Responsible innovation

Science and innovation have the power to transform our lives and the world we live in - for better or worse - in ways that often transcend borders and generations: from the innovation of complex financial products that played such an important role in the recent financial crisis to current proposals to intentionally engineer our Earth's climate. The promise of science and innovation brings with it ethical dilemmas and impacts which are often uncertain and unpredictable: it is often only once these have emerged that we feel able to control them. How do we undertake science and innovation res.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Why Responsible Innovation?; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Innovation in the Twenty-First Century; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 How Can We Innovate?-Innovation as a Process; 1.3 Where Could We Innovate?-Innovation Strategy; 1.4 Reframing Innovation; 1.5 Reframing Challenges for Twenty-First Century Innovation; 1.5.1 The Spaghetti Challenge; 1.5.2 The Sappho Challenge-Bringing Stakeholders into the Frame; 1.5.3 The Sustainability Challenge-Innovation for Sustainable Development; 1.6 Emergent Properties of the New Innovation Environment

Chapter 2 A Framework for Responsible Innovation2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Context: the Imperative for Responsible Innovation; 2.2.1 Re-evaluating the Social Contract for Science and Innovation; 2.2.2 The Responsibility Gap; 2.2.3 The Dilemma of Control; 2.2.4 Products and Purposes: the Democratic Governance of Intent; 2.3 Locating Responsible Innovation within Prospective Dimensions of Responsibility; 2.4 Four Dimensions of Responsible Innovation; 2.5 Responsible Innovation: from Principles to Practice; 2.5.1 Some Experiments in Responsible Innovation

2.6 Toward the Future: Building Capacity for Res…