Science Advanced through Virtual Institutes (SAVI): Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation

该项目的目标是建立研究基础设施，一个负责任的创新虚拟研究所。“负责任的创新”的含义在不断演变，但大致上是指一个参与过程，在这个过程中，利益攸关方和创新者进行相互响应的对话，以产生社会可接受的创新过程和产品。建议中的研究所将特别专注于纳米技术和其他新兴技术，如合成生物学和地球工程学。智力优势虚拟研究所将促进负责任的创新合作，涉及美国、英国、荷兰、德国、丹麦、挪威、巴西和加拿大的学者和从业人员。尽管在地理和政治文化上存在分歧，但该研究所将促进负责任创新的研究，培训和推广，并在这样做的过程中，它将在高度不确定性，高风险和伴随着新奇的挑战性社会问题主导的条件下，为新兴技术的治理做出贡献。潜在的更广泛影响虚拟研究所项目将加快负责任的创新工作，这反过来又将有助于加强更广泛社区的深思熟虑的价值观与政策决定和科学技术发展进程之间的联系。它还将协助对学生和博士后进行负责任创新的国际、协作和比较方面的培训，并将开发一个动态网站和一个关于负责任创新的虚拟研究生课程，供研究所内外讲授。与美国NAE、IEEE和Bassetti基金会等公共和私营机构的合作伙伴关系将导致成果向相关利益相关者社区的广泛传播和实质性互动。这被指定为跨虚拟研究所科学奖（SAVI），由NSF的国际和综合活动办公室共同资助。

IntroductionThe goal of this project is to build research infrastructure, a virtual institute for responsible innovation. The meaning of "responsible innovation" is evolving, but roughly the term refers to a process of engagement in which stakeholders and innovators engage in mutually responsive dialogues that serve to bring about socially acceptable innovation processes and products. The proposed institute will focus specifically on nanotechnology and other emerging technologies such as synthetic biology and geo-engineering.Intellectual MeritThe virtual institute will facilitate collaborative work on responsible innovation involving members of a coalescing community of scholars and practitioners in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Brazil and Canada. Despite divides in geography and political culture, the institute will facilitate research, training, and outreach on responsible innovation and, in doing so, it will contribute to the governance of emerging technologies under conditions dominated by high uncertainty, high stakes, and challenging societal questions that accompany novelty. Potential Broader ImpactsThe virtual institute project will accelerate work on responsible innovation, which will in turn serve to enhance connections between the considered values of the wider community and the processes of policy decisions and science and technology development. It will also contribute to the training of students and post-docs in the international, collaborative and comparative aspects of responsible innovation, and it will develop a dynamic web site and a virtual graduate course on responsible innovation to be taught across the Institute and beyond. Partnerships with public and private institutions such as US NAE, IEEE, and the Bassetti Foundation will result in wide dissemination of results to and substantive interactions with relevant stakeholder communities.This is designated as a Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) award and is co-funded by NSF's Office of International and Integrative Activities.