TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges in the implementation of responsible research and innovation across Horizon 2020
AU - Tabarés, Raúl
AU - Loeber, Anne
AU - Nieminen, Mika
AU - Bernstein, Michael J.
AU - Griessler, Erich
AU - Blok, Vincent
AU - Cohen, Joshua
AU - Hönigmayer, Helmut
AU - Wunderle, Ulrike
AU - Frankus, Elisabeth
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was carried out thanks to the funding provided by the NewHoRRIzon project, a Horizon 2020 project under Grant Agreement number 741402. This work has been made accesible as gold open access by the funding provided by Horizon 2020 TetRRIS project under Grant Agreement number 872550. We would like to thank all the researchers, innovators, policymakers, EC representatives, RFOs, CSO members and other stakeholders who took part in this study for kindly sharing their time, ideas and experience with the research team.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In the last decade, the European Commission (EC) developed an ambitious strategy to promote RRI across the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020). This effort resulted in a significant number of European-funded projects that substantially expanded the available knowledge of the theory, methods and implementation of RRI. However, various evaluations and studies revealed a limited and diffuse implementation of the concept. In this article, we aim to shed some light on this matter with a study covering eight programme lines of H2020 (ERC, MSCA, LEIT, FOOD, ENV, SEC, WIDENING and EURATOM). We employ an extensive policy document analysis and 112 semi-structured interviews carried out with various stakeholders. We argue that the limited implementation of RRI in H2020 is the result of conflicts with existing values, science cultures, economic objectives, restricted resources for its implementation and a lack of clarification around what RRI means.
AB - In the last decade, the European Commission (EC) developed an ambitious strategy to promote RRI across the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020). This effort resulted in a significant number of European-funded projects that substantially expanded the available knowledge of the theory, methods and implementation of RRI. However, various evaluations and studies revealed a limited and diffuse implementation of the concept. In this article, we aim to shed some light on this matter with a study covering eight programme lines of H2020 (ERC, MSCA, LEIT, FOOD, ENV, SEC, WIDENING and EURATOM). We employ an extensive policy document analysis and 112 semi-structured interviews carried out with various stakeholders. We argue that the limited implementation of RRI in H2020 is the result of conflicts with existing values, science cultures, economic objectives, restricted resources for its implementation and a lack of clarification around what RRI means.
KW - Horizon 2020
KW - innovation studies
KW - research excellence
KW - RRI
KW - RRI implementation
KW - science in society
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U2 - 10.1080/23299460.2022.2101211
DO - 10.1080/23299460.2022.2101211
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135172240
VL - 9
SP - 291
EP - 314
JO - Journal of Responsible Innovation
JF - Journal of Responsible Innovation
SN - 2329-9460
IS - 3
ER -