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

这个项目的目标是建立研究基础设施，一个负责任的创新的虚拟研究所。“负责任的创新”的含义正在演变，但大致而言，该术语指的是一个参与过程，在这个过程中，利益相关者和创新者进行相互响应的对话，以实现社会可接受的创新过程和产品。拟议中的研究所将特别关注纳米技术和其他新兴技术，如合成生物学和地球工程。这个虚拟研究所将促进美国、英国、荷兰、德国、丹麦、挪威、巴西和加拿大的学者和实践者在负责任创新方面的合作。尽管地理和政治文化存在差异，但该研究所将促进负责任创新的研究、培训和推广，并在此过程中，它将有助于在高度不确定性、高风险和伴随新颖性而来的具有挑战性的社会问题占主导地位的条件下治理新兴技术。潜在的更广泛影响虚拟学院项目将加速负责任创新的工作，这反过来将有助于加强更广泛的社会考虑的价值观与政策决策过程和科学技术发展之间的联系。它还将有助于在负责任创新的国际、合作和比较方面培训学生和博士后，并将开发一个动态的网站和一个关于负责任创新的虚拟研究生课程，供整个研究所和其他机构教授。与美国NAE、IEEE和Bassetti基金会等公共和私营机构的伙伴关系将导致成果广泛传播，并与相关利益相关者社区进行实质性互动。该项目被指定为跨虚拟研究所（SAVI）科学奖，由美国国家科学基金会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.