Piloting RRI in Industry: A Roadmap for Transformative Technologies (PRISMA)
- Project team:
Maia, Maria João (Project leader); Christopher Coenen; Armin Grunwald; Julia Hahn
- Funding:
European Commission, Horizon 2020, Develop the governance for the advancement of responsible research and innovation by all stakeholders, which is sensitive to society needs and demands and promote an ethics framework for research and innovation (H2020-EU.5.f.)
- Start date:
2016
- End date:
2019
- Project partners:
Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands (Coordinator); Rijksinstituut Voor Volksgezondheiden Milieu, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands; Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale (AIRI), Italy; The University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- Research group:
Project description
The PRISMA project aims to develop and test a roadmap that will help industry to implement Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in their innovation processes within the framework of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy. This will enable them to address uncertainties and risks, as well as public and ethical concerns surrounding transformative technologies. Furthermore, the project aims to have the roadmap adopted by companies by targeting industry associations, CSR and branch organizations, as well as governments and civil society organizations.
Eight RRI pilot cases in industry, involving both private firms and public-private partnerships, will be conducted and evaluated. The pilots will take place in some of the major industries in Europe. Some of the pilot cases will focus on emerging technologies (nanotechnology, synthetic biology, Internet of Things), and others on cases that exemplify the transformation of long-established technologies (materials, cars). These will provide evidence about how the RRI approach and inclusion of the gender dimension can improve innovation processes and their outcomes for transformative technologies.
The evidence from the pilots will be used to develop an RRI-CSR roadmap that will allow others in industry to embark on a similar path. The roadmap will consist of:
- a set of RRI tools for industry with instructions and recommendations about when and how to use them in relation to the level of risk associated with the products/processes in the specific industrial sectors;
- approaches and tools for including the gender and diversity dimensions in research and development;
- principles for stakeholder involvement at different stages of the value chain;
- ethical principles and guidelines;
- recommendations for integrating RRI in CSR;
- best practice examples as models for responsible innovation (on the basis of pilots);
- added value for companies (competitiveness).
ITAS will be responsible for one of the aforementioned pilots. This will provide evidence about how the RRI approach, and especially the opening up of the innovation process to social actors, can improve the development process and the quality of the final outcomes of the research. This evidence will be obtained by assessing the pilot project and systematically comparing it with "normal" projects within the company.
ITAS will also be responsible for developing and organizing five stakeholder dialogues. One of the main aims of the dialogues is to receive feedback for the roadmap while stimulating exchanges between the various actors. These stakeholder dialogues will also concern the pilot projects. This will enable direct contact and feedback during the actual innovation process. Some key issues in these dialogues will be risks, gender issues, transparency and products that reflect societal values.
PRISMA web site: http://www.rri-prisma.eu
Events
- CEN Standard: CWA 17796:2021 - Responsibility-by-design - Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly, 26.10.2021, online
- CEN Workshop “Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly”, 21.04.2021, online
- Book “Assessment of Responsible Innovation: Methods and Practices”, published November 12, 2020 by Routledge
- PRISMA final event “Innovation meets Sustainability & Responsibility: The PRISMA Industrial Roadmap”, 27.06.2019, Bruxelles
- Stakeholder Dialogue “A roadmap to foster social value in business, research and innovation strategies”, 30.-31.10.2018, Milan
- Seminar “Innovation Society Can Trust”, 07.06.2018, London
- Stakeholder Dialogue “Envisioning the future of transformative technologies”, 07.02.2018, Brussels
- Stakeholder Dialogue “SETTING THE AGENDA OF RRI IN INDUSTRY - focusing on nano and synthetic biology technologies”, 20.-21.11.2017, Berlin
- Workshop “The Future of Technology: Putting Responsible Innovation into Practice”, 12.04.17 - 13.04.17
Publications
Going beyond the status quo? A roadmap to innovate responsibly
2022, February 4. KI-SIGS Responsible Innovation, Ethical Innovation Hub from the Universität zu Lübeck (2022), Lübeck, Germany, February 4, 2022
Strategies to Innovate Responsibly
2021. 1st CoCoAI Project - Workshop (2021), Lübeck, Germany, September 7, 2021
CWA 17796 : Responsibility-by-design - Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly [Norm]
2021. Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN)
Supporting RRI uptake in industry : a qualitative and multi- criteria approach to analysing the costs and benefits of implementation
2020. Assessment of Responsible Innovation. Methods and Practices. Ed.: E. Yaghmaei, 117–144, Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429298998-8
Learning to do responsible innovation in industry: six lessons
2020. Journal of responsible innovation, 7 (3), 697–707. doi:10.1080/23299460.2020.1791506
Responsible research and innovation in industry
2019. Lecture Given in Campus Süd for the Visiting Student from Moscow State Technical University (2019), Karlsruhe, Germany, January 22, 2019
WP4 - Stakeholder dialogues
2019. Final Review Meeting, Europäische Kommission (2019), Brussels, Belgium, September 20, 2019
A Roadmap for the RRI uptake in the industrial context - A tool for strategy setting and RRI impact evaluation
2019. European Triple Helix Congress on Responsible Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ETHAC 2019), Thessaloniki, Greece, September 30–October 1, 2019
A Roadmap for the RRI uptake in the industrial context - a tool for strategy seeting and RRI impact evaluiation
2019. European Triple Helix Congress on Responsible Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ETHAC 2019), Thessaloniki, Greece, September 30–October 1, 2019
Responsible research and innovation: Analysing costs and benefits of RRI implementaion in industrial context
2019. 13th International Conference on Society & Materials (SAM 2019), Pisa, Italy, May 20–21, 2019
RRI in Industry. Synthesis report on the stakeholder dialogues of the PRISMA project
2018. TATuP: Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 27 (2), 77–79. doi:10.14512/tatup.27.2.77
Going beyond the usual: practices of innovation and responisibility in industry
2018. Critical engagement vs. technophobia: the risks of emerging technologies, Ljubljana, SLO, October 11-12, 2018, 13–14
Obstacles to RRI in synthetic biology
2018. 10th Annual S.NET Meeting (2018), Maastricht, Netherlands, June 25–27, 2018
Piloting RRI in industry: A roadmap for transformative technologies. Project overview and introduction to the interactive sessions
2018. Co-Creation Dialogue: A Roadmap to Foster Social Value in Business, Research and Innovation Strategies (2018), Milan, Italy, October 30–31, 2018
Piloting RRI in industry: A roadmap for transformative technologies. Project overview
2018. RRI and Future ‐ Making: Responsibility through Anticipation (2018), San Sebastian, Spain, September 10–14, 2018
Engaging with stakeholders - feedback from co-creation PRISMA events
2018. 10th Annual S.NET Meeting (2018), Maastricht, Netherlands, June 25–27, 2018
Piloting RRI in industry: A roadmap for transformative technologies. Project overview
2018. 10th Annual S.NET Meeting (2018), Maastricht, Netherlands, June 25–27, 2018
Going beyond the usual: practices of innovation and responisibility in industry
2018. Critical Engagement vs.Technophobia : The Risk of Emerging Technologies (2018), Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 11–12, 2018
Inovação na medicina do ponto de vista das ciências sociais
2017. PORTAL 2017 Criar Riqueza - Portugal na Alemanha (2017), Cologne, Germany, November 3–4, 2017
Contact
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
P.O. Box 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Germany
Tel.: +49 721 608-22249
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