Shared Taxonomy for the Implementation of Responsible Innovation Approach in Industrial Ecosystems

Autor: Asta Valackienė, Rafał Nagaj
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Quadruple helix
Knowledge management
Geography
Planning and Development

responsible research and innovation
TJ807-830
Scientific literature
Ekosistema
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law

TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
Responsible research and innovation
Empirical research
Lietuva (Lithuania)
Social capital
quadruple helix model
Ivory tower
GE1-350
Keturguba spiralė
Ecosystem
Inovacijos / Innovations
Government
Atsakingi moksliniai tyrimai ir inovacijos
Responsible Research and Innovation
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment

business.industry
Stakeholder
innovation ecosystem
Environmental sciences
Sustainability
Socialinis kapitalas
Lenkija (Lenkijos karalystė
Rzeczpospolita Polska
Kingdom of Poland
Poland)
social capital
business
Zdroj: Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 9901, p 9901 (2021)
Sustainability (Basel) 2021, 13, 9901
Sustainability
Volume 13
Issue 17
ISSN: 2071-1050
Popis: Symbolic narratives, such as an “ivory tower”, a “grey zone”, or a “black box” tell us about the gap between university and society, and academia and industry. Recently, they have been replaced by the Quadruple Helix model, which closes the gap by connecting four main stakeholders—government, university, industry, and society, into an innovation ecosystem. However, the roles of the different stakeholders are often blurred and difficult to define, and it is difficult to develop a basic approach to implement responsible innovations in industrial ecosystems in general. On the other hand, the interactions between stakeholder groups, especially universities and industry, are not sufficiently demonstrated in both scientific literature and empirical studies. We note that the responsible research and innovation (RRI) approach should facilitate a framework of shared taxonomy among stakeholders. By highlighting this situation, we follow the paradigm of emerging thinking and we seek to fill this knowledge gap theoretically and empirically. Therefore, in this study, we combined several strategies and perspectives. First, we conducted survey research concerning social capital in Poland and Lithuania to understand the impact of social capital and trust on stakeholder cooperation. Second, we conducted interviews with scientists who actively work to transfer knowledge into industry. Third, we utilized field notes from working experiences in research management. This work has theoretical and practical implications. The theoretical contribution of the paper demonstrates the construction of methodology based on emerging perspectives, and new theoretical insights, on professional discourses for implementing the responsible innovation approach in industrial ecosystems, by highlighting the commitments of main stakeholder groups. Practical input: our insights and empirical research will contribute toward sustainability policymaking and achieving substantial results in industrial ecosystems. The results indicate that if there is trust, then the government, companies, and society (in Poland and Lithuania) would be willing to cooperate with each other. However, there is a lack of trust and cooperation between universities and businesses. Stakeholders have become increasingly aware of the emergence of a science and industry cooperation as an open platform, enlarged with society and policies. They note the problem of making research public and transparent as part of a new mode of cooperation
however, they articulate RRI as a framework of shared taxonomy.
Databáze: OpenAIRE