Abstract

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is emerging as a set of principles and practices whose aim is to give greater voice and choice to the interested and affected public well before innovations enter the marketplace or environment. Dr. Jennifer Kuzma argues for embedding RRI in innovation systems for emerging biotechnologies, explores the challenges for doing so and addresses the “wicked problem” of how RRI can coexist within oversight systems that lean towards the values of innovators, anti-precaution, and techno-optimism.

Jennifer Kuzma, Ph.D., is the Goodnight-NC GSK Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences and co-founder and co-director of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center at NC State. Dr. Kuzma’s research interests involve the integration of social, policy and natural sciences for emerging technologies governance. She has published more than 150 articles and book chapters, and in 2018 she was elected a lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished translational work in advancing anticipatory governance of new technologies and contributions to methods for oversight policy analysis.

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