Introduction to the International Handbook on Responsible Innovation. A Global Resource

Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) organizations are the ones that develop a set of capabilities that contribute to create short- and long-term sustainability values inside and outside the boundaries of BoP ecosystems. Capabilities have an important role in BoP organizations’ strategies that aim to solve BoP issues. Notwithstanding its developments, BoP research still lacks theoretical contributions for the analysis of organizations. We suggest special attention to the need of advancing knowledge on capabilities of BoP organizations because this field is scattered and fragmented, misinterpreted, and still underdeveloped in the literature. We oriented our research formulating and seeking answers to our main question on what are the capabilities needed to enable organizations to create sustainability values in BoP ecosystems? We conducted an integrative review of BoP research for the period from 1998 to 2019, and we found 22 key capabilities of BoP organizations. We organized the capabilities into four major categories including BoP Responsible Consumption, BoP Responsible Business Model, BoP Responsible Management, and BoP Responsible Innovation. We advanced propositions and discussions regarding the capabilities and major categories’ popularity, interdependence and combination, short- and long-term temporal functions, sustainability roles, and effectiveness to address BoP issues. Our article organizes the field of capabilities of BoP organizations; advances contributions and implications for management, organizations, and policymaking; and opens fruitful avenues for future research.

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Responsible innovation, anticipation and responsiveness: case studies of algorithms in decision support in justice and security, and an exploration of potential, unintended, undesirable, higher-order effects

AI and Ethics ◽

10.1007/s43681-021-00063-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marc Steen ◽

Tjerk Timan ◽

Ibo van de Poel

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Case Studies ◽

Personal Data ◽

Higher Order ◽

Popular Media ◽

Responsible Innovation ◽

Order Effects ◽

Key Dimensions ◽

Higher Order Effects

AbstractThe collection and use of personal data on citizens in the design and deployment of algorithms in the domain of justice and security is a sensitive topic. Values like fairness, autonomy, privacy, accuracy, transparency and property are at stake. Negative examples of algorithms that propagate or exacerbate biases, inequalities or injustices have received ample attention, both in academia and in popular media. To supplement this view, we will discuss two positive examples of Responsible Innovation (RI): the design and deployment of algorithms in decision support, with good intentions and careful approaches. We then explore potential, unintended, undesirable, higher-order effects of algorithms—effects that may occur despite good intentions and careful approaches. We do that by engaging with anticipation and responsiveness, two key dimensions of Responsible Innovation. We close the paper with proposing a framework and a series of tentative recommendations to promote anticipation and responsiveness in the design and deployment of algorithms in decision support in the domain of justice and security.

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Analysing acceptability of E-rickshaw as a public transport innovation in Delhi: A responsible innovation perspective

Technological Forecasting and Social Change ◽

10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120908 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 170 ◽

pp. 120908

Author(s):

Dr Rajbeer Singh ◽

Shilpa Mishra ◽

Krishna Tripathi

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Responsible Innovation

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Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission

Science Technology & Human Values ◽

10.1177/0162243921999100 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 016224392199910

Author(s):

Nina Frahm ◽

Tess Doezema ◽

Sebastian Pfotenhauer

Keyword(s):

European Commission ◽

Global Governance ◽

International Organizations ◽

New Technologies ◽

Responsible Innovation ◽

Democratic Deficit ◽

Major Barrier ◽

Societal Participation ◽

New Vision ◽

Governance Institutions

Long presented as a universal policy-recipe for social prosperity and economic growth, the promise of innovation seems to be increasingly in question, giving way to a new vision of progress in which society is advanced as a central enabler of technoeconomic development. Frameworks such as “Responsible” or “Mission-oriented” Innovation, for example, have become commonplace parlance and practice in the governance of the innovation–society nexus. In this paper, we study the dynamics by which this “social fix” to technoscience has gained legitimacy in institutions of global governance by investigating recent projects at two international organizations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Commission, to mainstream “Responsible Innovation” frameworks and instruments across countries. Our analysis shows how the turn to societal participation in both organizations relies on a new deficit logic—a democratic deficit of innovation—that frames a lack of societal engagement in innovation governance as a major barrier to the uptake and dissemination of new technologies. These deficit politics enable global governance institutions to present “Responsible Innovation” frameworks as the solution and to claim authority over the coproduction of particular forms of democracy and innovation as intertwined pillars of a market-liberal international order.

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Mobilizing the private sector for responsible innovation in neurotechnology

Nature Biotechnology ◽

10.1038/s41587-021-00947-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer ◽

Nina Frahm ◽

David Winickoff ◽

David Benrimoh ◽

Judy Illes ◽

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Keyword(s):

Private Sector ◽

Responsible Innovation

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Responsible innovation and social innovation: toward an integrative research framework

International Journal of Social Economics ◽

10.1108/ijse-10-2018-0517 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 46 (6) ◽

pp. 742-755 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Karsten Bolz ◽

Anne de Bruin

Keyword(s):

Social Innovation ◽

Field Research ◽

Responsible Innovation ◽

Systematic Research ◽

Content Type ◽

Policy Practice ◽

Integrative Framework ◽

Integrative Research ◽

Conceptual Paper ◽

Innovation Study

PurposeResponsible innovation (RI) and social innovation (SI) are two fields of innovation study experiencing burgeoning policy, practice and research interest. Despite this rapid rise in popularity, the scholarly literature in these two related areas of innovation study remains quite separate, stymieing the growth of shared research insights. The purpose of this paper is to propose a pragmatic, process-based framework that lends itself to advancing systematic research in both fields while retaining their distinct identities.Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual paper outlines an analogy-inspired framework that builds on the logical thinking put forward by Philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine in 1962. It focusses on key processes that cross-cut both fields.FindingsReflexivity, collaboration and design are identified as three broad core processes that span both the RI and SI fields and form the basis of an integrative framework that highlights the scope for cross-field research pollination.Originality/valueThe literature that draws these two fields together is virtually non-existent. The paper uses analogy to facilitate awareness of the parallels between these two areas of innovation study. The integrative framework put forward in the paper is of value for advancing cumulative research in innovation fields of critical importance to the society.

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