Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation

Christian Wittrock is an organizational sociologist in the Innovation and Enterprise Development group at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He studies the intra- and inter organizational diffusion of innovations in and across multiple settings. He is currently also a PhD Fellow at Aarhus University, department of Business Development and Technology, Denmark.Ellen-Marie Forsberg is managing director at NORSUS Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Research. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy with a focus of applied ethics, built up the Oslo Research Group on Responsible Innovation and has led several RRI projects, including the Horizon 2020 RRI-Practice project reported on in this book. Auke Pols is a lecturer in responsible innovation and the ethics of technology at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group at Wageningen University. He has done research on ethical aspects of socio-technical transitions,particularly in the global South.Phil Macnaghten is a Professor in the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation (KTI) group at Wageningen University. He is author of Contested Natures and one of the leading scholars on responsible innovation and the governance of techno-visionary science. His current research focus is on responsible innovation, gene editing and the politics of anticipation.David Ludwig is an assistant professor in the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation (KTI) group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. His work combines philosophy and social studies of science in addressing epistemological, ontological, political dimensions of science in cross-cultural and global contexts.

• 1. About this report.- 2. General introduction to the RRI-Practice Study. - 3. Organizational Drivers for Responsible Research and Innovation.- 4. Organizational Barriers for Responsible Research and Innovation.- 5. Discussion of key findings in the organisational study.- 6. Overview of national discourse by country.- 7. How national contexts affect the RRI keys and dimensions.- 8. The who, why and how questions and the AIRR dimensions.- 9. Discussion and conclusion on the national comparison.