Company strategies for responsible research and innovation (RRI): A conceptual model

Ibo van de Poel; Lotte Asveld; Steven Flipse; Pim Klaassen; Victor Scholten; Emad Yaghmaei

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Company strategies for responsible research and innovation (RRI): A conceptual model

Ibo van de Poel^*, Lotte Asveld, Steven Flipse, Pim Klaassen, Victor Scholten, Emad Yaghmaei

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Responsible research and innovation (RRI) has become an important topic in the academic community and in policy circles, but it has not yet been systematically included in the innovation process of companies. We discuss how companies can integrate RRI into their corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and business strategy. To this end, we developed a conceptual model that links a company's RRI strategy to its context, and that helps to translate the RRI strategy into activities that result in RRI outcomes. We also propose a process for developing company-specific RRI key performance indicators (KPIs) that can support companies to measure RRI outcomes.

Original language	English
Article number	2045
Journal	Sustainability
Volume	9
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su9112045
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Acceptance
Business strategy
Code of conduct
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Ethics
Industry
Innovation
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Pilot
Responsible research and innovation (RRI)

UN SDGs

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