Addressing Climate Change in Responsible Research and Innovation: Recommendations for Its Operationalization

Ligardo-Herrera, Ivan; Gómez‐Navarro, Tomás; Iñigo, Edurne A.; Blok, Vincent

doi:10.3390/su10062012

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“…On the contrary, empirical evidence is still scarce [18]. Following Owen et al [7] seminal article on RRI governance, several studies seek to understand the capacities for inclusion [36], the management practices [18], the stakeholders [13,16,37,38] and the difficulties and critical points in the inclusion process e.g., [18,20,38].…”

Section: Responsible Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While innovation management literature emphasizes user and customer inclusion, RRI literature advocates for broader inclusion of both economic and non-economic stakeholders. One persistent debate concerns appropriate inclusion [20], difficulties concerning conflicts of interest [67], fear of loss of power over the process [14], and fear about the relationship between secrecy and transparency [68], as well as operational aspects such as the consumption of time and other resources [37]. Accordingly, we present the fourth and last question: who are the stakeholders who should participate in the RRI process?…”

Section: The 3w1h Of Stakeholder Involvement-exploring the Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

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This paper contributes to the sustainability debate by analyzing the inclusion dimension in the responsible research and innovation (RRI) process. RRI is claimed to be an important tool for addressing global challenges and achieving sustainable development goals. While stakeholder involvement is considered to be imperative for the RRI process, there is little empirical evidence on (1) who the stakeholders participating in the RRI process are; (2) when stakeholders participate; (3) how stakeholders’ inclusion contributes to the sustainable innovation process; and (4) who the agents are who orchestrate stakeholders’ inclusion. This paper addresses the issue of stakeholder involvement through the lens of innovation management literature by attempting to link the innovation process to the responsibility concept. We employed a meta-synthesis of empirical studies of RRI to develop a deep understanding of stakeholder inclusion. After screening 139 articles, we identified seven empirical papers highlighting RRI process, mainly from projects nested in academic contexts. The findings indicate that multiple stakeholders are included at a late stage of the innovation process—during the market launch. To some extent, this allows for the adaptation of the solution, but such adaptations are limited in nature. This study also identifies the agents who stimulate stakeholder inclusion as being mainly academic researchers and researchers linked to multi-institutional projects. Our findings indicate that innovation management thinking is rarely applied in the governance of research and innovation projects ‘born’ in academia. We suggest enhancing RRI theoretical development by incorporating elements of innovation management such as early inclusion of users in the innovation process. For practitioners, this means an extension of the design space to allow early stakeholder inclusion in the innovation process to ensure responsible outcomes. We also identified avenues for future research. There is a need to systematically investigate which tools and frameworks for deliberate stakeholder inclusion are relevant at the various stages of the innovation and development process.

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Section: Responsible Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The 3w1h Of Stakeholder Involvement-exploring the Innovationmentioning

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The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

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“…The emphasis on innovation in research may be connected to the generally acknowledged commitment of managing technology, the need to demonstrate and communicate the impact of the research at social, environmental, and economic scales, and the need for a better integration between science and industry [34][35][36][37]. In this debate, the concept of RRI has emerged when discussing the impact of science on society and the co-production of solutions to deal with global sustainability goals and purposeful science [38,39], upstream engagement [40], and reflexive responsibility of innovation actors [34]. In research projects, the definition of an RRI strategy differs from the establishment of a research governance scheme by putting more emphasis on the open definition of purposes and motivations and not merely on the products of scientific evaluation [34].…”

Section: Background: Responsible Research and Innovationmentioning

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Experimenting with RRI tools to Drive Sustainable Agri-Food Research: The SASS Case Study from Sub-Saharan Africa

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The need to develop experimental tools for a responsible research and innovation (RRI) framework is relevant for managing research agendas and policy making that seriously take into account the complex conditions of innovation development (linked to multidisciplinarity and interaction processes) between the researchers and their fieldwork activities. The adoption of an RRI framework is even more important for multidisciplinary and complex issues, such as the agri-food system. In this context, the SASS (Sustainable Agri-food Systems for Sustainable Development (SASS) project represents a good example for verifying the application of the RRI strategy in a varied research group committed to the development of sustainable agri-food systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. The project, which involves more than 50 researchers from different fields of knowledge and theoretical backgrounds, showed the importance of the processes of reflection, re-driving, and convergence in the definition of research objectives and strategies. This process started by experimenting with new dedicated RRI tools in order to allow interactions between the researchers, including exchanging their experience in data collection and theoretical reflection development. With respect to this analysis, it was interesting to analyze how the RRI tools and strategies have been activated between researchers and different stakeholders, generating reflections capable of re-adapting the results towards shared and accessible innovation for the extended society. Following the discussion based on the description of the SASS-RRI agenda tools and following an internal verification given from an RRI-based web survey, this contribution provides new insights, in terms of tools and strategies, to promote and refine RRI approaches. This work underlines how RRI methods have promoted internal and external interactions to connect the research objectives towards a model of open innovation.

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“…However, in their current status, they are more recommendations than practical solutions, and they are more intended for public policies than for environmental assessment. Hence, they would hardly be useful for driving responsible research in practice [21].…”

Section: Environmental Responsibility Of Research and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The fields of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable innovation (SI) have devoted more attention to the development of tools covering the anticipation of environmental sustainability [21,24]. Unfortunately, SI is not yet applicable to R&I whose goal is not sustainability [25].…”

Section: Environmental Responsibility Of Research and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anticipating Environmental Burdens in Research and Innovation Projects—Application to the Case of Active and Healthy Ageing

Monsonís-Payá

Gómez‐Navarro

García‐Melón

2020

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In this paper; for research and innovation projects without environmental goals; a procedure is proposed to operationalize the anticipation and reflexivity of environmental concerns in the initial phases. By using the expert knowledge of specialists; we have first conducted a study to identify the general environmental topics relevant in any kind of research and innovation project not addressing the environment. In a second phase; a strategy is proposed to rank order the topics in terms of environmental relevance by means of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. To illustrate it; the case of Information and Communication Technologies for Active and Healthy Ageing is used because of its increasing importance; and because normal environmental targets are not considered. Results show that; in this case; the most relevant topic to be considered is the primary energy consumption by sources; followed by hazardous solid waste and consumption of non-renewable and scarce materials. According to the experts; these should be the main issues to be considered regarding the environmental sustainability of the outputs of such research and innovation projects. In conclusion; this paper contributes to a better understanding of how to promote a wider integration of environmental sustainability in research and innovation when environmental goals are not initially included.

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Addressing Climate Change in Responsible Research and Innovation: Recommendations for Its Operationalization

Cited by 14 publications

References 40 publications

The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

Experimenting with RRI tools to Drive Sustainable Agri-Food Research: The SASS Case Study from Sub-Saharan Africa

Anticipating Environmental Burdens in Research and Innovation Projects—Application to the Case of Active and Healthy Ageing

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