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<br>Call for Papers for the Journal of Responsible Innovation:
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<br>RRI Futures  Learning from a decade of Responsible Research and Innovation
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<br>What can be learned from roughly a decade of interest in Responsible Research
<br>and Innovation (RRI)? How should such learning inform policy, scholarly, and
<br>practitioner agendas and imaginations for the next 10 years? These questions
<br>come at a critical time: Whereas RRI has come to occupy an increasingly
<br>important space in science, technology and innovation policymaking,
<br>particularly but not exclusively in Europe, the European Commissions (EC)
<br>science policy discourse is shifting towards terms such as open
<br>innovation. This move, as some have noted,
<br>suggests questions and uncertainties even as it presents opportunities for
<br>renewal (Fisher 2020) or at least taking stock of both shortcomings and
<br>accomplishments.
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<br>We invite contributions of several different kinds for a Special Issue of the
<br>Journal of Responsible
<br>Innovation devoted to learning
<br>from the ECs approach to and investments in RRI in order to shed light on
<br>possible, desirable, or alternative futures of RRI. Based upon what can be
<br>learned from the recent experience with RRI, what potential futures and
<br>agendas can be plausibly anticipated or legitimately recommended?
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<br>We invite research articles of 6,000-10,000 words that empirically ground
<br>their assessments of RRI futures in analyses of RRI policies, programs, and
<br>activities. We are particularly interested in what can be learned more
<br>generally and moving forward from their successes, failures, and tensions. By
<br>empirical, we are open to qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and
<br>experimental approaches that may include but are not limited to surveys,
<br>interviews, case studies, observations, experiences, document analysis and
<br>literature reviews. We also welcome a variety of theoretical, conceptual, and
<br>historical treatments of RRI policies, discourses, practices, and assumptions.
<br>Finally, we invite short Perspectives (roughly 2000 words) that present
<br>well-grounded opinions, commentary, or visions that are based in the scholarly
<br>literature or in new research.
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<br>In keeping with JRIs broad approach, we encourage potential authors to treat
<br>RRI as a unique and historically situated policy experiment in the normative
<br>governance of science and innovation that sits alongside numerous other
<br>approaches. Questions and topics that potential contributors may wish to
<br>consider as they engage more broadly with RRI futures include the following:
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<br>  *   What have we learned from RRI about the politics of responsible
<br>innovation? How can RRI experiments and experiences help us understand
<br>interactions among publics, experts and other innovation actors in reflexive,
<br>anticipatory and tentative forms of governance?
<br>  *   Can lessons learned from RRI guide us in confronting and negotiating
<br>irresponsibilities, inequities and misalignments among research and innovation
<br>actors and institutions, whether these are persistent or emerging?
<br>  *   How does the current experience with RRI compare to prior or
<br>contemporary policy-for-science experiences such as Technology Assessment,
<br>Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects/Implications (ELSA/ELSI) research, and
<br>Broader Impacts?
<br>  *   In what ways has it experimented with or advanced social scientific
<br>concepts and methodologies of foresight and anticipation, public and
<br>stakeholder engagement, or socio-technical integration and collaboration?
<br>  *   How does RRI relate to past and present grassroots experiments in
<br>social innovation, citizen science, and related movements that are now
<br>gaining traction with policymakers, scientists, and others in Europe and
<br>elsewhere?
<br>  *   How has RRI been viewed and taken up in industrial contexts? How can new
<br>constellations of actors and institutions respond to calls for increased
<br>alignment of products and processes with societal needs and values?
<br>  *   How has responsibility been imagined, achieved or apportioned in RRI
<br>thinking and practice, particularly in relation to innovation? How has this
<br>relationship developed  and what can we learn from this? Can the ECs six
<br>keys (ethics, gender equality, public
<br>engagement, etc.) be reconciled with other understandings of responsibility
<br>and RRI?
<br>  *   To what extent does the RRI experiment provide an adequate response to
<br>the grand societal challenges that face us today, such as: sustainable
<br>development, climate change, infectious diseases, social welfare, poverty and
<br>inequality, aging, big data? Has RRI helped to place these challenges more
<br>firmly on policy and research agendas, particularly in a period of major
<br>global disruption and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?
<br>  *   What can be learned from numerous real-world experiments with RRI,
<br>including in non-European contexts (e.g., the Global South) and domains that
<br>do not usually fall under its remit (e.g., incumbent sciences and
<br>technologies)?
<br>  *   What remains to be learned, retained, reclaimed, forgotten, or
<br>reinvented?
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<br>With these and related questions, we seek to develop insights and formulate
<br>agendas that will inform future iterations and manifestations of responsible
<br>innovation, whether or not explicitly associated with the specific notion of
<br>RRI. We encourage potential contributors to base any proposed new definitions,
<br>frameworks, or visions in empirical analysis or in the larger scholarly
<br>literature and in particular policy and historical research, reflexive
<br>analyses, and policy experiences and cycles. Authors are further encouraged to
<br>take into account Owen and Panseras (2019)
<br>distinction between RRI as a policy approach and Responsible Innovation more
<br>broadly as an intellectual and scholarly set of visions and practices.
<br>Explorations of potential and alternative RRI futures should thus be based on
<br>a solid grounding in empirics or the literature, with a view towards answering
<br>difficult but timely questions about the lessons that can be learned from the
<br>RRI experiment.
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<br>Extended abstracts of no more than 1,000 words should be emailed to JRI Guest
<br>Editors Michiel Van Oudheusden and Clare
<br>Shelley-Egan by June 19th. Authors will be notified as
<br>to whether their abstract was accepted or not by July 10th. Invited
<br>manuscripts should be submitted through the JRI
<br>website by September 18th  to
<br>undergo standard double-blind peer review. We aim for publication in late 2020
<br>or early 2021.
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<br>References
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<br>Fisher, E. 2020. Reinventing responsible innovation. Journal of Responsible
<br>Innovation 7(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2020.1712537
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<br>Owen, R. & Pansera, M. 2019, Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research
<br>and Innovation. In D. Simon, S. Kuhlmann, J. Stamm & W. Canzler (eds),
<br>Handbook on Science and Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 26-48.
<br>https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784715946
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