Concept Of Responsible Innovation Research Articles

To What Extent Can Digital Health Technologies Comply With the Principles of Responsible Innovation? Practice-and Policy-Oriented Research Insights Regarding an Organisational and Systemic Issue

Background: Digital health technologies (DHTs) have expanded exponentially since the COVID-19 crisis and have prompted questions about their impact across all levels of health systems. Because health organisations and systems play a central role in the success or failure of the transition to more equitable and sustainable societies, the concept of Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH), focused on aligning the processes and outcomes of innovation with societal values, is gaining interest in research, policy, and practice. This study aims to explore enablers and constraints to the development, procurement and/or utilisation of responsible DHTs in health organisations. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 stakeholders concerned with the development, procurement, and/or utilisation of DHTs in a large Canadian academic health centre. Data were thematically analysed through a mixed deductive-inductive process using the RIH framework. Results: Our findings highlight that the consideration of RIH principles in the development, procurement, and/or utilisation of DHTs depends mainly on organisational and systemic factors and conditions, namely: (1) the presence of an organisational culture that promotes RIH in its innovation-related practices and processes; (2) availability of material and financial resources as well as expertise in certain fields (eg, environmental sustainability); (3) the evolution of health technology assessment (HTA) practices to include other dimensions beyond effectiveness, safety, and costs; (4) the scope of the regulatory and legal frameworks that govern the approval and use of DHTs; and (5) the role of the market (eg, venture capital) in the design of federal and provincial innovation policies. Conclusion: This study provides insights on practice, policy, and political issues that health organisations may face in the development, procurement, and/or utilisation of responsible DHTs. It can help scholars, practitioners, decision-makers, and industry to create the conditions for a better integration of RIH principles into health organisations and systems.

Responsible Innovation in the Development of Local Food Products by the Desa Prima Group in Sambirejo Gunungkidul

The number of competitors in the similar processed food business makes the business actors retain consumers and expand the sales scale. They should create new products through responsible innovation concept so that the product is carried out in a sustainable manner for social, economic, and environmental benefits. Therefore, this study aimed at: (1) analysing the preference of Desa Prima in adopting the food innovation and (2) analysing behaviour in the responsible innovation development. This was a mixed method research conducted in the Sambirejo, Ngawen, Gunungkidul and it employed six actors of Desa Prima. Primary data was collected through observation, in-depth interviews, and questionnaires. The data were analysed descriptively and the Cochran test was carried out to find out the preference in behaviour. The results showed that there was no difference in the frequency of planning activities, especially for consulting with families, considering pros and cons, and making product samples beforehand, although not all managers checked the taste quality. However, Desa Prima had not maximized the management of recipes and other activities in the form of SOPs. Regarding environmental sustainability, the processing of organic waste had not been maximized even though they showed the motivation to implement a zero-waste system.

Technological Stewardship and Responsible Innovation: A Mindset, an Ethos, and an Interdisciplinary Undertaking

In the foreword to Responsible Innovation: Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society, the concept of responsible innovation is pitched as a necessary counterpoint to “innovation’s systemic irresponsibility,” an undertaking that aims to “nudge [technologies’] trajectories in various ways toward responsible, desirable futures” <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[1, p. xii]</xref> . Within the leading journal <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Responsible Innovation</i> , the concept is often treated as synonymous with responsible research and innovation (RRI); indeed, the European Commission suggests an overlapping set of aims in its description of RRI as a “comprehensive approach” to developing research methods and new technologies, one that:

Responsible Innovation (RI) in the midst of an innovation crisis

The concept of Responsible Innovation (RI) occupies a central place in the discourse on science and technology, especially in the context of the European Union (EU) but also within academia. This concept is guided by the idea of steering science and technology towards societally desirable outcomes, particularly in response to normative objectives such as Sustainable Development Goals. Visions of RI typically propose that to innovate responsibly requires a permanent commitment to be anticipatory, reflective, inclusively deliberative, and responsive. They also emphasize the need for open access, gender equality, science education, ethical standard in conducting experiments, and democratic governance.However, the societal purpose of RI fundamentally conflicts with the imperative of maximizing economic growth inherent in today’s innovation climate. This conflict points to a crisis in which innovation struggles to serve public interests insofar private interests continue to be prioritized. The magnitude of this crisis is also reflected within the RI literature itself, where the political ambition to exceed the privatization wave is summoned to a techno-economic concept of innovation. This issue of NOvation – Critical Studies of Innovation brings into question to what extent innovation necessarily relates to the market, whether it is possible to develop an alternative concept of innovation that is separated from economic ends, and how we can conceptualize, for example, a political understanding of innovation. What really is innovation? While all seven contributions share the aspiration to critically reflect on these questions, they each offer a distinct and original perspective in discussing the relation between innovation, technology, politics, economics, and responsibility.

The concept of responsible innovation in the context of European integration

The concept of responsible innovation in the context of European integration

Enhancing Inclusion within Responsible Innovation Process through Serious Gaming

This paper presents a theoretical consideration of the use of serious games to enhance inclusiveness in the process of creating so-called responsible innovation. The literature regarding the impact of serious games on inclusion with its possible implications for a responsible innovation process is explored. The article sheds light on the concept of serious gaming, including its aims, core elements and the learning process. It tackles inclusion within different contexts and its origins, linking it to gaming. The responsible innovation concept is explained from this perspective, with attention paid to inclusion. Next, a systematic literature review is presented, focusing on recent sources fromthe JSTOR database. It is followed by selected cases of games enhancing inclusion. The article summarizes the outcomes of the review and compares them with the theoretical assumptions. In the conclusion, the topic of using serious games as a promising method to improve the level of inclusiveness in the process of creating responsible innovations is addressed. It was also noted that, from the point of view of the creators of responsible innovations, particularly interesting areas are studies devoted to urban and environmentalissues, as well as articles on natural sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Aligning Innovation and Ethics: an Approach to Responsible Innovation Based on Preference Learning

New technologies not only contribute greatly to society and the economy; they also involve fundamental societal shifts, challenging our values and ideas about ourselves and the world. With a view to aligning technological change and innovation with ethical values, the concept of responsible innovation advocates the inclusion of a variety of stakeholders, in particular from society. In shifting moral responsibility towards the producers of innovations, responsible innovation rejects the standard normative economic view that the ethical evaluation of innovations is a matter of individual consumers’ market-based choices. However, in this article we argue that responsible innovation should not abandon all normative consideration of the individual outright, to which end we present an alternative normative economic approach based on preference learning. We show how this approach can provide an enhanced understanding of responsible innovation by clarifying the redistribution of moral responsibility and casting individuals in the normative role of co-innovators, rather than mere consumers. We argue that responsible innovation should enable individuals to form preferences and evaluate innovations, so as to align innovation with ethical demands. Finally, we show how our proposed approach can be put into practice in so-called laboratories in real-world contexts, using methods from the field of design. In short, drawing on normative economics, this article aims to establish a new understanding of responsible innovation that is conceptually sound and can form the basis for novel innovation practices.

An Investigation on Responsible Innovation in the Emerging Shared Bicycle Industry: Case Study of a Chinese Firm

In the current era of Industrial 4.0, open innovation, and the sharing economy, innovation ecosystems are formed through government-industry-university (triple helix) interaction. The concept of responsible innovation has emerged to explore how innovation can be conducted in a transparent, trustworthy, and sustainable way so as to respond to the public interest. While current literature provides a conceptual framework, details of how responsible innovation can be formed, developed, and sustained in the sharing economy, in particular in developing countries, have been under-explored. This paper aims to explore factors of responsible innovation, linking dimensions with business practice, and identify the dynamic stages of the industry life cycle. Through an in-depth case study of China’s shared bicycle industry and the firm Hellobike, this paper has prioritized factors which lead to responsibility, such as user safety and friendliness in product design, real-time operations combined with big data, collaboration between industry and local government for industry standardization, and user credit systems. It has enriched key dimensions based on literature and case studies and proposed dynamic interaction models for industry, government, users, and universities at different stages of responsible innovation in the shared bicycle sector. From this empirical study, future research areas have been identified.

Agriculture 4.0: Broadening Responsible Innovation in an Era of Smart Farming

Agriculture is undergoing a technology revolution supported by policy-makers around the world. While smart technologies will play an important role in achieving enhanced productivity and greater eco-efficiency, critics have suggested that a consideration of social impacts is being side-lined. Research illustrates that some agricultural practitioners are concerned about using certain technologies. Indeed, some studies argue that agricultural societies may be changed, or ‘re-scripted’, in undesirable ways, and there is precedent to suggest that wider society may be concerned about radical new technologies. We therefore encourage policy-makers, funders, technology companies, and researchers to consider the views of both farming communities and wider society. In agriculture, the concept of responsible innovation has not been widely considered, although two recent papers have made useful suggestions. We build on these interventions by arguing that key dimensions of responsible innovation - anticipation, inclusion, reflexivity, and responsiveness - should be applied to this fourth agricultural revolution. We argue, however, that ideas in responsible innovation should be further developed in order to make them relevant and robust for emergent agri-tech, and further that frameworks should be tested in practice to see if they can actively shape innovation trajectories. In making suggestions on how to construct a more comprehensive framework for responsible innovation in agriculture, we call for: (i) a more systemic approach that maps and attends to the wider ecology of innovations associated with this fourth agricultural revolution; (ii) a broadening of notions of ‘inclusion’ in responsible innovation to account better for diverse and already existing spaces...

Self-Organisation Perspective to Responsible Innovation in Industry

Abstract Based on scientific literature analysis, the article examines the complex nature of the responsible innovation concept and provides the conceptual integration of a self-organisation perspective into the concept of responsible innovation within industry. Self-organisation characteristics are presented and argued as useful constructs for a better understanding of responsible innovation processes.

The Concept of Responsible Innovation

The importance of responsible innovation in organization’s innovative activity is well recognized and has inspired a wealth of research in finding the dimensions of responsible innovations. The unpredictable consequences of the innovations are clearly understood, but at the current situation exists the focus to analyze the social, economical, ecological and ethical results after the launch of the innovation. Theoretical analysis of responsible innovation concept reveals few observations. First, responsible innovation concept is grounded by four main approaches: business insight, organizational cultural profile, involvement of stakeholders, and structural stage-gate process. Second, the conception of responsible innovation is the balanced entirety of the innovative activity development, when decisions are based on the stage-gate principle, involvement of stakeholders, and assessment through the organizational ethical-cultural profile in order to evaluate social, ecological, economical and ethical responsibilities for the society and environment. Third, the concept of responsible innovation is grounded by the open innovation model, which integrates the principles of stagegate, social and inclusive innovations. Fourth, the multidisciplinary concept of responsible innovation requires analyzing social, economical, ecological and ethical parameters that can be assured by using the principles of anticipation, inclusion and reflection.