Responsible Research and Innovation: From Concepts to Practices

Responsible Research and Innovation provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the European Commission’s Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) framework, including discussion of both the meaning and aims of the concept, and of its practical application.

As a governance framework for research and innovation, RRI involves four key perspectives: ethical, economic/business, legal and governance and political. The book is organised into chapters covering these different dimensions. The authors provide different viewpoints on these aspects, in order to offer guidance from experts in the field, while at the same time acknowledging the interpretative openness of the RRI frameworks.

Robert Gianni is a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po Paris and Ethics Expert at the European Commission. The current aim of his research is to critically scrutinise the different registers of the justification of technological innovation and their repercussions within society.

John Pearson is Ethics and Research Integrity Policy Officer at the Free University of Brussels. He has previously held positions at the KU Leuven and at the University of Namur. His research interests include Responsible Research and Innovation, deliberative democracy and republican political theory.

Bernard Reber is a philosopher, Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the Political Research Center of Sciences Po, Paris. He has been a member and Deputy Director of the CNRS Research Center, Meaning Ethics and Society, based at University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne, Paris.