Responsible innovation: its institutionalisation and a critique

Genus, Audley; Iskandarova, Marfuga

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2017.09.029

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“…We can clearly see that the stakeholder issue, in RRI and RI, has been covered in an increasing number of articles in the last five years, confirming the importance of the issue. The relationship of stakeholders in the RRI context is consistent with other research, such as the study by Genus and Iskandarova [71]. The authors identify that most of the research on RRI has been published during the period 2011-2015, most of it being conducted in sector contexts concerning the dissemination of RRI tools and practices through funded projects (mainly the European Commission).…”

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The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

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This paper contributes to the sustainability debate by analyzing the inclusion dimension in the responsible research and innovation (RRI) process. RRI is claimed to be an important tool for addressing global challenges and achieving sustainable development goals. While stakeholder involvement is considered to be imperative for the RRI process, there is little empirical evidence on (1) who the stakeholders participating in the RRI process are; (2) when stakeholders participate; (3) how stakeholders’ inclusion contributes to the sustainable innovation process; and (4) who the agents are who orchestrate stakeholders’ inclusion. This paper addresses the issue of stakeholder involvement through the lens of innovation management literature by attempting to link the innovation process to the responsibility concept. We employed a meta-synthesis of empirical studies of RRI to develop a deep understanding of stakeholder inclusion. After screening 139 articles, we identified seven empirical papers highlighting RRI process, mainly from projects nested in academic contexts. The findings indicate that multiple stakeholders are included at a late stage of the innovation process—during the market launch. To some extent, this allows for the adaptation of the solution, but such adaptations are limited in nature. This study also identifies the agents who stimulate stakeholder inclusion as being mainly academic researchers and researchers linked to multi-institutional projects. Our findings indicate that innovation management thinking is rarely applied in the governance of research and innovation projects ‘born’ in academia. We suggest enhancing RRI theoretical development by incorporating elements of innovation management such as early inclusion of users in the innovation process. For practitioners, this means an extension of the design space to allow early stakeholder inclusion in the innovation process to ensure responsible outcomes. We also identified avenues for future research. There is a need to systematically investigate which tools and frameworks for deliberate stakeholder inclusion are relevant at the various stages of the innovation and development process.

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“…About 90% of RI research has been published from the year 2011, coming from various disciplines such as: science, technology, engineering, computer and information technology, innovation, sociology, psychology, politics, ethics and business [54]. Initially, the empirical research was focused on topics of nanotechnologies, geo-engineering, biomedical technologies, public involvement and dialogue processes.…”

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Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs

Bahena-Álvarez

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Cruz³

2019

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Responsible innovation combines philanthropic and economic aspects and it is common to refer to entrepreneurs who lead it as “social entrepreneurs”. The present study of 100 Mexican small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), provides knowledge of an exploratory nature about what the models of organization are conducive to SMEs in the generation and development of responsible innovations. Through the statistical technique of cluster analysis, this study identified and characterized four models of organization according to the level of social entrepreneurship intentions reached: (1) “The techno-scientific organization”, (2) “The techno-social organization”, (3) “The capitalist-social organization” and (4) “The capitalist organization”. While in Europe the dominant discourse about responsible innovation focuses on the control of the risk of social rejection of the advance of science and technology. In contexts, such as the Mexicans, the phenomenon is configured as the mechanism through which entrepreneurs articulate its technological and scientific capabilities to solve priority and specific problems of the society, however, the social impact does not crucially affect their business initiatives. The techno-scientific organization (50% of studied SMEs) is proposed as the model of organization with greater viability for Mexican entrepreneurs.

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“…About 90% of IR research has been published from the year 2011, coming from various disciplines such as: science, technology, engineering, computer and information technology, innovation, sociology, psychology, politics, ethics and business [32]. Initially the empirical research was focused on topics of nanotechnologies, geo-engineering, biomedical technologies, public involvement and dialogue processes.…”

Section: Responsible Innovation: New Contract Between Science Technomentioning

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Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs

Bahena-Álvarez¹,

Pozo²,

Cruz³

2019

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Responsible innovation combines philanthropic and economic aspects and it is common to refer to entrepreneurs who lead it as "social entrepreneurs". The present study of 100 Mexican SMEs, provides knowledge of exploratory nature about what the models of organization are conducive to SMEs in the generation and development of responsible innovations. Through the statistical technique of cluster analysis, this study identified and characterized four models of organization according to the level of social entrepreneurship reached: (1) “The techno-scientific organization”, (2) “The techno-social organization”, (3) “The capitalist-social organization” and (4) “The capitalist organization”. While in Europe the dominant discourse about responsible innovation focuses on the control of the risk of social rejection of the advance of science and technology; in contexts such as the Mexican, the phenomenon is configured as the mechanism through which entrepreneurs articulate its technological and scientific capabilities to solve priority and specific problems of the society, however, the social impact does not crucially affect their business initiatives. The techno-scientific organization (50% of studied SMEs) is proposed as the model of organization with greater viability for Mexican entrepreneurs.

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Responsible innovation: its institutionalisation and a critique

Cited by 61 publications

References 40 publications

The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs

Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs

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