The Fragility of Responsibility : Norway’s Transformative Agenda for Research, Innovation and Business / ed. by Giovanni De Grandis, Anne Blanchard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alm, Kristian, Contributor.

Bjørnerud, Erik, Contributor.

Blanchard, Anne, Contributor.

Blanchard, Anne, Editor.

Borgen, Svein Ole, Contributor.

De Grandis, Giovanni, Contributor.

De Grandis, Giovanni, Editor.

Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline D., Contributor.

Carson, Siri Granum, Contributor.

Iakovleva, Tatiana, Contributor.

Ingeborg Myhr, Anne, Contributor.

Kaiser, Matthias, Contributor.

Leclaire Karlsen, Heidi, Contributor.

Midttun, Atle, Contributor.

Nelhans, Gustaf, Contributor.

Oftedal, Elin M., Contributor.

Throne-Holst, Harald, Contributor.

Wittrock, Christian, Contributor.

Series:

De Gruyter Studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Series

De Gruyter Studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship , 2570-169X ; 9

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVIII, 280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Attempts to steer research, innovation and business in desirable directions have failed to meet expectations. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and responsible research and innovation (RRI) seem to be losing ground, while the challenges they sought to address remain. Despite their shortcomings, these concepts remind us of the need to take responsibility for what we as researchers and entrepreneurs bring into the world, and to keep questioning the given framework. Drawing from the experience of the AFINO project, a unique attempt to bring together RRI and CSR and to promote networks, learning and skills building in Norway, this book contextualises and explores the practical challenges of actualising responsible practices even in the propitious Norwegian context. Readers interested in RRI, CSR, transdisciplinarity, and in the governance of research and innovation will find extensive information and insights about the challenges of steering research and business practices towards desirable ends and how to address them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Contents

The authors

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Section 1: The emergence of responsibility

Chapter 1 The institutionalization of social responsibility in Norwegian business and research: moral progress, moral decay, or both?

Chapter 2 From value-freedom to responsible research and innovation? Post-normal and transdisciplinary pathways

Chapter 3 Norwegian engagement with RRI and the propagation of RRI by the Research Council of Norway

Section 2: Contexts of fragile responsibility

Chapter 4 The elusive transformation of research and innovation. The overlooked complexities of value alignment and joint responsibility

Chapter 5 Navigating tensions around RRI in higher education

Chapter 6 Companies squeezed between autocratic and democratic regimes

Section 3: Practices: fragile or robust?

Chapter 7 Including societal actors in R&D – Different expectations, different responsibilities

Chapter 8 Do you value responsible innovation?

Chapter 9 Has law and social science trivialised the concept and practice of whistleblowing in Norway 2007–2023?

Chapter 10 Acting on the Norwegian Transparency act: interpretation and implementation

Conclusion A sea change in science and technology ecologies? Prospects of socially responsible research and innovation towards 2030

List of figures

List of tables

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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ISBN:

9783111397719

3111397718

OCLC:

1482824201