Responsible innovation as a critique of technology assessment

Generative Critique in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: From Critique in and of the Neurosciences to Socio-Technical Integration Research as a Practice of Critique in R(R)I

“…EER is a collaboration between the Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin and the Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) at Aarhus University that develops open-ended experiments to explore perception, decision-making, action, collaboration, and knowledge transmission. 6 The project calls for new forms of thought and action in response to contemporary environmental, political, and societal challenges. It enacts a generative critique of the status quo-'deep crises in trust and social cohesion' [114]-by making efforts to develop narratives and models for action to navigate the future in different ways.…”

“…Despite challenges, some practices have been recognised among scholars, policy-makers, scientists, engineers, and other professionals as 'effective' [120][121][122][123]. For these communities, 6 Videos from a first EER workshop in June 2018 are published on www.soe.tv/themes/experience. 7 The author of this article visited the IMC in August 2019 to gain insights into how interdisciplinary research is initiated and facilitated in interdisciplinary centres and collectives.…”

“…This agenda has been related in different manners to critique in R(R)I. Van Lente et al's recent paper on 'Responsible innovation as a critique of technology assessment' [6] sparked discussions in R(R)I communities before it was published. Heated discussions have also revolved around the claim that R(R)I is itself in need of critique [7,8], especially in light of forecasts of 'the end of RRI' ( [9], p. 253) due to difficulties of putting it into practice [10][11][12][13].…”

Inclusive Innovation in Developed Countries: The Who, What, Why, and How

“…Another widely applied stream of research resulted in various forms of lifecycle assessments for environmental impacts. Initially, the consideration of stakeholders in technology assessment was limited to experts assessing the impact on various stakeholder groups (van Lente et al, 2017), but more recent methods of technology assessment emphasize the importance of including stakeholders in the assessment of technologies (participatory technology assessment: Sclove, 1995Sclove, , 2012Joss & Bellucci (2002), and also in the creation of technologies themselves (constructive technology assessment: Schot & Rip (1997).…”

“…Responsible research and innovation (RRI) has emerged in the context of policy pressures on research and innovation to address societal concerns (Strand et al, 2015;van Lente et al, 2017;von Schomberg, 2012, also note the link with technology assessment: Delvenne, 2017;van Est, 2017;van Lente et al, 2017). RRI "is a transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products( in order to allow a proper embedding of scientific and technological advances in our society)" (von Schomberg, 2012).…”