TY - JOUR
T1 - Responsible innovation and societal challenges
T2 - The multi-scalarity dilemma
AU - Wiarda, Martijn
AU - Doorn, Neelke
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Societal challenges tend to be characterized by their multi-scalarity as problems emerge and co-evolve on multiple scales. Resolving these challenges requires innovators to navigate often conflicting considerations between multiple scales when dealing with complexity, uncertainty, and contestation. Innovators need to ground resolutions in local values and worldviews while simultaneously fitting these into global efforts to help drive systemic responses. Nevertheless, studies on Responsible Innovation commonly focus exclusively on a local or global scale. In this perspective paper, we explore rationales for these two prevalent but opposing approaches, and provide tentative insights into how multi-scalarity could be navigated by uniting scales through a hybrid approach. The paper proceeds by opening up research on multi-scalarity, and the geographical and relational aspects of Responsible Innovation in a broader sense.
AB - Societal challenges tend to be characterized by their multi-scalarity as problems emerge and co-evolve on multiple scales. Resolving these challenges requires innovators to navigate often conflicting considerations between multiple scales when dealing with complexity, uncertainty, and contestation. Innovators need to ground resolutions in local values and worldviews while simultaneously fitting these into global efforts to help drive systemic responses. Nevertheless, studies on Responsible Innovation commonly focus exclusively on a local or global scale. In this perspective paper, we explore rationales for these two prevalent but opposing approaches, and provide tentative insights into how multi-scalarity could be navigated by uniting scales through a hybrid approach. The paper proceeds by opening up research on multi-scalarity, and the geographical and relational aspects of Responsible Innovation in a broader sense.
KW - Multi-scalarity
KW - Politics of scaling
KW - Responsible innovation
KW - Responsible research and innovation
KW - Societal challenges
KW - Wicked problems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175299273&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jrt.2023.100072
DO - 10.1016/j.jrt.2023.100072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85175299273
SN - 2666-6596
VL - 16
JO - Journal of Responsible Technology
JF - Journal of Responsible Technology
M1 - 100072
ER -