What Is "Responsible" about Responsible Innovation? Understanding the Ethical Issues

Responsible Innovation: Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 119-142

  Grinbaum, Alexei ^a   Groves, Christopher ^b  

^a CEA Saclay IRFU LARSIM   (France)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care; Collective responsibility; Consequentialism; Finitude; Frankenstein; Golem; Narrative; Uncertainty; Virtue

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885645043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118551424.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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