Experimenting with co-design in STI policy making

Policy Design and Practice

Alessandro Deserti¹  Francesca Rizzo¹  Melanie Smallman² 

[1] Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy;Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, London, U;

关键词: RRI;    STI policy making;    co-creation;    co-design;    small-scale experimentation;   

DOI  :  10.1080/25741292.2020.1764692

来源: Taylor & Francis

【 摘 要 】

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has emerged in recent years, in Europe and across the world, as a model of scientific and technological advancement that is the result of the cooperation of actors that traditionally worked in an autonomous way. Advanced perspectives on RRI suggest how knowledge and solutions should be co-produced by diverse actors working in synergy, including civil society and citizens. This article introduces the notion of co-creation as a framework to operationalize RRI. The article discusses insights coming from ten labs across Europe, where experiments in co-design processes and tools are designing and testing solutions to societal challenges under diverse science, technology and innovation (STI) policies. Furthermore, it compares empirical insights with the debate on experimentation of co-creation practices in STI policy making and on the potentialities and limitations of design for policy. Moreover, the article discusses the restricted focus of RRI, which has primarily concentrated on scientific and technological research and science-based innovation, highlighting the need to include other forms of innovation (like social and human centered innovation) and perspectives to sustain the concrete uptake of RRI in diverse contexts.

【 授权许可】

CC BY