Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Acknowledgements XIII
4. Contents XV
5. The authors XVII
6. List of abbreviations XIX
7. Introduction 1
8. Section 1: The emergence of responsibility
9. Chapter 1 The institutionalization of social responsibility in Norwegian business and research: moral progress, moral decay, or both? 13
10. Chapter 2 From value-freedom to responsible research and innovation? Post-normal and transdisciplinary pathways 27
11. Chapter 3 Norwegian engagement with RRI and the propagation of RRI by the Research Council of Norway 49
12. Section 2: Contexts of fragile responsibility
13. Chapter 4 The elusive transformation of research and innovation. The overlooked complexities of value alignment and joint responsibility 83
14. Chapter 5 Navigating tensions around RRI in higher education 117
15. Chapter 6 Companies squeezed between autocratic and democratic regimes 143
16. Section 3: Practices: fragile or robust?
17. Chapter 7 Including societal actors in R&D – Different expectations, different responsibilities 173
18. Chapter 8 Do you value responsible innovation? 191
19. Chapter 9 Has law and social science trivialised the concept and practice of whistleblowing in Norway 2007–2023? 215
20. Chapter 10 Acting on the Norwegian Transparency act: interpretation and implementation 245
21. Conclusion A sea change in science and technology ecologies? Prospects of socially responsible research and innovation towards 2030 267
22. List of figures 275
23. List of tables 277
24. Index 279