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A comprehensive appraisal of responsible research and innovation : From roots to leaves

Responsible innovation (RI) is one of the most recent movements to advocate that science, engineering and technology develop in ways that better reflect and respond to diverse societal values and c...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23299460.2021.1907045

Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the ‘Other Sciences’ at the National Science Foundation: by Mark Solovey, MIT Press, 2020, pp. 408, $50 USD (Paperback), ISBN 9780262539050

Tracing the historical emergence of academic/policy discourses shines a light on processes of early institutionalisation, informs narratives of contemporary self-identity and provides a resource from which to imagine alternative futures. Contributing to this ambition our paper uses scientometric methods to undertake two socio-semantic analyses. First, we identify the de-facto origins and contemporary clustering of scientists’ discursive spaces of ‘responsibility’. This ‘rri corpus’ reveals seven distinct clusters – or discourse coalitions of responsibility – but shows limited cross-fertilisation between the clusters. Second we trace the emergence of European policy on ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ (RRI). The ‘RRI corpus’ shows policy to have been dominated by a small number of actors. Some cross-over between rri and RRI provides evidence of discourse coalition building, but only a small group of actors occupy these strategic bridges. The paper offers a contribution to wider debates and strategic reflections on the past, present and futures of responsible innovation. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23299460.2022.2061306?needAccess=true

Two tribes or more? The historical emergence of discourse coalitions of responsible research and innovation (rri) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

The Internet of Food Things Network+ (IoFT) and the Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigation for Scientific Discovery Network+ (AI3SD) brought together an interdisciplinary multi-institution working group to create an ethical framework for digital collaboration in the food industry. This will enable the exploration of implications and consequences (both intentional and unintentional) of using cutting-edge technologies to support the implementation of data trusts and other forms of digital collaboration in the food sector. This article describes how we identified areas for ethical consideration with respect to digital collaboration and the use of Industry 4.0 technologies in the food sector and describes the different interdisciplinary methodologies being used to produce this framework. The research questions and objectives that are being addressed by the working group are laid out, with a report on our ongoing work. The article concludes with recommendations about working on projects in this area.

Considering the ethical implications of digital collaboration in the Food Sector.

RRI Futures: learning from a diversity of voices and visions

Despite reflexivity being held up as a core pillar of Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I), actors in the field have yet to consider the importance of R(R)I's history. Acknowledging field ha...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23299460.2021.1882748

Danielle Shanley

Papers

Imagining the future through revisiting the past: the value of history in thinking about R(R)I’s possible future(s)