Abstract
There is now almost a decade of experience with RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation), including a growing emphasis on RRI in industry. Based on our experiences in the EU-funded project PRISMA, we find that the companies we engaged could be motivated to do RRI, but often only after we first shifted initial assumptions and strategies. Accordingly, we formulate six lessons we learned in the expectation that they will be relevant both for RRI in industry as well as for the future of RRI more broadly. These lessons are: (1) Strategize for stakeholder engagement; (2) Broaden current assessments; (3) Place values center stage; (4) Experiment for responsiveness; (5) Monitor RRI progress; and (6) Aim for shared value.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 697-707 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Responsible Innovation |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 10 Jul 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Funding
The PRISMA project has received funding from the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 710059. The opinions expressed in this article reflect only the authors? view and in no way reflect the European Commission?s opinions. Parts of this article have been published as deliverable 3.3 from the PRISMA project. All authors have participated in the PRISMA project. Ibo van de Poel has written the first version of this contribution, which has been subsequently drafted by the other authors. All other authors have contributed with their ideas and have read and commented on earlier versions of this article. We thank the reviewers and the editor for very useful comments and suggestions.
Keywords
- industry
- Responsible innovation
- shared value
- stakeholder engagement
- technology assessment
- trust
