On Apr 2, 2013, Alexei Grinbaum (and others) published the chapter: What Is “Responsible” about Responsible Innovation? Understanding the Ethical Issues in a book.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262864436_What_Is_Responsible_about_Responsible_Innovation_Understanding_the_Ethical_Issues
To decide what responsible innovation means, it is necessary to understand the ethical significance of innovation as a kind of action that can significantly alter the natural and social worlds and the human condition.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262864436_What_Is_Responsible_about_Responsible_Innovation_Understanding_the_Ethical_Issues
“Responsible Research and Innovation is a transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products (in order to allow a proper embedding of scientific and technological advances in our society).”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/innovation/what-does-responsible-innovation-mean
In the face of this continuity of the fundamental moral condition, we examine a number of alternative ways of thinking about the basis of responsible innovation, exploring the appropriateness of metaphors of quasi-parental care and collective political responsibility, as well as the place of virtue in innovation and the role of cultural narratives in helping us understand the limits of responsible innovation.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262864436_What_Is_Responsible_about_Responsible_Innovation_Understanding_the_Ethical_Issues
The Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI) The Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI) was created to accelerate the formation of a community of scholars and practitioners who, despite divides in geography and political culture, will create a common concept of responsible innovation for research, training and outreach – and in doing so contribute to the governance of emerging technologies under conditions dominated by high uncertainty, high stakes, and challenging ...
https://cns.asu.edu/viri
He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Responsible Innovation published by Taylor & Francis, and participates through the Bassetti Foundation in the Virtual Institute for Responsible innovation and the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/innovation/what-does-responsible-innovation-mean
“Responsible innovation means taking care of the future through collective stewardship of science and innovation in the present.” These definitions address the concept of RI in terms of science, technology, and industrial production and include the distribution and supply processes, end products and their use.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/innovation/what-does-responsible-innovation-mean
While some analyses of responsible research and innovation (RRI) include consideration of accountability ( Lee and Petts, 2013;Sutcliffe, 2011), others are explicitly critical of what is portrayed as the traumatic and infantilising effects on processes of innovation ( Grinbaum and Groves, 2013).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262864436_What_Is_Responsible_about_Responsible_Innovation_Understanding_the_Ethical_Issues
VIRI will: 1  perform interlinked empirical, reflexive and normative research in a collaborative and comparative mode to explore and develop key concepts in RI; 2  develop curricular material and support educational exchanges of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty;
https://cns.asu.edu/viri
The Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI) was created to accelerate the formation of a community of scholars and practitioners who, despite divides in geography and political culture, will create a common concept of responsible innovation for research, training and outreach – and in doing so contribute to the governance of emerging ...
https://cns.asu.edu/viri
what is responsible innovation
Responsible innovation means taking care of the future through collective stewardship of science and innovation in the present.