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- Title
UNIVERSITIES AND RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION.
- Authors
Molnár, Gabriella; Lukovics, Miklós
- Abstract
Nowadays the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a well-noted policy of the European Union. The concept can be understood as the innovation policy of sustainability. On a theoretical level RRI is considered as a developed topic, but the interpretation of its practical utilization is an important task in the future. Universities play an important role in dissemination and implementation of responsible research and innovation. In addition to education RRI, knowledge utilization and proactive economic development have a great significance among the objectives of universities. So universities are the institutions which can effectively enhance the possibilities of RRI implementation. At the moment there are several empirical studies regarding the implementation of RRI (e.g. the STIR research based on Erik Fisher's methodology), universities have a key role in this process. This statement is especially true in less developed countries, where RRI is a relatively new concept, and where the research development and innovation activities are functioning in different ways compared to the practice of developed countries. Universities can contribute to raising awareness as well, in order to make decisions by considering several aspects of a certain topic. They not only follow templates and aim to avoid possible negative externalities. This paper examines the role of universities in dissemination and implementation of responsible innovation by considering particular characteristics of less developed countries.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; SUSTAINABILITY; ECONOMIC development; EUROPEAN Union -- Social aspects; ECONOMIC conditions of developed countries
- Publication
International Journal of Arts & Sciences, 2016, Vol 9, Issue 1, p517
- ISSN
1557-718X
- Publication type
Article