scholarly journals Responsible Innovation in Business: Perceptions, Evaluation Practices and Lessons Learnt

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1826
Author(s):  
Agata Gurzawska
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Evaluation Practices ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
And Control

This study derives from the results of the European Union (EU)-funded SATORI (Stakeholders Acting Together on the ethical impact assessment of Research and Innovation) project. It seeks to gain insights about, firstly, integration of the responsible innovation (RI) concept into companies’ practices; and secondly, various evaluation approaches to companies’ innovation practices that consider responsibility, ethics and sustainability. Twenty four interviews with companies and business experts were conducted to understand the ways in which companies apply principles, frameworks and evaluation practices related to RI. The results emphasize the confined character of companies’ RI practices in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and ethics. Moreover, the results indicate two main types of RI evaluation and control among companies, namely assessment and guidance. This paper discusses theoretical and practical implications of discrepancies in understanding and evaluating RI for large corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Consequently, new approaches to RI in business are proposed, calling for strategic and responsible innovation management.

scholarly journals A Taxonomy of Crisis Management Functions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5147
Author(s):  
Todor Tagarev ◽  
Valeri Ratchev
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Crisis Communications ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Risk Reduction Measures ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
Management Functions

The management of crises triggered by natural or manmade events requires a concerted effort of various actors crossing institutional and geographic boundaries. Technological advances allow to make crisis management more effective, but innovation is hindered by dispersed and often disconnected knowledge on the lessons learned, gaps, and solutions. Taxonomies enable the search for information of potential interest. This article presents a taxonomy of crisis management functions, designed on the basis of a conceptual model integrating the concepts of hazard, vulnerability, risk, and community, and the main consequence- and management-based concepts. At its highest level, the taxonomy includes ten functional areas: preparatory (mitigation, capability development, and strategic adaptiveness), operational (protection, response, and recovery), and common (crisis communications and information management; command, control, and coordination; logistics; and security management). The taxonomy facilitates the navigation of online platforms and the matching of needs and solutions. It has broader applications, e.g., for structuring the assessment of the societal impact of crisis management solutions and as a framework for a comprehensive assessment of disaster risk reduction measures. While the taxonomy was developed within a research and innovation project supported by the European Union, it reflects and is compatible with established international concepts and classification schemes, and is thus applicable by a wider international community.

scholarly journals How to Evaluate Collaboration within Research and Innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Ann Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
Ongoing Evaluation ◽  
Political Decisions

To improve and strengthen regional development is often subject of political decisions. This is the situation within the European Union, to increase innovation in SMEs. SMEs need access to knowledge, competence and collaboration, in order to increase their opportunities to develop competitiveness in products higher up in the value chain. The increasing rate of change in society also creates needs of decreasing the time from knowledge development to ready products to the market. Ongoing evaluation is prevalent in many research and development projects today in order to follow up the intended results. The ongoing evaluation could contribute to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a specific innovation project by highlight areas of improvement and needs of development.

Industry Self-Regulation in the US and in the EU

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Tijana Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Private Regulation ◽  
Independent Evaluation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Regulatory Instruments ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
And Control

This chapter analyzes the regulatory environment with implications for digital bullying with a specific focus on the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). Relevant regulatory stakeholders are explained as well as the process of self-regulation vs. traditional, command-and-control legislation and the benefits and downsides of each in the context of digital bullying. Self-regulation is distinguished from private regulation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) and literature that compares differences in self-regulatory traditions in the US and EU is examined, together with discussions on co-regulation. The term “alternative regulatory instruments” or ARIs (Lievens, 2010) is proposed and the author specifies how the terms “self-regulation” and “private regulation” are used in the book and subsequent chapters. It is argued that few companies examined in this book have been part of traditional self-regulatory initiatives but have rather adopted and developed policies via industry best practices. The issue of scarcity of independent evaluation, especially from children’s perspective, is raised, and how such a state of affairs reflects upon children’s rights.

scholarly journals RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION – A CONCEPTUAL CONTRIBUTION TO THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (0) ◽  
pp. 342-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Nazarko
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Responsible Research And Innovation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Societal Actors ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Responsible Research

The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross-cutting theme for the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. RRI may be understood as a process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new concept. Mapping of RRI dimensions and its theoretical assumptions is performed. Bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on RRI is carried out. The analysis of RRI-related projects is conducted. The attempt is made to clarify what RRI means for an enterprise in practical terms and what makes an innovation project in an enterprise a responsible one. Finally, a proposal for a closer interchange between RRI and Technology Assessment discourses is made together with an argument for a more extensive use of future-oriented methods that increase epistemic horizons of an innovating organisation.

scholarly journals The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Maines da Silva ◽  
Claudia Cristina Bitencourt ◽  
Kadígia Faccin ◽  
Tatiana Iakovleva
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Market Launch

This paper contributes to the sustainability debate by analyzing the inclusion dimension in the responsible research and innovation (RRI) process. RRI is claimed to be an important tool for addressing global challenges and achieving sustainable development goals. While stakeholder involvement is considered to be imperative for the RRI process, there is little empirical evidence on (1) who the stakeholders participating in the RRI process are; (2) when stakeholders participate; (3) how stakeholders’ inclusion contributes to the sustainable innovation process; and (4) who the agents are who orchestrate stakeholders’ inclusion. This paper addresses the issue of stakeholder involvement through the lens of innovation management literature by attempting to link the innovation process to the responsibility concept. We employed a meta-synthesis of empirical studies of RRI to develop a deep understanding of stakeholder inclusion. After screening 139 articles, we identified seven empirical papers highlighting RRI process, mainly from projects nested in academic contexts. The findings indicate that multiple stakeholders are included at a late stage of the innovation process—during the market launch. To some extent, this allows for the adaptation of the solution, but such adaptations are limited in nature. This study also identifies the agents who stimulate stakeholder inclusion as being mainly academic researchers and researchers linked to multi-institutional projects. Our findings indicate that innovation management thinking is rarely applied in the governance of research and innovation projects ‘born’ in academia. We suggest enhancing RRI theoretical development by incorporating elements of innovation management such as early inclusion of users in the innovation process. For practitioners, this means an extension of the design space to allow early stakeholder inclusion in the innovation process to ensure responsible outcomes. We also identified avenues for future research. There is a need to systematically investigate which tools and frameworks for deliberate stakeholder inclusion are relevant at the various stages of the innovation and development process.

scholarly journals Responsible Innovation for Life: Five Challenges Agriculture Offers for Responsible Innovation in Agriculture and Food, and the Necessity of an Ethics of Innovation

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 673-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Gremmen ◽  
Vincent Blok ◽  
Bernice Bovenkerk
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Agricultural Ethics ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
Responsible Research

Abstract In this special issue we will investigate, from the perspective of agricultural ethics (e.g. animal welfare, agricultural and food ethics, environmental ethics etc.) the potential to develop a Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approach to agriculture, and the limitations to such an enterprise. RRI is an emerging field in the European research and innovation (R&I) policy context that aims to balance economic, socio-cultural and environmental aspects in innovation processes. Because technological innovations can contribute significantly to the solution of societal challenges like climate change or food security, but can also have negative societal consequences, it is assumed that social and ethical aspects should be considered during the R&I process. For this reason, the emerging concept of RRI calls for ethical reflection on the nature, scope and applicability of responsibility and innovation in innovation practices in general, and the way social–ethical issues can be applied and addressed in agriculture.

scholarly journals Responsible Research and Innovation in Enterprises: Benefits, Barriers and the Problem of Assessment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Nazarko
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Responsible Research And Innovation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
White Spots ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Responsible Research

In the paper, the author takes stock of the conceptual reflection and empirical studies described in the current scientific literature on responsible innovation in the context of the emergence of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) concept. RRI has been promoted in the European Union as a part of the Europe 2020 strategy with the objective of making research and innovation more sustainable and inclusive. As more than half of the EU’s firms declare conducting innovation activities RRI problematic becomes more relevant than ever. There remain many open questions, unresolved dilemmas and empirical white spots that call for more research in this field. This paper’s main focus is the problem of RRI acceptance as a global framework for responsible innovation and the scarcity of suitable instruments that may help industry understand and adopt this concept. The main contribution of this paper are: the critical analysis of the RRI concept and its implications for industry, proposing a concept of RRI index for innovating enterprises.

scholarly journals Inclusiveness, Equity, Consistency, and Flexibility as Guiding Criteria for Enabling Transdisciplinary Collaboration: Lessons From a European Project on Nature-Based Solutions and Urban Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Basta ◽  
Eva Kunseler ◽  
Christine Wamsler ◽  
Alexander van der Jagt ◽  
Francesc Baró ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Evaluation Strategy ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

The structural research programmes of the European Union dedicated to advance the sustainability sciences are increasingly permeated by the notion of transdisciplinarity (TD). A growing body of literature residing at the intersection of research methodology and sustainability studies can guide researchers to adopt appropriate research approaches in their projects. However, how to implement the transdisciplinary approach in multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder projects that develop in different countries for several years is still relatively undocumented. This study seeks to fill this gap by sharing the experience of a group of researchers and stakeholders involved in the Horizon 2020 research and innovation project Nature-Based Urban Innovation (NATURVATION). The article discusses the monitoring and evaluation strategy that employed four criteria of transdisciplinary research quality as “reflexive devices” to enable a systematic reporting on the project's most important collaborative activities. By examining how the four criteria captured transdisciplinary quality, new insights were produced for improving this monitoring and evaluation strategy for future transdisciplinary research, allowing a number of concrete recommendations to be formulated.

scholarly journals Responsible Research and Innovation in Enterprises: Benefits, Barriers and the Problem of Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Nazarko
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Responsible Research And Innovation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
White Spots ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Responsible Research

In the paper, the author takes stock of the conceptual reflection and empirical studies described in the current scientific literature on responsible innovation in the context of the emergence of the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) concept. RRI has been promoted in the European Union as a part of the Europe 2020 strategy with the objective of making research and innovation more sustainable and inclusive. As more than half of the EU’s firms declare they are conducting innovation activities, RRI problems are more relevant than ever. There remain many open questions, unresolved dilemmas and empirical white spots that call for more research in this field. This paper’s focus is the problem of RRI acceptance as a global framework for responsible innovation and the scarcity of suitable instruments that may help industries understand and adopt this concept. The main contributions of this paper include critical analysis of the RRI concept and its implications for industry, proposing a concept of an RRI index for innovating enterprises.

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