Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference

Conference Theme: Making and doing transformations In July I attended the quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). This (the 11th quadrennial joint conference) was hosted by the Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). EASST is the European Association for ... Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference

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NOvation. A Position Paper from René von Schomberg

NOvation. Critical Studies of Innovation As is tradition at the Bassetti Foundation, in this article we propose a little ‘light’ reading for the summer break. The latest edition of NOvation is a special issue that opens with a position paper by René von Schomberg entitled Towards a New Ethos of Science or a Reform of ... NOvation. A Position Paper from René von Schomberg

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Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

As regular readers will know, the Bassetti Foundation has long been raising questions around relationships between food, its procurement choices and responsible innovation thinking, an overview of which can be found here. In this, the third review of Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation (2023), we take a look at four articles that ... Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

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Journal of Responsible Innovation: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation

As regular readers will know, in 2023 the Journal of Responsible Innovation changed format. Volume 10 was not divided into three issues as those previous, but contributions were added throughout the year. The volume featured several thematic collections, the first of which Engagement of Publics was reviewed here. In this post we take a look ... Journal of Responsible Innovation: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation

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Engagement of Publics in the JRI

Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation remains ‘in progress’ and is being constantly updated. This volume has articles gathered within collections, the largest of which may be of particular interest to Foundation followers as it addressees Engagement of Publics (one of our primary interests). The collection currently (October 2023) features five research articles ... Engagement of Publics in the JRI

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Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach

Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach, edited by Vincent Blok, (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Volume 40, published by Springer, 2022), is a collection that has grown out of the NewHoRRIzon project (2017-2021). This project focused on developing a ‘conceptual and operational basis to fully integrate RRI into European and ... Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach

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I processi di co-creazione nell’innovazione tecno-scientifica. Uno studio.

Il 16 giugno 2023 presso il Politecnico di Milano i risultati di una ricerca che ha analizzato alcune comunità di innovazione. Tra i partecipanti alla giornata di studio anche la nostra Fondazione. L’ambivalenza che caratterizza il rapporto fra scienza, tecnologie e società, i dilemmi etici generati dall’innovazione scientifica e tecnologica, gli impatti positivi e al ... I processi di co-creazione nell’innovazione tecno-scientifica. Uno studio.

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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 3

This issue contains six research articles, opening with Challenges in the implementation of responsible researchand innovation across Horizon 2020 from Raúl Tabarés, Anne Loeber, Mika Nieminen, Michael J. Bernstein,Erich Griessler, Vincent Blok, Joshua Cohen, Helmut Hönigmayer, Ulrike Wunderle and Elisabeth Frankus. Based on policy document analysis as a series of interviews carried out as part ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 3

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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 2

As regular readers might imagine, Issue 2 opens with Erik Fisher‘s Editorial, in this case Responding to difference in and for RI. Fisher identifies the theme of responding to difference in and for responsible innovation as being salient to this issue, described as ‘a rich selection of scholarly treatments of difference in the framings, strategies, ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 2

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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

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Open Scholarship, Responsible Innovation and Anticipatory Governance Workshop

The Open Scholarship, Responsible Innovation and Anticipatory Governance workshop was held on 29-30 June at Käte Hamburger Kolleg (KHK), Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University. Foreign Scientific Correspondent Jonathan Hankins attended and files the following report. In his introduction to the workshop, René von Schomberg shared his view that a well-developed open scholarship science system ... Open Scholarship, Responsible Innovation and Anticipatory Governance Workshop

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Responsible Smart Mobility: una Citizens’ Jury per raccogliere le opinioni dei cittadini

Grazie al progetto EU H2020 TRANSFORM l’11 giugno si svolgerà la prima giornata della Giuria di Cittadine e Cittadini su mobilità intelligente e responsabile in Lombardia. Il progetto EU H2020 TRANSFORM, di cui Fondazione Giannino Bassetti è ente coordinatore, è entrato nel suo terzo e ultimo anno di attività. Dopo l’intenso lavoro preparatorio del 2020 ... Responsible Smart Mobility: una Citizens’ Jury per raccogliere le opinioni dei cittadini

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