The limits of responsible innovation: Exploring care, vulnerability and precision medicine

Kerr, Anne; Hill, Rosemary Lucy; Till, Christopher

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2017.03.004

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“…Adaptive forms of governance that centre on responsible research and innovation 9 have been applied to other emerging technologies, such as synthetic biology and nanotechnology 10 . A similar approach for geoengineering will enable scientists to put forward a scientifically sound subset of approaches that can be scrutinized through legal, socio-economic and geopolitical lenses over the next few years.…”

Section: The Way Forwardmentioning

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Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows

Boyd

Vivian

2019

Nature

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ANTHROPOCENE Ernst Haeckel named humans' mark on the planet in 1868 p.164 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY US surveillance project shaped by 1998 movie p.162 MACHINE LEARNING Artificial intelligence turns its untiring eye on art attribution p.161 CLIMATE How are dust and soot affecting the warming of the planet? p.158 T he climate clock is ticking. To turn it back, the world is putting its faith in 'negative-emissions technologies'. These would suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and lock it up for centuries on the land, in the sea or beneath the sea floor (see 'Marine geoengineering'). Although such technologies are yet to be developed, they are nonetheless implicit in assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). To limit warming to 1.5 °C compared to pre-industrial levels, as much as 20 billion tonnes (gigatonnes) of CO 2 might need to be removed from the atmosphere each year until 2100 (ref. 1). Storing carbon in the oceans sounds promising to some. The oceans are vast, and there could be fewer political trade-offs to deal with than on land. For example, fertilizing the water with iron would speed up the growth of phytoplankton and thus take up CO 2 , some of which would sink into the deep ocean as carbon when the organisms die. Another proposal is to spray seawater into the air to help form clouds that reflect sunlight and cool the planet. Techniques such as these would need Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows Gather scientific evidence on the feasibility and risks of marine geoengineering to guide regulation of research, advise Philip Boyd and Chris Vivian. The German ship Polarstern was used in a research experiment that fertilized part of the Southern Ocean with iron in 2004.

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Section: The Way Forwardmentioning

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Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows

Boyd

Vivian

2019

Nature

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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). Nevertheless, the current RRI literature has two main shortcomings.…”

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confidence: 99%

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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“…In addition to these factors, vulnerability may also be generated or exacerbated by (1) health technologies that are used to legitimise discrimination and social inequalities, as illustrated by the built-in racial bias of the spirometer against black people [ 43 ], (2) new forms of healthcare that are simultaneously innovative forms of clinical research (e.g. precision medicine), which increase the number of complex decisions that have to be made by patients and their healthcare providers [ 44 ], and (3) healthcare delivery models in which access to services is based on ability to pay rather than equity, imposing financial barriers and contributing to significant and damaging financial loss [ 45 ]. From this perspective, an innovation may be seen as responsible if it explicitly addresses the needs of groups who are considered vulnerable “ based on the ways in which they are marginalised, socially excluded, have limited opportunities and income, and suffer abuse, hardship, prejudice and discrimination ” [ 46 ].…”

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Introducing responsible innovation in health: a policy-oriented framework

Silva

Lehoux

Miller

et al. 2018

Health Res Policy Sys

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The scholarship on responsible research and innovation (RRI) aims to align the processes and outcomes of innovation with societal values by involving a broad range of stakeholders from a very early stage. Though this scholarship offers a new lens to consider the challenges new health technologies raise for health systems around the world, there is a need to define the dimensions that specifically characterise responsible innovation in health (RIH). The present article aims to introduce an integrative RIH framework drawing on the RRI literature, the international literature on health systems as well as specific bodies of knowledge that shed light on key dimensions of health innovations. Combining inductive and deductive theory-building strategies and concomitant with the development of a formal tool to assess the responsibility of innovations, we developed a framework that is comprised of nine dimensions organised within five value domains, namely population health, health system, economic, organisational and environmental. RIH provides health and innovation policy-makers with a common framework that supports the development of innovations that can tackle significant system-level challenges, including sustainability and equity.

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The limits of responsible innovation: Exploring care, vulnerability and precision medicine

Cited by 36 publications

References 30 publications

Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows

Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows

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

Introducing responsible innovation in health: a policy-oriented framework

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