The second annual Responsible Innovation conference will be held in The \;Hague\, the Netherlands\, on 13-14 December 2012. This two-day conference will \;bring together researchers from the humanities\, social sciences and \;science/technology from around the world\, to exchange ideas for mutual \;benefit and to forge new inter-disciplinary and international research \;partnerships. The programme will include two keynote presentations - \;invited speakers to be announced - and a special policy relevance panel \;session\, \;as well as 30 contributed paper slots and 15 poster presentations drawn \;from this call for papers.
\nBackground:
\nSince 2008\, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has \;funded the thematic Responsible Innovation research programme\, abbreviated \;to "MVI" from the Dutch "Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Innoveren". For \;details see the programme website: \;http://www.nwo.nl/mvi
The Responsible Innovation programme involves research into the ethical \;and societal aspects of new technologies (e.g. ICT\, nanotechnology\, \;biotechnology and brain sciences) and of changes in technological systems \;(e.g. energy\, transport\, agriculture and water). The programme's objective \;is to help ensure that technological and scientific advances become \;properly embedded in society. To this end the funded projects not only \;result in scholarly analysis and an understanding of a particular problem\, \;but subsequently also lead to a 'design perspective'.
Research within the Responsible Innovation programme is highly \;inter-disciplinary. It involves close collaboration between researchers \;in such diverse fields as ethics\, social science\, law\, economics\, applied \;science and engineering - as well as innovative\, design-oriented and \;policy-relevant. The programme has an explicitly proactive dimension. \;Right from the start\, research\, development and design incorporate \;relevant ethical and societal aspects. This allows researchers to \;make a genuine contribution to responsible innovation. \;Besides Dutch innovation projects the programme also emphatically \;involves innovation projects in other countries or parts of the world\, in \;particular in \;developing countries.
Contact: \;info@responsible-innovation.nl
\nMVI Programme committee
Professor Jeroen van den Hoven (Chair\; Delft University of Technology)
Professor Bert-Jaap Koops (Tilburg University)
Dr. Kees Linse (Board Technology Foundation STW)
Dr. Henny Romijn (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Professor Tsjalling Swierstra (Maastricht University)