What is Responsible Innovation – And Why Should You Care?
Channel: Risk Bites
Date: 2020-10-12

What is responsible innovation? Risk Bites takes a dive into why socially responsible innovation and ethical entrepreneurship matter, and what you can do to ensure good intentions really do end up making people’s lives better. 

Of course, we can hardly do the topic justice in three short minutes, so please do check out the links below for more information. 

Note: this video is directly relevant to ethical innovation, social innovation, science ethics and responsible entrepreneurship

The video is part of Risk Bites series on Public Interest Technology - technology in the service of public good.


USEFUL LINKS

Tech businesses need to think differently about ethical and responsible innovation (Edge of Innovation, Andrew Maynard) https://andrewmaynard.substack.com/p/responsible-innovation-entrepreneurs

Sci-fi movies are the secret weapon that could help Silicon Valley grow up (The Conversation, Andrew Maynard) https://theconversation.com/sci-fi-movies-are-the-secret-weapon-that-could-help-silicon-valley-grow-up-105714 

The RRI Toolkit https://rri-tools.eu/

The Risk Innovation Nexus http://riskinnovation.org 

Innovating responsibly in a culture of entrepreneurship (Edge of Innovation, Andrew Maynard) https://andrewmaynard.substack.com/p/responsible-innovation

Socially Responsible Innovation (from Films from the Future, Andrew Maynard) https://filmsfromthefuture.com/responsible-innovation/

What Is Responsible Innovation and Why Does It Matter? (FlexMR) https://medium.com/@FlexMR/what-is-responsible-innovation-and-why-does-it-matter-c096ba3df60d 

Ethics Boards Won’t Save Big Tech (OneZero, Andrew Maynard) https://onezero.medium.com/tech-companies-need-an-ethics-reset-4d936a27960e 

What Does “Responsible Innovation” Mean? (Jonathan Hankins, IEEE Spectrum) https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/innovation/what-does-responsible-innovation-mean 

Developing a framework for responsible innovation (Stilgoe, Owen and Macnaghten, ) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.05.008 


RISK BITES

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#innovation #ethics #responsibleinnovation #technology

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Professor Andrew Maynard is a scientist, author, and leading expert on risk and the ethical and socially responsible development and use of new technologies. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, serves as co-chair of the Institute for the Advancement of Nutrition and Food Science (IAFNS) Board of Trustees, is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research President’s Research Council, has served on a number of National Academies of Sciences committees, and has testified before congressional committees on several occasions.

As well as producing Risk Bites, Andrew’s work has appeared in publications ranging from The Washington Post and Scientific American, to Slate, Salon, and OneZero. He co-hosts the podcasts Mission: Interplanetary and Future Rising, and is the author of the books Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies, and Future Rising: A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow.    

Andrew received his PhD in aerosol dynamics from the University of Cambridge in 1993, and is currently a professor in the Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and an Associate Dean in the ASU College of Global Futures.

More at http://andrewmaynard.net