Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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.

Background:

Since 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: [email protected]

MVI 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)