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Responsible Innovation Richard Owen University of Exeter Business School

Explore the complexities of innovation through the SPICE project and societal engagement. Address questions, risks, and inclusivity in technological progress while promoting ethical considerations.

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Responsible Innovation Richard Owen University of Exeter Business School

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  1. Responsible Innovation Richard Owen University of Exeter Business School

  2. Innovation creates futures... in some times profound, complex and global ways.......

  3. SPICE : Stratospheric particle injection for climate engineering Stratosphere (15-50km) UK Research Council Funded project

  4. Questions, dilemmas, uncertainties Wider risks and distribution Unanticipated consequences Eternal experiment with nature Political constitution Motivation Who has control etc..etc….

  5. How can we collectively engage with, and shape, the futures science and innovation seek to create? How do we empower social agency in technological choices? What kind of future do we want science and Innovation to bring into the world?

  6. Science, technologies and innovation are often Socially, politically and culturally entangled… Unintentionally…. or by design So being responsible has to be more than thinking about risks

  7. Artefacts have politics……or not all innovations are born equal Robert Moses’s Bridges- Manhattan to Long Island Cardiff City Centre

  8. How can we collectively engage with the social, political and ethical dimensions of science and innovation ? In a way that is inclusive…. and responsive

  9. Science and Innovation are unpredictable, uncertain and ambiguous.... They present questions and dilemmas as well as opportunities and solutions

  10. Innovation of asset backed securities – collateralised debt obligations (ABS-CDO’s)

  11. Innovation doesn’t look like this……

  12. It looks like this……

  13. How should we proceed under conditions of uncertainty, ignorance and plurality? Where good intentions can sometimes have unintended impacts…. at sometimes global, and intergenerational scales…

  14. Research, development and commercialisation Knowledge of implications Investment Action e.g. regulation Decades: 30 – 100years

  15. The limits of market choice, regulationand the ‘Dilemma of Control’ Stronger case for control, but innovation is ‘locked in’ High Good Opportunity for control, but insufficient evidence of impacts to justify Knowledge of impacts Investment Low Poor Immature Technological Maturity Mature

  16. How do we engage with these issues Institutionally? Systematically? Collectively (and inclusively)?

  17. Responsible Innovation as a process – key competencies Tools With thanks to the EU RRI Tools project

  18. We don’t need to re-invent the wheel….. Stilgoe, Owen and Macnaghten (2013) Research Policy 42: 1568-1580

  19. Responsible innovation is about embedding within the research and innovation process the capacity to be: Anticipatory What are the intended impacts? What other pathways could it have? How else might it be used?

  20. Responsible innovation is about embedding within the research and innovation process the capacity to be: Reflexive Is it safe? What risks might it pose? What regulations apply? Why are we doing it? What are our motivations? Who could benefit, and who not? What are the alternatives?

  21. Responsible innovation is about embedding within the research and innovation process the capacity to be: Inclusive (and deliberative) How do others frame what we are doing? How do we include under represented voices? What questions to they ask? Is it acceptable? Is it desirable?

  22. Responsible innovation is about embedding within the research and innovation process the capacity to be: Open and transparent How do we make visible the future in the making?

  23. Responsible innovation is about embedding within the research and innovation process the capacity to be: Responsive How can we ensure the goals, purposes, directions and trajectories of innovation are responsive and adaptive: to emerging information to emerging views embedded and integrated into the innovation system

  24. Responsible Innovation as a systemic paradigm shift Metagovernance Integrated Multi disciplinary Normative Orientation Political Economy Tools Embedded Systemic

  25. www.epsrc.ac.uk/research/framework/

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