RRI y ambivalencia en el sistema de innovación de la UE: la heurística de la anticipación y sus límites

Hannot Rodríguez; Sergio Urueña

doi:10.33064/43crscsh1982

Authors

Hannot Rodríguez Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0769-4634
Sergio Urueña Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1084-2709

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33064/43crscsh1982

Keywords:

RRI, responsible innovation, ambivalence, Horizon 2020, anticipation

Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the constitutively ambivalent nature of the current EU framework for responsible innovation, namely Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). This ambivalence relies on the dynamics underlying the narratives and practices involved in innovation processes, and it reflects the tensions between two tendencies in RRI within the innovation system, namely the tensions between a disruptive (or inclusive) tendency and a limiting tendency (insofar as it is committed to a predetermined normative framework). Responsible management of techno-industrial innovations should address these tensions, and anticipation could arguably be an appropriate instrument for doing so. However, anticipation does not escape this ambivalence. Promoting an anticipatory heuristic that is capable of managing these tensions productively and illuminating alternative courses of action will also depend on the ability to link anticipation to a characteristically disruptive strategy (whilst recognizing the strategy’s limitations).

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Author Biographies

Hannot Rodríguez, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU

Hannot Rodríguez (hannot.rodriguez@ehu.eus) es Profesor Agregado del Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU (Facultad de Letras). También es miembro de la Cátedra Miguel Sánchez-Mazas y del grupo de investigación PRAXIS (UPV/EHU). Líneas de investigación: gobernanza del riesgo, innovación responsable, dimensiones filosóficas y sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología (ORCID 0000-0003-0769-4634).

Sergio Urueña, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU

Sergio Urueña (sergio.uruena@ehu.eus) es doctorando en el programa de Filosofía, Ciencia y Valores de la Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU. Su tesis doctoral versa sobre el rol epistémico-político de la plausibilidad en los modelos de Gobernanza Anticipatoria de las nanotecnologías (ORCID 0000-0002-1084-2709).

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