Process, outcomes, virtues: the normative strategies of responsible research and innovation and the challenge of moral pluralism

Journal of Responsible Innovation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 233-254

  Pellé, Sophie ^a  

^a Centre for Political Research of Sciences   (France)

Author keywords

care ethics; outcome oriented theory; proceduralism; responsibility; Responsible research and innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037097224     PISSN: 23299460     EISSN: 23299037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23299460.2016.1258945     Document Type: Article

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