Building Interactive Communication Tools to Support Interdisciplinary Responsible Innovation

Recent science policy encourages the installation of Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) practices, which should help solve grand societal challenges and be more readily adopted by society. RRI may be implemented by setting up interdisciplinary innovation development teams, bringing together...

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Main Authors: Steven Flipse, Joric Oude Vrielink, Maarten van der Sanden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP) 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Innovation Management
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Online Access:https://journalsojs3.fe.up.pt/index.php/jim/article/view/303
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Summary:Recent science policy encourages the installation of Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) practices, which should help solve grand societal challenges and be more readily adopted by society. RRI may be implemented by setting up interdisciplinary innovation development teams, bringing together technical and non-technical experts from various disciplines and backgrounds, enabling engineers to let their work become inspired by – or even partly co-shaped by – societal insights and viewpoints, while societal actors get acquainted with techno-scientific context. We developed a Decision Support Tool to support interdisciplinary innovation teams, that visualizes innovation project performance and success chances. It supports communication and collaboration in interdisciplinary teams by proposing practical improvement areas, based on shared expertise, including socio-ethical, societal, economic and management related aspects. Still, further investigation is needed to learn how such a tool can be used to systematically integrate RRI in practice, to harness its full innovative potential.
ISSN:2183-0606