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Reviewing responsible research and innovation: lessons for a sustainable innovation research agenda?

In: Handbook of Sustainable Innovation

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  • Eefje Cuppen
  • Elisabeth van de Grift
  • Udo Pesch

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Responsible research and innovation (RRI) has emerged as a policy concept over the past five years as a notion that explicitly aims to emphasize social and ethical issues of research and innovation. Based on a structured literature review, we assess how scholars deal with the concept of RRI in relation to notions of sustainability and sustainable development. This chapter identifies the features of RRI that are relevant for sustainable innovation and discusses how insights from RRI literature can support further development of a sustainable innovation research agenda. We show that RRI literature has a strong focus on process rather than outcome, and a focus on change within systems rather than change of systems. RRI can contribute to the sustainable innovation research agenda by its emphasis on normative dimensions of innovation, and second, through its attention to individual responsibility and thereby the role of agency in innovation.

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  • Eefje Cuppen & Elisabeth van de Grift & Udo Pesch, 2019. "Reviewing responsible research and innovation: lessons for a sustainable innovation research agenda?," Chapters, in: Frank Boons & Andrew McMeekin (ed.), Handbook of Sustainable Innovation, chapter 8, pages 142-164, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Rödl, Malte B. & Boons, Frank & Spekkink, Wouter, 2022. "From responsible to responsive innovation: A systemic and historically sensitive approach to innovation processes," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).

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