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Funding awarded in research programme 'Designing for public values in a digital world'
The research programme “Responsible Innovation. Designing for public values in a digital world” has awarded funding to five promising research proposals for research into safeguarding public values in the design and use of new digital technology.
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About the program 'Responsible Innovation. Designing for Public Values in a Digital World'
In this digital age, it is of the utmost importance that municipalities and government ministries pay due consideration to public values in their policy.
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Event
Workshop: toolkit for MVI issues in the high tech
Where do you start when you want to explore possible ethical and societal issues arising from your innovation? During a workshop organised by TKI HTSM and NWO-MVI on 30 November 2017, Peter-Paul Verbeek and Nico Nijenhuis presented the toolkit they developed to tackle this problem.
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Looking back on the conference Connecting Practices 2018
On Friday January 19th, the Muntgebouw in Utrecht was filled with the chatter of about 200 people, already active in the field of responsible innovation, or interested to join.
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Conference Connecting Practices: insights from the industry
What is there to gain for a company by engaging in responsible innovation initiatives? During the conference Connecting Practices, representatives of industry revealed a myriad of motives.
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The MVI approach: a gain for society
‘If we can do better by innovation tomorrow, we have an obligation to innovate today.’ That motto from the NWO-MVI movie clip shown during 'Connecting practices' is the leading principle for the MVI-approach, illustrated member of the NWO-MVI Committee and Professor at Delft University of Technology Jeroen Van den Hoven during the closing debate.
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Connecting practices: sure, but how?
How does a cooperation between academic researchers and public and private partners in the field of responsible innovation come about? What are the challenges, and how to overcome them? During the conference Connecting practices, ample best practices were shared, and during several workshops possible solutions and suggestions were discussed for practical problems that can arise when working on a (sensitive) societal issue.
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News
Granted NWO-MVI projects 2016
Within NWO-MVI, nine new research projects, all related to the top sectors, were honored at the beginning of 2017. These projects identify early ethical and social issues of (technological) innovations, to make sure these can be taken into account in the innovation process. This increases the level of acceptance among stakeholders.
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Conference Connecting Practices: presentations of research projects
During the first day of the two-day NWO-MVI conference Connecting practices, researchers met for an intimate meeting at the Muntgebouw in Utrecht.
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NWO-MVI platform
Infographic on NWO-MVI approach
Identifying ethical and social issues at an early stage and taking these into account in the design process will lead to responsible innovations that enjoy broad social consensus. This approach also reduces failures or costly adaptations at a later stage.
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Project update
A role for emotions in design
Emotions play an important role in the debate on innovations such as wind parks, robot carers and genetically-modified food. A team of MVI researchers is investigating the role of these emotions in the design of socially-responsible innovations.
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In the media
Verbeek wins World Technology Award on Ethics
In December 2016, the prestigious World Technology Award was awarded to Peter-Paul Verbeek, professor in philosophy of technology at the University of Twente.
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NWO-MVI platform
Why Royal HaskoningDHV joined a project on emotions
Emotions in innovation processes. With his experiences as a project manager, Carl de Cock is very familiar with this subject. 'I have worked at Royal HaskoningDHV for nearly twenty years. Four years ago I stepped back from a management position and became a senior project manager. All of the projects I have been a part of since then have involved social impact or stakeholder management. I have repeatedly observed that dealing with emotions is a key success factor for finding support for a project and, when necessary, being able to make the right adjustments.'
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