1st Edition

Translations of Responsibility Innovation Governance in Three European Regions

242 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In 2020, a group of European researchers got a European Union (EU) grant to do a project called TRANSFORM. The objective of TRANSFORM was to integrate the principle of responsible research and innovation (RRI) into the research and innovation policies of three European regions: Lombardy, Brussels, and Catalonia. This book tells the story of how TRANSFORM translated RRI into practice, all the... Read more

1. The problem of responsibility in the governance of technoscience 2. Territorial RRI as translation 3. Responsibility, RRI and Science-with-and-for-Society (SwafS) 4. Institutionalizing deliberative democracy in Lombardy 5. Citizen science as innovation governance in Catalonia 6. Co-design and co-creation for social innovation in the Brussels-Capital Region 7. Intra-comparison: Translation, carriers and mediators 8. A sideview to the laboratory 9. Governance in Technoscience.

Biography

Thomas Völker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities (SVT) of the University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests include practices of knowledge production and circulation in environmental governance and modes of experimenting with participatory democracy in policymaking.

Rasmus Slaattelid is Director and a professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Norway. His research focuses on translations between fields of knowledge, in the form of metaphors, models, and analogies.

Roger Strand is a professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities (SVT) of the University of Bergen, Norway, and Co-Director of the European Centre for Governance in Complexity. His research focuses on uncertainty and complexity at the interfaces between knowledge and action.