The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects

In this paper, we introduce the Societal Readiness (SR) Thinking Tool to aid researchers and innovators in developing research projects with greater responsiveness to societal values, needs, and expectations. The need for societally-focused approaches to research and innovation—complementary to Tech...

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Autores principales: Bernstein, Michael J., Nielsen, Mathias Wullum, Alnor, Emil, Brasil, André, Birkving, Astrid Lykke, Chan, Tung Tung, Griessler, Erich, de Jong, Stefan, van de Klippe, Wouter, Meijer, Ingeborg, Yaghmaei, Emad, Nicolaisen, Peter Busch, Nieminen, Mika, Novitzky, Peter, Mejlgaard, Niels
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8794941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35084575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00360-3
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author Bernstein, Michael J.
Nielsen, Mathias Wullum
Alnor, Emil
Brasil, André
Birkving, Astrid Lykke
Chan, Tung Tung
Griessler, Erich
de Jong, Stefan
van de Klippe, Wouter
Meijer, Ingeborg
Yaghmaei, Emad
Nicolaisen, Peter Busch
Nieminen, Mika
Novitzky, Peter
Mejlgaard, Niels
author_facet Bernstein, Michael J.
Nielsen, Mathias Wullum
Alnor, Emil
Brasil, André
Birkving, Astrid Lykke
Chan, Tung Tung
Griessler, Erich
de Jong, Stefan
van de Klippe, Wouter
Meijer, Ingeborg
Yaghmaei, Emad
Nicolaisen, Peter Busch
Nieminen, Mika
Novitzky, Peter
Mejlgaard, Niels
author_sort Bernstein, Michael J.
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description In this paper, we introduce the Societal Readiness (SR) Thinking Tool to aid researchers and innovators in developing research projects with greater responsiveness to societal values, needs, and expectations. The need for societally-focused approaches to research and innovation—complementary to Technology Readiness (TR) frameworks—is presented. Insights from responsible research and innovation (RRI) concepts and practice, organized across critical stages of project-life cycles are discussed with reference to the development of the SR Thinking Tool. The tool is designed to complement not only shortfalls in TR approaches, but also improve upon other efforts to integrate RRI, sustainability, and design thinking in research and innovation cycles. Operationalization and early-stage user tests of the Tool are reported, along with discussion of potential future iterations and applications. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11948-021-00360-3.
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spelling pubmed-87949412022-02-02 The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects Bernstein, Michael J. Nielsen, Mathias Wullum Alnor, Emil Brasil, André Birkving, Astrid Lykke Chan, Tung Tung Griessler, Erich de Jong, Stefan van de Klippe, Wouter Meijer, Ingeborg Yaghmaei, Emad Nicolaisen, Peter Busch Nieminen, Mika Novitzky, Peter Mejlgaard, Niels Sci Eng Ethics Original Research/Scholarship In this paper, we introduce the Societal Readiness (SR) Thinking Tool to aid researchers and innovators in developing research projects with greater responsiveness to societal values, needs, and expectations. The need for societally-focused approaches to research and innovation—complementary to Technology Readiness (TR) frameworks—is presented. Insights from responsible research and innovation (RRI) concepts and practice, organized across critical stages of project-life cycles are discussed with reference to the development of the SR Thinking Tool. The tool is designed to complement not only shortfalls in TR approaches, but also improve upon other efforts to integrate RRI, sustainability, and design thinking in research and innovation cycles. Operationalization and early-stage user tests of the Tool are reported, along with discussion of potential future iterations and applications. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11948-021-00360-3. Springer Netherlands 2022-01-27 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8794941/ /pubmed/35084575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00360-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Original Research/Scholarship
Bernstein, Michael J.
Nielsen, Mathias Wullum
Alnor, Emil
Brasil, André
Birkving, Astrid Lykke
Chan, Tung Tung
Griessler, Erich
de Jong, Stefan
van de Klippe, Wouter
Meijer, Ingeborg
Yaghmaei, Emad
Nicolaisen, Peter Busch
Nieminen, Mika
Novitzky, Peter
Mejlgaard, Niels
The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects
title The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects
title_full The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects
title_fullStr The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects
title_full_unstemmed The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects
title_short The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects
title_sort societal readiness thinking tool: a practical resource for maturing the societal readiness of research projects
topic Original Research/Scholarship
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8794941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35084575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00360-3
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