#innovation and politics

Turning the tide or surfing the wave?

We publish an excerpt from the paper by Simone Amaldi and Guido Gorgoni in which they explore the political and economic context in which the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation has gained attention and taken shape. — Turning the tide or surfing the wave? Responsible Research and Innovation, fundamental rights and neoliberal virtues. The ... Turning the tide or surfing the wave?

Guido Gorgoni
Simone Arnaldi

07/12
2016 4mn
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Models after Models: reversing the innovation pyramid

In occasione dei lavori della XX1 Triennale, Fondazione Bassetti ha stretto una partnership progettuale con De-LAB, laboratorio specializzato in temi di Business Inclusivo e Innovazione Sociale. Dopo una serie di riunioni si è deciso di organizzare un incontro intitolato Model after Models: reversing up the innovation pyramid, che verrà inserito all’interno del programma di eventi, ... Models after Models: reversing the innovation pyramid

Lucia Dal Negro

18/04
2016 3mn
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Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts.

The Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts International Conference took place between March 11th and 12th, 2016 at the Donastia International physics Centre, Donastia-San Sebastian. The conference was followed by the Annual VIRI meeting. I attended both the conference and the AGM in my role as Bassetti Foundation Foreign Correspondent. In ... Responsible Research and Innovation: The Problematic Quest For Right Impacts.

Jonathan Hankins
Sally Randles

06/04
2016 5mn
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2015, promoting responsible forms of innovation

As regular readers will know, the mission of the Bassetti foundation involves promoting and participating in debates surrounding the development of responsible forms of innovation. Each year the foundation forms partnerships and promotes events with governance institutions, universities, private companies, NGO’s and foundations and international research groups. In this short review we cast our lens ... 2015, promoting responsible forms of innovation

Redazione FGB

25/01
2016 10mn
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Volume 2, Journal of Responsible Innovation, a review

The close of the year saw the publication of the third and final issue of Volume 2 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation. In this article we review the volume. Early in 2015, Volume 2 opened with the publication of issue 1. Articles included 4 research articles and a special perspectives section: responsible research and ... Volume 2, Journal of Responsible Innovation, a review

Jonathan Hankins

20/01
2016 12mn
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VIRI, First Annual Meeting

July of this year saw the first annual meeting of the Virtual Institute for responsible Innovation (VIRI). To readers who might not know the institute – VIRI was created to accelerate the formation of a community of scholars and practitioners who, despite divides in geography and political culture, will create a common concept of responsible ... VIRI, First Annual Meeting

Redazione FGB

16/09
2015 3mn
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Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 2, Issue 1 Reviewed

The current and first issue of the second volume of the Journal of Responsible Innovation opens with an editorial by Editor in Chief David Guston. Responsible innovation: who could be against that? opens with an interesting issue, with Guston arguing that although the goals of RI are easy to understand and accept, some members of ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 2, Issue 1 Reviewed

Jonathan Hankins

29/06
2015 10mn
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Wave – How collective ingenuity is changing the world.

After Paris, Marseille and Lille, Wave – How collective ingenuity is changing the world, a project of the BNP Paribas group, comes to Milan. The Italian event is directed by Trivioquadrivio with the collaboration of the Giannino Bassetti Foundation. The protagonists of innovation, selected from within five “currents” – co-creation, sharing, inclusion, circularity and the ... Wave – How collective ingenuity is changing the world.

Piero Bassetti

27/05
2015 3mn
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2014, A Year in Responsible Innovation

2014 was a busy year for the Bassetti Foundation. In this post we describe some of the International conferences and projects that the Foundation participated in. American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting The American Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in Chicago from 13th to 17th February, and Ottavia ... 2014, A Year in Responsible Innovation

Redazione FGB

16/01
2015 5mn
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VIRI Announces New Partners

Last month the Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation announced that several new partners had been voted into the organization. The new partners bring in new geographical areas, most notably with the addition of South Korean and Japanese institutions. The new members are the following: ISIS, The Institute for Strategic Innovation and Services, led by its ... VIRI Announces New Partners

Redazione FGB

16/07
2014 3mn
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The European Business Ethics Network Conference

The German Network for Business Ethics (DNWE) recently organized the annual conference for its European Organisation: The European Business Ethics Network – EBEN. The conference took place in Berlin from the 12th to the 14th of June 2014, and was located in the ESTM European School of Management and Technology. The EBEN annual conference brought ... The European Business Ethics Network Conference

Alessandro Blasimme
Virginia Sanchini

08/07
2014 2mn
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Responsible Innovation: Values and Valorisation Conference

On May 21 – 22, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) hosted the Third International Conference on Responsible Innovation in The Hague, The Netherlands. The conference brought together researchers from various academic disciplines, as well as representatives from both public and private sector to discuss the merits, practices and necessity of responsible innovation for ... Responsible Innovation: Values and Valorisation Conference

Jonathan Hankins

16/06
2014 4mn
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