RRI Tools

Summary

• Societal challenges, such as digitization or climate change, establish the need for setting participation on the political agenda.
• Joining forces of users, citizens, and industry in shared innovation processes provide opportunities to tackle the needs of both society and economy.
• Co-creation needs a clear compass to gain socially desirable outcomes. The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) provides a strong framework for matching technological progress with public needs.
• Policy support of RRI-based co-creation is needed to improve awareness of this approach and to disseminate best practices.
• Responsible co-creation is demanding. Policy funding should be based on quality criteria. 

Contents

• Why should policy support participation in innovation processes? 
• Supporting policy with scientific evidence?
• What are the success conditions? 
• What kind of political support is needed? 
  • Research funding needs to allow a framework for trial and error and for gaining experience
  • No enforced specific outcome expectations and requirements before the process is started.
  • Participatory culture needs more time if it is to establish commitment and connectivity.
  • An award for successful industry-user collaboration should be initiated to help promoting co-creating in a responsible way
• What quality criteria should be used to decide on funding requests?
  • Legitimacy
  • Methods
  • Selection of participants
  • Scientific evaluation