Abstract
The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross-cutting theme for the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. RRI may be understood as a process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new concept. Mapping of RRI dimensions and its theoretical assumptions is performed. Bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on RRI is carried out. The analysis of RRI-related projects is conducted. The attempt is made to clarify what RRI means for an enterprise in practical terms and what makes an innovation project in an enterprise a responsible one. Finally, a proposal for a closer interchange between RRI and Technology Assessment discourses is made together with an argument for a more extensive use of future-oriented methods that increase epistemic horizons of an innovating organisation.
Highlights
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a term that describes research and innovation (R&I) activity that is ethically acceptable and socially desirable
The idea that technology is not value-neutral and that R&I should be aligned with societal values, needs and concerns is decades old but the very term RRI has its origin only in 2009 when it appeared in the work by Robinson (2009) in the context of nanotechnology development
Following the line of thought of Ceicyte and Petraite (2018) it is argued in this paper that decomposing RRI into Responsible Research and Responsible Innovation may bring more clarity to the reflection on responsibility in R&I
Summary
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a term that describes research and innovation (R&I) activity that is ethically acceptable and socially desirable. Von Schomberg (2012) proposes that RRI is understood as a transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products (in order to allow a proper embedding of scientific and technological advances in our society). Bibliometric analysis, mind mapping and logical construction methods to achieve the above stated goals
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