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Volume 9, Issue 1 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation Reviewed

Volume 9 opens with Erik Fisher’s Editorial Engaging with societal challenges in responsible innovation, in which the Editor in Chief describes how the issue considers some of the ways in which grand societal challenges have been invoked, framed, and addressed by scientific researchers, university administrators, global actors, and the responsible research and innovation (RRI) community ... Volume 9, Issue 1 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation Reviewed

Jonathan Hankins

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 8, Issue 3 – review

The third issue of Volume 8 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation opens with Erik Fisher‘s editorial, Responsible Innovation Through a Multiplicity of Approaches. Fisher explains the diversity of approaches and fields (human genome editing, digitized energy and automated vehicles, urban innovation, the circular economy to name several) represented in the issue, before offering an ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 8, Issue 3 – review

Jonathan Hankins

Toward Responsible innovation. Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future

In this post I would like to offer some personal thoughts and interpretation on the latest book from Xavier Pavie, Toward Responsible innovation. Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future. Xavier Pavie In the biography that precedes the first chapter, Pavie describes his research activities as addressing the notion of responsible innovation through philosophy ... Toward Responsible innovation. Responsibility and Philosophy for a Humanely Sustainable Future

Jonathan Hankins

Through Alice’s Looking Glass by Piero Bassetti

19 November 2020 sees the release of “Oltre lo specchio di Alice. Governare l’innovazione nel cambiamento d’epoca” (Through Alice’s Looking Glass. Governing innovation through epochal change) by Piero Bassetti for Guerini Editore. Innovation is politics, as a force it drives our destinies. But even after the triumph of the algorithm, the power of social media, ... Through Alice’s Looking Glass by Piero Bassetti

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Responsible Innovation, A Narrative Approach: Serialized in Blog Form

In order to celebrate the release of his book Responsible Innovation, A Narrative Approach (you can find it here), Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins is running a ten-part series on the technologybloggers website in which he offers an outline of each chapter alongside posts offering further analysis of topics addressed. The series started in June with ... Responsible Innovation, A Narrative Approach: Serialized in Blog Form

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Responsible Innovation, a Narrative Approach, by Jonathan Hankins

The latest Responsible Innovation publication, Responsible Innovation, a Narrative Approach by Bassetti Foundation Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins has just been published through the Doctorate School of Bergamo University. The book is based on Hankins’ PhD thesis of the same name, in which he investigates one of the Bassetti Foundation approaches to thinking about responsibility in ... Responsible Innovation, a Narrative Approach, by Jonathan Hankins

Recent Publications on Artificial Intelligence

European Commission Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence Last week (7 December 2018) saw the release of the Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The European Council, The Council, The European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. The aim of the Commission’s strategy on Artificial ... Recent Publications on Artificial Intelligence

Jonathan Hankins

Artificial intelligence and driverless mobility. How will the society of the future change?

The Bassetti Foundation presents a white paper on the development of driverless technology and its social impact. The presentation of this innovative new format took place at the Smart City: Materials, Technology & People exhibition, curated by Giulio Ceppi for Material ConneXion Italia and currently on display at Superstudio Più in via Tortona, Milano. “RESPONSIBILITY ... Artificial intelligence and driverless mobility. How will the society of the future change?

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Glocalism. Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, review of the journal.

The latest edition of the journal Glocalism has just been released, the Bassetti Foundation having participated in the production through its involvement in the editorial process. The issue is titled Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, an argument that as readers will know very much reflects the Foundation’s standpoint. As the editorial points out, at the ... Glocalism. Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, review of the journal.

Jonathan Hankins

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 2

In this the second of two posts we review the second issue of Volume 4 of the JRI. This Special Issue on the relationship between Technology Assessment (TA) and Responsible Innovation (RI) is by far the largest published to date, reflecting the journal’s success in the field and the ever growing influence of the concept ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 2

Jonathan Hankins

Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society

This week saw the digital release of Richard Owen, John Bessant and Maggie Heintz’s book entitled ‘Responsible Innovation: Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society‘. The print copy release is scheduled for next month, and interested readers can download any or all of the chapters through the Wiley website Online Library where ... Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society

Jonathan Hankins

Entrepreneurship and Technical Change, a Book Review

At the Bassetti Foundation we believe that responsibility in innovation must lie in the process, and therefore with the entrepreneur. From this point of view the 2011 publication entitled Entrepreneurship and Technological Change (published by Edward Elgar) offers insight and analysis into the influence of entrepreneurship upon technical change and innovation. The book is divided ... Entrepreneurship and Technical Change, a Book Review

Jonathan Hankins