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Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry: From Ethical Acceptability to Social Desirability

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Manufacturing and Services Sectors

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The purpose of this chapter is to provide a synthesis of the current body of knowledge on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as an emerging paradigm and a novel approach to governing science and innovation with the aim of making them ethically acceptable and socially desirable. The text focuses on RRI relevance not only as a new framework for research and innovation policy but also as a novel expression of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in enterprises engaged in technological innovation. Theoretical and practical issues concerning the link between RRI and CSR are studied. Additionally, an approach based on Future-Oriented Technology Assessment is proposed as a practical mechanism of advancing RRI in an enterprise or a whole sector.

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    i.e. mentioning “Responsible Research and Innovation” in the title or abstract. When the search is expanded to include the “Responsible Innovation” phrase the query returns more than twice as many items (587). It was decided, however, to use the narrower search in order to exactly measure the proliferation of the RRI term and not the notion of responsibility in science and innovation in general.

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Nazarko, Ł. (2019). Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry: From Ethical Acceptability to Social Desirability. In: Golinska-Dawson, P., Spychała, M. (eds) Corporate Social Responsibility in the Manufacturing and Services Sectors. EcoProduction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33851-9_7

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