Collingridge and the dilemma of control: Towards responsible and accountable innovation

Genus, Audley; Stirling, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2017.09.012

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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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Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows

Boyd

Vivian

2019

Nature

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“…Genus and Stirling (2018) -but also from the difficulties in democratising science, technology and innovation, addressing divergent stakeholder perspectives, and ensuring a closer correspondence between their benefits and the needs of diverse publics. Neither Collingridge's dilemma, nor the dilemma of societal alignment are moral dilemmas sensu stricto.…”

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Introducing the dilemma of societal alignment for inclusive and responsible research and innovation

Ribeiro

Bengtsson

Benneworth

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Journal of Responsible Innovation

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In this discussion paper, we outline and reflect on some of the key challenges that influence the development and uptake of more inclusive and responsible forms of research and innovation. Taking these challenges together, we invoke Collingridge's famous dilemma of social control of technology to introduce a complementary dilemma that of 'societal alignment' in the governance of science, technology and innovation. Considerations of social alignment are scattered and overlooked among some communities in the field of science, technology and innovation policy. By starting to unpack this dilemma, we outline an agenda for further consideration of social alignment in the study of responsible research and innovation.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…This aspect of RRI directs greater challenge-led science and innovation, with broader framing than just research excellence. Since RRI particularly addresses questions such as how to ensure the 'right' societal impacts of research and innovation (Genus & Stirling, 2018;Stilgoe et al, 2013), it initiates discussions about 'desirable' societal benefits.…”

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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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Collingridge and the dilemma of control: Towards responsible and accountable innovation

Cited by 175 publications

References 44 publications

Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows

Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows

Introducing the dilemma of societal alignment for inclusive and responsible research and innovation

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

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