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. 2023 Mar 13:8:1112106.
doi: 10.3389/frma.2023.1112106. eCollection 2023.

Building a responsible innovation toolkit as project legacy

Bernd Carsten Stahl  1   2 , Lise Bitsch  3
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Building a responsible innovation toolkit as project legacy

Bernd Carsten Stahl et al. Front Res Metr Anal. .

Abstract

This article explores whether and in what way it is possible to employ toolkits for responsible research and innovation (RRI toolkits) as mechanisms for ensuring the legacy of RRI in research projects. Based on a review of the concept of responsible research and innovation as well as existing toolkits in the area, the article offers an account of the development of an RRI toolkit in the context of the EU- funded Human Brain Project. This toolkit is designed to integrate insights and practices of responsible research and innovation developed over a 10 year period into the project legacy, the EBRAINS research infrastructure. The article suggests that toolkits have the potential to contribute to ensuring a long- lasting legacy of work undertaken in responsible research and innovation, but that this potential requires further support from institutions and the broader research environment to become realized.

Keywords: Human Brain Project; legacy; responsible innovation; responsible research and innovation (RRI); toolkit.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Introduction to public engagement in the EBRAINS Ethics and Society toolkit.
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A snapshot of the quiz for public engagement in the EBRAINS Ethics and Society toolkit.
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Screenshot of the foresight element in the EBRAINS Ethics and Society toolkit for data governance.
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