Journal ArticleDOI
Responsible innovation as an endorsement of public values: the need for interdisciplinary research
TLDR
In this paper, the authors conceptualize responsible innovation as the adequate and timely inclusion of public values relevant to technological development, and take public debate to be the empirical source for extracting public values.Abstract:
This article has a theoretical and a practical objective. The theoretical objective is to conceptualize responsible innovation as the adequate and timely inclusion of public values relevant to technological development. Technological innovations always occur in a specific institutional context, closely connected to stakeholder dynamics. Hence, an ideal approach to responsible innovation requires interdisciplinary research that incorporates: (i) the ethics of technology, to investigate the role of values in design; (ii) institutional theory, to understand the parts played by institutions in realizing values; and (iii) policy, planning and science, technology and society literature, to focus on stakeholder engagement. The practical objective is to explain how this approach can be operationalized. Since values emerge and evolve during the development and implementation of technologies, we take public debate to be the empirical source for extracting public values. Several salient questions need to be addresse...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
A review of social science on digital agriculture, smart farming and agriculture 4.0: New contributions and a future research agenda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present seventeen articles dealing with social, economic and institutional dynamics of precision farming, digital agriculture, smart farming or agriculture 4.0, and reveal new insights on the link between digital agriculture and farm diversity, new economic, business and institutional arrangements both on-farm, in the value chain and food system, and in the innovation system.
Journal ArticleDOI
Value of Augmented Reality at Cultural Heritage Sites: A Stakeholder Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the perceived value of AR from multiple stakeholders' perspectives to ensure the long-term viability of technological innovations in small cultural heritage organizations in the UK.
Journal ArticleDOI
Mapping the integrative field: taking stock of socio-technical collaborations
Erik Fisher,Michael O'Rourke,Robert Evans,Eric B. Kennedy,Michael E. Gorman,Thomas P. Seager +5 more
TL;DR: This work takes stock of various collaborative approaches to socio-technical integration that seek to broaden the societal contexts technical experts take into account during their routine activities and provides a framework for comparing the forms, means, and ends of collaborative integration.
Journal ArticleDOI
Responsible innovation: motivations for a new journal
David H. Guston,Erik Fisher,Armin Grunwald,Richard Owen,Tsjalling Swierstra,Simone van der Burg +5 more
TL;DR: In contemporary culture, the image of technology as a passive tool to serve us and to satisfy our desires is increasingly revealed as illusory as discussed by the authors, and technology is a world-shaping force, a force that als...
Journal ArticleDOI
Anticipatory life-cycle assessment for responsible research and innovation
Ben A. Wender,Rider W. Foley,Troy A. Hottle,Jathan Sadowski,Valentina Prado-Lopez,Daniel A. Eisenberg,Lise Laurin,Thomas P. Seager +7 more
TL;DR: The goal of guiding innovation toward beneficial social and environmental outcomes referred to in the growing literature as responsible research and innovation (RRI) is intuitively worthwhile but lacks practicable tools for implementation One potentially useful tool is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which is a comprehensive framework used to evaluate the environmental impacts of products, processes, and technologies.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
A typology of public engagement mechanisms
Gene Rowe,Lynn J. Frewer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define key concepts in the public participation domain: public communication, public consultation, and public participation, differentiated according to the nature and flow of information between exercise sponsors and participants.
Book
Public Values and Public Interest: Counterbalancing Economic Individualism
TL;DR: The case of genetically modified foods and the "Terminator Gene" was discussed in this paper, where the authors argued that the value of public value should be expressed as a function of the public value.
Journal ArticleDOI
Public Value Inside: What is Public Value Creation?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop building blocks for a non-normative public value theory, based on a range of philosophical, psychological, and economic concepts, with a special emphasis on the public sector.
Value Sensitive Design: Theory and Methods
TL;DR: Value-sensitive design as discussed by the authors is a theoretically grounded approach to the design of technology that accounts for human values in a principled and comprehensive manner throughout the design process, which employs an integrative and iterative tripartite methodology, consisting of conceptual, empirical, and technical investigations.