The fragility of responsibility : Norway's transformative agenda for research, innovation and business / edited by Giovanni De Grandis and Anne Blanchard.

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- The authors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Section 1: The emergence of responsibility -- Chapter 1 The institutionalization of social responsibility in Norwegian business and research: moral progress, moral decay, or both? -- Chapter 2 From value-freedom to responsible research and innovation? Post-normal and transdisciplinary pathways -- Chapter 3 Norwegian engagement with RRI and the propagation of RRI by the Research Council of Norway -- Section 2: Contexts of fragile responsibility -- Chapter 4 The elusive transformation of research and innovation. The overlooked complexities of value alignment and joint responsibility -- Chapter 5 Navigating tensions around RRI in higher education -- Chapter 6 Companies squeezed between autocratic and democratic regimes -- Section 3: Practices: fragile or robust? -- Chapter 7 Including societal actors in R&D -- Different expectations, different responsibilities -- Chapter 8 Do you value responsible innovation? -- Chapter 9 Has law and social science trivialised the concept and practice of whistleblowing in Norway 2007-2023? -- Chapter 10 Acting on the Norwegian Transparency act: interpretation and implementation -- Conclusion A sea change in science and technology ecologies? Prospects of socially responsible research and innovation towards 2030 -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Index

Attempts to steer research, innovation and business in desirable directions have failed to meet expectations. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and responsible research and innovation (RRI) seem to be losing ground, while the challenges they sought to address remain. Despite their shortcomings, these concepts remind us of the need to take responsibility for what we as researchers and entrepreneurs bring into the world, and to keep questioning the given framework. Drawing from the experience of the AFINO project, a unique attempt to bring together RRI and CSR and to promote networks, learning and skills building in Norway, this book contextualises and explores the practical challenges of actualising responsible practices even in the propitious Norwegian context. Readers interested in RRI, CSR, transdisciplinarity, and in the governance of research and innovation will find extensive information and insights about the challenges of steering research and business practices towards desirable ends and how to address them.

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In English.

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