Abstract
In the last decade, the European Commission (EC) developed an ambitious strategy to promote RRI across the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020). This effort resulted in a significant number of European-funded projects that substantially expanded the available knowledge of the theory, methods and implementation of RRI. However, various evaluations and studies revealed a limited and diffuse implementation of the concept. In this article, we aim to shed some light on this matter with a study covering eight programme lines of H2020 (ERC, MSCA, LEIT, FOOD, ENV, SEC, WIDENING and EURATOM). We employ an extensive policy document analysis and 112 semi-structured interviews carried out with various stakeholders. We argue that the limited implementation of RRI in H2020 is the result of conflicts with existing values, science cultures, economic objectives, restricted resources for its implementation and a lack of clarification around what RRI means.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 291-314 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Responsible Innovation |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Jul 2022 |
Keywords
- RRI implementation
- Research excellence
- Science in society
- Innovation studies
- Horizon 2020
- RRI
Project and Funding Information
- Project ID
- info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/741402/EU/Excellence in science and innovation for Europe by adopting the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation/NewHoRRIzon
- info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/872550/EU/Territorial Responsible Research and Innovation and Smart Specialization/TetRRIS
- Funding Info
- This work was carried out thanks to the funding provided by the NewHoRRIzon project, a Horizon 2020 project under Grant Agreement number 741402. This work has been made accesible as gold open access by the funding provided by Horizon 2020 TetRRIS project under Grant Agreement number 872550.