technology development’ was rather synonymous with ‘social progress’
The 1947 Nuremberg Code, drafted as a response to the medical experiments performed under national-socialism, can be seen as a first international policy attempt to define moral criteria for scientific conduct (Annas & Grodin 1992)
It was further developed in the Helsinki Declaration (2012) and its subsequent revisions, again in relation to medical research with human participants
Summary
Under the influence of scientific positivism, the latter part of the 19th century and the first part of the twentieth century were dominated by the societal belief that ‘science and technology development’ was rather synonymous with ‘social progress’. Using the examples of the U.S, Britain, and Germany, she shows how different political traditions in different countries employ different forms of public reasoning on science and technology and hold different attitudes to the ethical, legal and social issues connected to biotechnology and how they hold different views on public participation (Jasanoff 2005).
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