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Jonny Hankins of the Bassetti Foundation posted a blog about the first annual meeting of the Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI), held 14 – 16 July, 2015, in Sussex, UK. 

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) hosted the Fourth International Conference on Responsible Innovation in The Hague, Netherlands 24 – 25 August 2015. Jonny Hankins of the Bassetti Foundation posted a blog about the event here.  

Tsjalling Swierstra, professor of philosophy at Maastricht University (Netherlands), gave the keynote address at the Third International Conference on Responsible Innovation in The Hague, Netherlands. His lecture covered the typical aspects of responsible innovation research, what separates it from market research, and what makes it necessary now.
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Innovation Excellence has published Jonny Hankins' review of the inaugural issue of the Journal of Responsible Innovation. His review guides readers through the issue with a brief summary of and commentary on each article. 

Hankins provides a brief summary of and response to each article in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Responsible Innovation. 

The National Science Foundation recently announced a grant of nearly $500,000 to establish a new Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI) at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU (CNS-ASU).