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

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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 8-2. Special issue: RRI Futures

Special issue: RRI Futures – Learning from a decade of Responsible Research and Innovation; Guest Editors: Michiel van Oudheusden and Clare Shelley-Egan The Special Issue opens with the editorial piece RRI futures: ends and beginnings, in which Journal Editor in Chief Erik Fisher offers an overview of the development of the concept and practices behind ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 8-2. Special issue: RRI Futures

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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

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Looking Back on 2021

As another eventful year closes behind us, the Bassetti Foundation sends New Year greetings to all our readers with a look back on events over the last twelve months. INDEX of this page PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND EVENTS In English In Italian PARTICIPATION AND REVIEWS OF CONFERENCES AND EVENTS EVENTS HOSTED Book presentations Dialogues INTERVIEWS ... Looking Back on 2021

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Book Review: Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation. Organisational and National Conditions.

Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation Organisational and National Conditions is a Springer Brief in Ethics written by Christian Wittrock, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Auke Pols, Philip Macnaghten and David Ludwig, several of whom will be familiar names to Bassetti Foundation followers. The book is an analysis of data collected in the EU Horizon 2020 RRI-Practice study and ... Book Review: Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation. Organisational and National Conditions.

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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 8, Issue 1 reviewed

The first issue of Volume 8 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation was released in May of 2021, an important milestone for the Journal as it was the first to be open access from its day of publication. In this post we offer an overview of this groundbreaking issue. The volume opens with Erik Fisher’s ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 8, Issue 1 reviewed

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Two Recent Academic Publications from Bassetti Foundation Collaborators

As regular readers will know, the Bassetti Foundation holds a prominent position at the meeting point of policy focused and academic focused debate around Responsible Innovation, contemporarily holding a seat on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Responsible Innovation (JRI) and coordinating both the Lombardy Regional Forum for Research and Innovation and the TRANSFORM ... Two Recent Academic Publications from Bassetti Foundation Collaborators

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European Biotechnology and Society Seminar Series 2021 – Review, Part 2

(…continues from the previous entry) Week 3 The third week of the seminar series opened with Felix Müller of Evonik Operations GmbH presenting HotSolute: Sustainability from the view of the chemical industry. Through the lens of the HotSolute project, Müller presented the interests and actions carried out by the chemical giant Evonik in its transition ... European Biotechnology and Society Seminar Series 2021 – Review, Part 2

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Nel 2050, Passaggio al Nuovo Mondo – Book review

Nel 2050, Passaggio al Nuovo Mondo (In 2050, Passage to the New World) is the latest book from Paolo Perulli, published in Italian by Il Mulino, Bologna, 2021. In his latest work, Economic Sociologist Paolo Perulli takes a retrospective and prospective position as we find ourselves at the half-way point of a defining moment in ... Nel 2050, Passaggio al Nuovo Mondo – Book review

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European Biotechnology and Society Seminar Series 2021 – Review, Part 1

June saw the launch of the European Biotechnology and Society 2021 seminar series, a five-week long series of presentations and questions. Week 1 This second series opened with a brief introduction from Robert Smith entitled A space beyond the project, before Maja Horst (well known to the Foundation due to her position within the VIRI) ... European Biotechnology and Society Seminar Series 2021 – Review, Part 1

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Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future – Book Review

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future. An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies is the latest book from Bernd Carsten Stahl, and part of the Springer Briefs in Research and Governance series (see also this review of Katharina Jarmai’s book in the same collection). Regular readers will know the author’s ... Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future – Book Review

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Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. JRI Special Issue part 2.

In this post we take a look at the second recent Open Access Special Issue offered by the Journal of Responsible Innovation: Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. In their introduction and overview of the various contributions to this Special Issue, Editors Martin Sand and Samantha Copeland describe the ... Luck as a challenge for the responsible governance of science and technology. JRI Special Issue part 2.

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