The emerging concept of responsible innovation. Three reasons why it is questionable and calls for a radical transformation of the concept of innovation

Responsible Innovation 2: Concepts, Approaches, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 19-36

  Blok, Vincent ^a   Lemmens, Pieter ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Engineering ethics; Innovation management; Responsible innovation; Responsible research and innovation; Science and technology studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943652586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17308-5_2     Document Type: Chapter

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