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. 2014:10:17.
doi: 10.1186/s40504-014-0017-4. Epub 2014 Nov 6.

The past and future of RRI

Arie Rip  1
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The past and future of RRI

Arie Rip. Life Sci Soc Policy. 2014.

Abstract

Within the space of a few years, the idea of Responsible Research and Innovation, and its acronym RRI, catapulted from an obscure phrase to the topic of conferences and attempts to specify and realize it. How did this come about, and against which backdrop? What are the dynamics at present, and what do these imply for the future of RRI as a discourse, and as a patchwork of practices? It is a social innovation which creates opening in existing (and evolving) divisions of moral labour, a notion that is explained with the help of the history of responsibility language. It is filled in for the present situation and ongoing developments. Some elements may stabilize and this creates a path into the future. There will be reductions of the originally open-ended innovation, some productive, others less so. This is a reason to regularly inquire into the value of the reductions and the directions the path is taking.

Keywords: Division of moral labour; Path dependency; Reflection; Responsibility; Social innovation.

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