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Reflections on different governance styles in regulating science: a contribution to ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’

In European science and technology policy, various styles have been developed and institutionalised to govern the ethical challenges of science and technology innovations. In this paper, we give an account of the most dominant styles of the past 30 years, particularly in Europe, seeking to show thei...

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Autores principales: Landeweerd, Laurens, Townend, David, Mesman, Jessica, Van Hoyweghen, Ine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26260065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-015-0026-y
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Townend, David
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description In European science and technology policy, various styles have been developed and institutionalised to govern the ethical challenges of science and technology innovations. In this paper, we give an account of the most dominant styles of the past 30 years, particularly in Europe, seeking to show their specific merits and problems. We focus on three styles of governance: a technocratic style, an applied ethics style, and a public participation style. We discuss their merits and deficits, and use this analysis to assess the potential of the recently established governance approach of ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ (RRI). Based on this analysis, we reflect on the current shaping of RRI in terms of ‘doing governance’.
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spelling pubmed-45311162015-08-11 Reflections on different governance styles in regulating science: a contribution to ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ Landeweerd, Laurens Townend, David Mesman, Jessica Van Hoyweghen, Ine Life Sci Soc Policy Research In European science and technology policy, various styles have been developed and institutionalised to govern the ethical challenges of science and technology innovations. In this paper, we give an account of the most dominant styles of the past 30 years, particularly in Europe, seeking to show their specific merits and problems. We focus on three styles of governance: a technocratic style, an applied ethics style, and a public participation style. We discuss their merits and deficits, and use this analysis to assess the potential of the recently established governance approach of ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ (RRI). Based on this analysis, we reflect on the current shaping of RRI in terms of ‘doing governance’. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4531116/ /pubmed/26260065 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-015-0026-y Text en © Landeweerd et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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