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The aim of this chapter is to present an overview of the « responsible innovation » concept. This concept was first defined at the beginning of the 21st century. It then spread around the world, driven by the European Commission. Firstly, we present the roots of this concept which are based on, on the one hand, the philosophical approach of "researchers and engineers responsibility", and on the other hand, technological assessment. Then, we describe how the concept of "responsible research and innovation" has grown progressively in European research and innovation politics, in order to bring science and innovation closer to society. Lastly, we describe how this concept is used in companies in connection with their social responsibility. ; L'objectif de ce chapitre est de réaliser un « état de l'art » portant sur le concept d' « innovation responsable » apparu au début des années 2000 et diffusé notamment sous l'impulsion de la Commission Européenne. Nous présentons tout d'abord les fondements, de ce concept, en lien avec l'approche philosophique de la responsabilité des chercheurs et ingénieurs, d'une part, les questions relatives à l'évaluation des techniques d'autre part. Puis nous exposons comment le concept de « recherche et innovation responsables » s'est développé progressivement dans les politiques européennes de recherche et d'innovation, afin de rapprocher la science et l'innovation de la société. Enfin, nous relatons comment ce concept est décliné dans les entreprises, en lien avec leur responsabilité sociétale.

How does Open Innovation (OI) change the innovation behavior of companies and what is the impact of OI on universities, research institutions and public funding of innovation in Germany? This thesis aims to define and explain the main features of OI, outline advantages and disadvantages, present available statistics and discuss consequences for the national innovation system and public research. Document analysis and internet research is used to examine how OI is taken into account at universities, research institutions and in innovation funding. Conclusions are verified with expert interviews. Results show that OI is increasingly common in companies, but universities, research institutions, academic organizations and science management have hardly dealt with OI as a strategic mission. Public research and innovation funding currently provide little support for opening innovation processes in companies, universities and research institutions. The thesis offers recommendations for universities, research institutions and innovation funding and identifies areas for further research.

Der Autor analysiert die Rolle der Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen für die Schaffung innovationsförderlicher Organisationsstrukturen und setzt sich mit Mechanismen auseinander, die zu Misserfolgen von Innovationen aufgrund einer innerbetrieblichen Vernachlässigung von Wissensentwicklung und Interessenberücksichtigung führen. Es wird argumentiert, dass innovationsförderliche Organisationsformen, innovationsförderliche Arbeitsbedingungen und verlässliche Rahmenbedingungen erforderlich sind, um betriebliche Innovationspotenziale nutzen zu können. Der Verfasser kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Innovationsförderprogramme die Eigenart der KMU und die menschliche Seite von Innovationsprozessen, insbesondere die notwendige Kompetenzentwicklung der Träger von Innovationen, vernachlässigen. (ICG)

AbstractThis paper draws on the emerging field of innovation ethics (IE) to complement the more established field of responsible innovation (RI) by focusing on key ethical issues raised by technological innovations. One key limitation of influential frameworks of RI is that they tend to neglect some key ethical issues raised by innovation, as well as major normative dimensions of the notion of responsibility. We explain how IE could enrich RI by stressing the more important role that ethical analysis should play in RI. We focus on two transversal issues of IE: the issue of redrawing conceptual boundaries, especially the topic of the artificialization of the world, and the issue of responsibility, especially the notion of total responsibility. We address these two issues from the thematic perspective of IE, thereby generating lessons learnt for RI. These two examples are taken as illustrations and blueprint of the dialogue that should take place between the two fields.

This issue addresses the impact of the innovative process in the contemporary economic climate. Corporate Strategists are being challenged in the area of Strategy Formulation due to disruptive technologies which dilute the traditional industry boundaries. As such, the question has moved from what do we produce..to what need do we serve? The hitherto familiar industry classification method is no longer adequate due to innovation from multiple industry sectors wishing to serve similar customer needs