Responsible research and innovation: a systematic review of the literature and its applications to regional studies

Thapa, Rajan Kumar; Iakovleva, Tatiana; Foss, Lene

doi:10.1080/09654313.2019.1625871

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“…The RRI literature has been criticized for being particularly occupied with the materiality of innovation, in terms of technology development and research-driven innovation. Much RRI research has investigated the research and innovation process around the development of technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, and various forms of digitalization, with an emphasis on their potential negative impacts [17]. Studies have also addressed how to implement the RRI framework in public research funding institutions throughout Europe and the USA [18].…”

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Place-Based Directionality of Innovation: Tasmanian Salmon Farming and Responsible Innovation

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The aim of this paper has been to explore, in depth, the place-based conditions enabling and constraining the directionality of responsible innovation in the Tasmanian salmon farming industry, and to discuss how this case can inform the broader literature on directionality of innovations. Theoretically, we argue that the combination of literature on responsible research and innovation (RRI), regional innovation system (RIS) and discourse theory is a useful starting point for addressing innovation as a territorial complex consisting of a material dimension in terms of technologies and resources, an organizational dimension in terms of innovation systems and regulations, and a discursive dimension in terms of narratives in play. When applying the complex to analyze how place-based conditions have enabled and constrained the directionality of responsible innovation in the Tasmanian salmon industry, the case discerns that the directionality of responsible innovation arises from a rather mature and well-organized regional innovation system, which allows multiple stakeholders to articulate their narratives. Under such circumstances, responsible innovation becomes a multidimensional, interactive, and co-created phenomenon consisting of several dilemmas. Still, although the contextualization of responsible innovation is highlighted, our case study acknowledges that certain “universal” characteristics shine through. By this we mean that context sensitivity must not supersede the fact that place-based responsible innovation is always subject to some generic dynamism: under all circumstances there will be a territorial innovation complex at play.

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Place-Based Directionality of Innovation: Tasmanian Salmon Farming and Responsible Innovation

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“…Much RRI research has investigated the research and innovation process surrounding the development of sensitive technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and various forms of digitalization, with an emphasis on these new technologies' potential negative impacts (Thapa, Iakovleva, & Foss, 2019). Studies have also addressed ways to implement the RRI framework in publicly funded research institutions in Europe and the U.S. (Kerr, Hill, & Till, 2018).…”

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Expanding the field of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) – from responsible research to responsible innovation

Jakobsen

Fløysand

Overton

2019

European Planning Studies

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In the last decade, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has earned a prominent position in policy spheres by offering forward-looking approaches and a framework for reflecting on the societal impact of research and innovation. Nevertheless, RRI remains an immature and relatively narrow area of inquiry, with a top-down approach and guided by standardized principles. Further, the field lacks focus on how researchers, firms and other actors actually perform responsible research and innovation. By unveiling the heterogeneity of responsibility practice, this special issue broadens RRI's scope in two ways. First, by expanding RRI's narrow focus on the research processes towards an approach that also takes into account how new knowledge and new ideas are becoming research-based innovations in society. Second, by including a wider spectrum of responsible innovation processes, and not only those that are research-driven. This special issue includes 10 investigations of heterogeneous responsible innovation practices that cross sectors and regions. Using the lessons these contributions teach, we close the issue with suggestions for a new multidimensional, multi-scale avenue for RRI.

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“…The idea of "responsible innovation" has a long heritage as a field of research and practice. Today the discussion focuses on key themes such as sustainability, ethics, and social responsibility in a wide range of books and journals [5][6][7].…”

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Changing Role of Users—Innovating Responsibly in Digital Health

2021

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Despite the recognition of the importance of stakeholder inclusion into decisions about new solutions offered to society, responsible innovation (RI) has stalled at the point of articulating a process of governance with a strongly normative loading, without clear practical guidelines toward implementation practices. The principles of RI direct us to involve the user early in the innovation process. However, it lacks direction of how to involve users and stakeholders into this process. In this article, we try to understand how to empower users to become a part of innovation process though empirical cases. Based on 11 cases of firms innovating in digital health and welfare services, we look on firm practices for user integration into their innovation process, as well as how the user’s behavior is changing due to new trends such as availability of information and digitalization of services. We try to explore this question through lenses of responsible innovation in the emerging field of digital healthcare. Our findings indicate that users are not a homogenous group—rather, their willingness to engage in innovative processes are distributed across a spectrum, ranging from informed to involved and, at extreme, to innovative user. Further, we identified signs of user and stakeholder inclusion in all our cases—albeit in different degrees. The most common group of inclusion is with involved users, and firms’ practices varying from sharing reciprocal information with users, to integration through focus groups, testing or collecting a more formative feedbacks from users. Although user inclusion into design space is perceived as important and beneficial for matching with market demands, it is also a time-consuming and costly process. We conclude with debating some policy impacts, pointing to the fact that inclusion is a resource-consuming process especially for small firms and that policy instruments have to be in place in order to secure true inclusion of users into the innovation process. Our article sheds light on RI practices, and we also suggest some avenues for future research to identify more precisely whom to include, when to include and at what stage of the innovation process.

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Responsible research and innovation: a systematic review of the literature and its applications to regional studies

Cited by 60 publications

References 77 publications

Place-Based Directionality of Innovation: Tasmanian Salmon Farming and Responsible Innovation

Place-Based Directionality of Innovation: Tasmanian Salmon Farming and Responsible Innovation

Expanding the field of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) – from responsible research to responsible innovation

Changing Role of Users—Innovating Responsibly in Digital Health

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