Responsible Research and Innovation

[john walls]

Hi all, The concept of responsible research and innovation (RRI)  has become a concept that both academics and funding agencies here in the Uk (and EU) are starting to ask to be part of funded synthetic biology research projects.  In fact i start working on a 5 year,  £5 million EPSRC  project on synthetic biology and water supply in January 2014 and im tasked with trying to ensire that Responsible innovation is central to the  research, i want however to start a dialogue with the DIYbio community about what this could mean in practice and how we could collectively operationalise what it can mean by working together.

anyway id be interested in peoples first thoughts on both the concept and maybe what could be done to take it forward collectively as i want there to be common ownership of it  - ive attached a pdf of a journal article that discusses the concept

cheers
John