Leading RRI researchers and practitioners, together with policymakers and stakeholder organisations, discussed the stateof-the-art and future perspectives for RRI at the 'Pathways to Transformation' conference in June 2019, an event which was extended beyond Brussels, for instance by ca. 330 original tweets and ca. 840 retweets from ca. 160 unique accounts. In the conference, many participants expressed their concern about an uncertain future for RRI in the EC. As a result, numerous largescale EU-funded RRI projects signed a Joint Declaration 1 , urging the European Commission to make RRI a key objective of the upcoming framework programme, Horizon Europea plea to both mainstream the approach across the programme and provide specific resources for strengthening the RRI knowledge base. As the Horizon Europe programme is being forged, it is timely to present the Declaration for a broader audience.
This study empirically investigates the two options which were considered by the German presidency for finding a solution to the crisis of the EU's reform process. Our findings reveal that making concessions to the remaining eight ratification countries and renegotiating the text with all Member States were feasible solutions for reform. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author(s).
This project breaks new ground. For the first time, it takes stock, categorises, and analyses evaluation practice in innovation policy in EU Member States. The project ran from January 2007 to January 2010 and would have not been possible without the help and support of many people. During all of this time, a steering committee has overseen or followed the work, reflected on its various steps and come together to two key events. The advice given by the members of that committee has been extremely valuable. The project team would like to thank the policy makers Ulrike Blankenfeld (DE), Mark Beatson (UK), Luisa Henriques (ES) Nick Constantopoulos (GR), Rupert Pichler (AT), Jari Romanainien (FI), as well as our colleagues Aleardo Fulrani and Bart Kamp (INNOVA Europe), Phil Shapira (MBS, Manchester) and Anthony Arundel (MERIT) very much for their advice and for their valuable time. Without this advice, the reassurance and constructive critique and the ideas for new avenues the study team would have felt much less secure in pushing ahead with such a novel methodology.
The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has experienced a remarkable career within the European Union’s policies for funding research and innovation, culminating in the embedding of RRI as a cross-cutting issue in the Horizon 2020 (H2020) framework programme. However, despite favourable conditions, empirical evidence shows that efforts to mainstream RRI at the level of policy practice and implementation by and large failed. With the aim of better understanding the reasons for the limited success of mainstreaming RRI, the authors draw on the concept of Deep Institutionalisation (DI) and adapt it to the analysis of institutionalisation processes related to policy practice and implementation. The adapted DI concept is applied to H2020 by using recent findings from RRI research to provide empirical illustration. The results suggest that key preconditions for the successful institutionalisation of RRI policies were not fulfilled. Specifically, broader policy debates reaching beyond the confines of a small policy arena within the European Commission, a lack of experimental embedding allowing for adjustment to different contexts, and the development of ownership in particular were not achieved. Building on the cornerstones of the DI concept, the authors conclude that attempts to mainstream RRI in H2020 have been premature.
We contribute to the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) literature in two ways: (i) we consider how societal aspects are taken into account in research and innovation (R&I) activities in four fundamentally different scenarios, as opposed to analysing current practices; and (ii) put the emphasis on the political conditions of the interactions among the actors, as opposed to focussing on RRI principles and instruments. In the Kingdom of RRI citizens participate directly in decision-making processes; Fortress Europe depicts a libertarian system; Failed Democracy is a populist regime; while Benevolent Green Eurocrats describes a technocratically coordinated strong state. The scenarios offer novel insights into the nature and repercussions of possible policy problems, that is, efficacy; efficiency; legitimacy of R&I activities; societal involvement; equity; and freedom of research. Meaningful interactions between lay people and professional actors in an innovation system can be safeguarded even in the harshest ideological and political framework.
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