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Making sense of the ‘Human’ in human-centered AI: an Arendtian perspective Open
In recent years, ‘human-centered artificial intelligence’ (HCAI) has emerged as a prominent framing device in the societal debate on the implications of AI. By adopting this phrase, AI ethics discourses make an appeal to the notion of the …
ELSA Labs for responsible AI: a novel approach for addressing ethical, legal, social issues Open
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our society, offering remarkable opportunities but also raising significant Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) that should be addressed for responsible development. Some existing …
View article: Embedding RRI in competitive environments: stakeholders, structures, and systemic tensions
Embedding RRI in competitive environments: stakeholders, structures, and systemic tensions Open
This editorial introduces a special issue examining whether and to what extent Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles can take root within organisations operating in competitive environments. Drawing on Brecht's ‘food first a…
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) ethics is undergoing a practical shift towards putting principles into design practices in developing responsible AI. While this practical turn is essential, this paper highlights its potential risk of overly f…
New Encounters Between Life and Technology: Simondon and the Case of Synthetic Biology Open
How to understand new encounters between the living and the technological? Exemplary of such new encounters are the biotechnological creations of synthetic biology, where life and technology are increasingly intertwined in complex and inti…
Responsible innovation in start-ups: entrepreneurial perspectives and formalisation of social responsibility Open
Start-ups are significant incubators of innovation. Notwithstanding, they have largely been ignored in the field of Responsible Innovation (RI). To address this shortcoming, the social responsibility for start-ups model (SRSM) for the embe…
Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) for AI: An assessment tool for Agri-food Open
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to emerge in various sectors, ethical frameworks and guidelines aim to contribute to responsible AI development. While AI ethics has gained prominence in addressing broader societal concerns, exist…
Responsible innovation across societal sectors: a practice perspective on Quadruple Helix collaboration Open
To address societal challenges, research and innovation approaches, involving a wide range of actors, are increasingly promoted by policy communities. This paper explores the practice of Quadruple Helix collaborations for responsible innov…
1. Ecological Hermeneutic Phenomenology Open
This chapter sets out to develop a phenomenological method to study technology in a way that moves beyond the one-sided essentialist or ‘ontology-only’ approach developed by Heidegger, as well as the ‘empiricist’ or ‘thing-only’ approach f…
Start doing the right thing: Indicators for socially responsible start-ups and investors Open
This paper explores the gap in the literature on social responsibility guidance for start-ups and start-up investors. It begins by evaluating research conducted in two different fields (namely, socially responsible investment (SRI) and res…
Path creation as a discursive process: A study of discussion starters in the field of solar fuels Open
When a technology is seen as the right solution to a recognized problem, the development of alternative technologies comes under threat. To secure much-needed resources, proponents of alternative technologies must, in these conditions, res…
Materiality Versus Metabolism in the Hybrid World: Towards a Dualist Concept of Materialism as Limit of Post-humanism in the Technical Era Open
The point of departure of this article is the trend towards hybridisation in new technology development, which makes classical dichotomies between machines, human life and the environment obsolete and leads to the post-human world we live …
Epistemic inclusion: a key challenge for global RRI Open
Ten years after introducing the RRI concept, a reflection on its key ambitions seems called for, now that RRI enters the global arena. This paper focues on the key challenge that RRI is currently facing: epistemic inclusion. From the begin…
View article: From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation
From experimentation to structural change: fostering institutional entrepreneurship for public engagement in research and innovation Open
Many researchers experiment with participatory settings to increase public engagement in research and innovation (R&I). Because of their temporary nature, it often remains unclear how such participatory experiments can contribute to struct…
What Does it Mean to Mimic Nature? A Typology for Biomimetic Design Open
In an effort to produce new and more sustainable technologies, designers have turned to nature in search of inspiration and innovation. Biomimetic design (from the Greek bios , life, mimesis , imitation) is the conscious imitation of biolo…
12 Climate-Smart Agriculture Diffusion within Smallholder Agriculture Context: The Role of Business Models of Sustainable Entrepreneurs Open
Climate-smart agriculture technological innovations (CSATIs) provide needed benefits within base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) contexts, where smallholder farmers are vulnerable to climate change. Yet, the diffusion of CSATIs is slowed by a range o…
View article: Strategies to Overcome Collaborative Innovation Barriers: The Role of Training to Foster Skills to Navigate Quadruple Helix Innovations
Strategies to Overcome Collaborative Innovation Barriers: The Role of Training to Foster Skills to Navigate Quadruple Helix Innovations Open
Quadruple Helix Collaborations (QHCs) is a cooperation model in which industry, government, academia, and the public interact to innovate. This paper analyses the impact of a training intervention to provide specific knowledge, skills, and…
The Normative and Social Dimensions of the Transition towards a Responsible, Circular Bio-Based Economy Open
This chapter reflects on the normative and social dimensions of the transition to a circular bio-based economy (CBE). It first argues that current practices in a CBE are framed within the market or economic logic and miss the normative dim…
Stop re-inventing the wheel: or how ELSA and RRI can align Open
Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) originated in the 4th European Research Framework Programme (1994) and responsible research and innovation (RRI) from the EC research agenda in 2010. ELSA has received renewed attention in European …
It takes two to tango: toward a political concept of responsible innovation Open
This paper proposes a political concept of Responsible Innovation (RI). As a first step, we diagnose the RI discourse with a conceptual ambiguity, struggling to accommodate both private and public interests. To address this ambiguity, we d…
Participation in monitoring and evaluation for RRI: a review of procedural approaches developing monitoring and evaluation mechanisms Open
[EN] Three arguments support the involvement of actors in the design and implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). First, it strengthens the evaluation; second, it allows taking ad…
A model of social responsibility for start-ups: developing a cross-fertilisation of responsible innovation, the lean start-up approach, and the quadruple helix approach Open
In this paper, we cross-fertilise responsible innovation (RI), the Lean Start-up approach (LSA) and the Quadruple Helix approach (QH) within one model: the social responsibility for start-ups model (SRSM). SRSM aims to instil responsibilit…
The Earth Means the World to Me: Earth- and World-Interest in Times of Climate Change Open
This contribution considers the world-historical significance of climate change. Climate change unmasks the stability of the living and acting in the world of human and nonhuman existence and confronts it with its living and acting on Eart…