From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design

Bernd Carsten Stahl*, Simisola Akintoye, Lise Bitsch, Berit Bringedal, Damian Eke, Michele Farisco, Karin Grasenick, Manuel Guerrero, William Knight, Tonii Leach, Sven Nyholm, George Ogoh, Achim Rosemann, Arleen Salles, Julia Trattnig, Inga Ulnicane

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)175-198
Number of pages24
JournalJournal of Responsible Innovation
Volume8
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Aug 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This project/research has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under the Grant Agreements No. 720270 (HBP SGA1), 785907 (HBP SGA2), 945539 (HBP SGA3) and the Framework Partnership Agreement No. 650003.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

  • European Research Infrastructure
  • Human Brain Project
  • responsibility by design
  • Responsible Research and Innovation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Strategy and Management
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

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