Observatory for Responsible Innovation
The Observatory for Responsible Innovation is an independent international think tank. It is created with the purpose of thinking and debating new measures, concepts and methods to foster responsibility in innovation. The Observatory defends the view that, today, innovating means coping with and accounting for innovation’s unforeseen externalities and risks, and that the value of innovation is a complex, controversial and, above all, collective issue. The Observatory seeks at accompanying a move towards a culture of responsible innovation in that direction.
The Observatory is based at Mines ParisTech, the Ecole des Mines de Paris. It benefits from the school’s experience in tackling innovation. It aims at assembling an international network of concerned actors: researchers from various backgrounds, practitioners from a variety of industrial sectors, actors involved in public policy at local and global levels, and contributors to the funding of the initiative.
The Observatory promotes debate through its forthcoming periodic publication Debating Innovation, its weblog, and also its yearly international conference and special events and encounters. It signals smart initiatives in responsible innovation through its yearly prize, the Dufrénoy Prize for Responsible Innovation. It develops policy initiatives through dedicated working groups. The Observatory is attentive to responsible innovation in a variety of sectors, but concentrates efforts on one particularly pressing domain each year.
The Observatory is funded primarily by the FI3M, the Foundation of Mines ParisTech. The FI3M manages individual and institutional donations for the development of projects linked to Mines ParisTech. Contact us for further information about how to fund and promote the continuity of the Observatory for Responsible Innovation.
