Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice

Vincent Blok is associate professor in Philosophy of Technology and Responsible Innovation at the Philosophy Group, Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He is also director of the 4TU.Ethics Graduate School in the Netherlands. Together with seven PhD candidates and four Post-docs, he reflects on the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment from a continental philosophical perspective. He is also involved in several European and Nationally funded projects in the area of ethics of (digital) technologies and responsible innovation. Blok published over hundred articles in high ranked philosophy journals like Environmental Values, Business Ethics Quarterly, Synthese and Philosophy & Technology, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Journal of Responsible Innovation, Public understanding of Science and Journal of Cleaner Production. See www.vincentblok.nl for more information about his current research.

• Part 1 – Responsible Research & Innovation as EU policy.- Chapter 1: The drama of Responsible Research and Innovation: the ups and downs of a policy concept.- Chapter 2: The Institutionalisation of a New Paradigm at Policy Level.- Chapter 3: Democratic Experimentation with Responsibility: A Pragmatist Approach to RRI.- Chapter 4: Cultural particularities and its role in the “innovation divide”: A closer look at the origins of “Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation”.- Chapter 5: Joining forces – staying unique: Adapting RRI to different research and innovation funding agency contexts.- Part 2 - Public Engagement for Responsible Research & Innovation.- Chapter 6: Public engagement in the tradition of participatory approaches - an approximation.- Chapter 7: Social Labs in Public Engagement Processes for RRI.- Chapter 8: Exploring the ambivalent nature of diversity in social experimental settings: First insights from social labs established to promote Responsible Research and Innovation.- Chapter 9: Engaging stakeholders by implementing RRI in the Social Lab Process – A Single Case Study.- Part 3 - Governance of Responsible Research & Innovation.- Chapter 10: Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation: From New Public Management to New Public Governance.- Chapter 11: STAKEHOLDERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION: TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE.- Chapter 12: Managing the responsibilities of doing good and avoiding harm in sustainability-orientated innovations: Example from agri-tech start-ups in the Netherlands.- Chapter 13: Conclusion: Implementation of Responsible Research and Innovation by social labs. Lessons from the micro-, meso- and macro perspective.Part 2 – Understanding Responsibility in Research and Innovation.- Part 3 – Future of Responsibility in Research and Innovation.- Conclusions.- index.