From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design

Publication date

2021

Authors

Stahl, Bernd Carsten
Akintoye, Simisola
Bitsch, Lise
Bringedal, Berit
Eke, Damian
Farisco, Michele
Grasenick, Karin
Guerrero, Manuel
Knight, William
Leach, Tonii

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Abstract

Drawing on more than eight years working to implement Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the Human Brain Project, a large EU-funded research project that brings together neuroscience, computing, social sciences, and the humanities, and one of the largest investments in RRI in one project, this article offers insights on RRI and explores its possible future. We focus on the question of how RRI can have long-lasting impact and persist beyond the time horizon of funded projects. For this purpose, we suggest the concept of ‘responsibility by design’ which is intended to encapsulate the idea of embedding RRI in research and innovation in a way that makes it part of the fabric of the resulting outcomes, in our case, a distributed European Research Infrastructure.

Keywords

European Research Infrastructure, Human Brain Project, Responsible Research and Innovation, responsibility by design, Strategy and Management, Information Systems and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation

Citation

Stahl, B C, Akintoye, S, Bitsch, L, Bringedal, B, Eke, D, Farisco, M, Grasenick, K, Guerrero, M, Knight, W, Leach, T, Nyholm, S, Ogoh, G, Rosemann, A, Salles, A, Trattnig, J & Ulnicane, I 2021, 'From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design', Journal of Responsible Innovation, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 175-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2021.1955613