Addressing Climate Change in Responsible Research and Innovation: Recommendations for Its Operationalization
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2018-06
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Ligardo-Herrera, Ivan
Gómez-Navarro, Tomás
Inigo, Edurne A.
Blok, Vincent
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MDPI Open Access Publishing
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Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has only lately included environmental
sustainability as a key area for the social desirability of research and innovation. That is one of
the reasons why just a few RRI projects and proposals include environmental sustainability, and
Climate Change (CC) in particular. CC is one of the grand challenges of our time and, thus, this paper
contributes to the operationalization of CC prevention in RRI. To this end, the tools employed against
CC were identified. Tools originated in corporate social responsibility and sustainable innovation
which help to operationalize strategies against CC in RRI practice. Complementarily, the latest
proposals by RRI projects and actors related to CC were reviewed. The findings of the document
analysis and the web review were arranged in a framework intended for research and innovation that
has an indirect but relevant negative impact due to CC. Thus, four main strategies for CC prevention
in RRI were determined: a voluntary integration of the aims, a life cycle perspective, open access
databases and key performance indicators, and stakeholder management. The article is finished
acknowledging diverse barriers hindering the operationalization of CC prevention in RRI, and we
introduce future avenues for research in this area.
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Responsible research and innovation, Climate change, Sustainable innovation, Corporate social responsibility