Print Email Facebook Twitter Responsible innovation in the private sector: Foreword Title Responsible innovation in the private sector: Foreword Author Scholten, V.E. Blok, V. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Values Technology and Innovation Date 2015-12-09 Abstract Responsible Innovation is an emerging concept concerning the governance of socio-ethical aspects of research and innovation practices. Von Schomberg for instance defines responsible innovation as a ‘transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products (in order to allow a proper embedding of scientific and technological advances in our society)’ (Von Schomberg, 2013, p. 19). It originally emerged in the context of research policies as a result of societal concerns regarding publicly funded research in controversial technologies (cf. Stilgoe et al., 2013). Emerging technologies such as nanotechnologies, big data, alternative energy production and genomics have a history of dispute and societal debate about their ethical desirability, and raises the question whether public funding in research in the field of these controversial technological is political legitimate or not (Collingridge, 1980; Groves, 2006). To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:496c52e3-71ac-465c-98ae-dbac5a065f59 ISSN 0021-9568 Source https://doi.org/10.3920/JCNS2015.x006 Source Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, 15 (2), 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2015 The Author(s)This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Files PDF 325418.pdf 4.59 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:496c52e3-71ac-465c-98ae-dbac5a065f59/datastream/OBJ/view