Two tribes or more? The historical emergence of discourse coalitions of responsible research and innovation (rri) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

Journal of Responsible Innovation

Sally Randles¹  Pierre-Benoît Joly²  Elise Tancoigne² 

[1] Faculty of Business and Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK;LISIS, Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-La-Vallée, France;

关键词: Discourse coalitions;    discursive space;    responsible innovation;    Responsible Research and Innovation;    RRI;    scientometrics;   

DOI  :  10.1080/23299460.2022.2061306

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Tracing the historical emergence of academic/policy discourses shines a light on processes of early institutionalisation, informs narratives of contemporary self-identity and provides a resource from which to imagine alternative futures. Contributing to this ambition our paper uses scientometric methods to undertake two socio-semantic analyses. First, we identify the de-facto origins and contemporary clustering of scientists’ discursive spaces of ‘responsibility’. This ‘rri corpus’ reveals seven distinct clusters – or discourse coalitions of responsibility – but shows limited cross-fertilisation between the clusters. Second we trace the emergence of European policy on ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ (RRI). The ‘RRI corpus’ shows policy to have been dominated by a small number of actors. Some cross-over between rri and RRI provides evidence of discourse coalition building, but only a small group of actors occupy these strategic bridges. The paper offers a contribution to wider debates and strategic reflections on the past, present and futures of responsible innovation.

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