Responsible innovation and public engagement: what we can learn from the case of nanotechnology

Richard A.L. Jones

International Handbook on Responsible Innovation

A Global Resource

Edited by René von Schomberg and Jonathan Hankins

The Handbook constitutes a global resource for the fast growing interdisciplinary research and policy communities addressing the challenge of driving innovation towards socially desirable outcomes. This book brings together well-known authors from the US, Europe and Asia who develop conceptual and regional perspectives on responsible innovation as well as exploring the prospects for further implementation of responsible innovation in emerging technological practices ranging from agriculture and medicine, to nanotechnology and robotics. The emphasis is on the socio-economic and normative dimensions of innovation including issues of social risk and sustainability.

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Published in print:: 26 Jul 2019

ISBN:: 9781784718855

eISBN:: 9781784718862

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862

Pages:: c 592

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Chapter 23: Responsible innovation and public engagement: what we can learn from the case of nanotechnology

Richard A.L. Jones

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Published:: 26 July 2019

Category:: Handbook Chapter

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00033

Pages:: 355–366 (12 total)

Collection: Social and Political Science 2019

Abstract

Nanotechnology achieved prominence in the 2000s as an emerging area of technoscience, with some far-reaching claims being made about its potential societal and economic impact, which prompted both excitement and anxiety. This coincided with a period of experimentation in science policy, with new views on the roles of public engagement arising and the emergence of the notion of responsible research and innovation. This history is reviewed, with a particular focus on the UK, concluding with some reflections on the future of the responsible research and innovation agenda in an environment of slower economic growth.

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