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Responsible Innovation News and VIRI Press 
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June 16, 2015 |
Rivista Formazione, Lavoro, Persona
Jonny Hankins, foreign correspondent for the Bassetti Foundation for Responsible Innovation, has published a paper in the Italian journal/magazine Formazione, Lavoro, Persona (http://www.forperlav.eu/), a University of Bergamo publication. The paper, "The GM Food Debate Within Responsible Innovation," has been published in a special issue about food to celebrate the EXPO in Milan and is free to download here: http://www.unibg.it/dati/bacheca/434/75214.pdf
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May 12, 2015 |
DASTS
In their new commentary, "Improving Science-Society Dialogue Takes Practice," Maja Horst, professor and department head in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, and coauthor Sofie Carsten Nielsen, the Danish minister for Science and Higher Education, make a case for improving dialogue between researchers and citizens, discuss the challenges to doing so, and make recommendations for future dialogue efforts. You can read the commentary here: http://www.dasts.dk/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/Horst-Nielsen-2015-Improving-Science-Society-dialogue.pdf
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May 5, 2015 |
Brookings Institute
CNS-ASU Director David Guston and Walter Valdivia of the Brookings Institute have co-authored a new white paper, “Responsible Innovation: A Primer for Policymakers.” You can read it at: http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2015/05/05-responsible-innovation-valdivia-guston#.VUjUfaaK3HQ.twitter
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March 19, 2015 |
Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
On December 11 the conference on RRI, organized by VIRI member Maja Horst, was held in Copenhagen. The Danish minister of higher education gave a speech, "Research Must Not Be a Closed Circuit."
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March 17, 2015 |
Slate
While disappointed with the film’s “overly anthropomorphic and mostly implausible” portrayal of robots, CNS-ASU's Miles Brundage and co-author Jamie Winterton do appreciate the film’s attempt to capture the moral complexity of robotics research.
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March 4, 2015 |
CNS-ASU
Sarah Hartley, political scientist with the University of Nottingham, recently presented to CNS-ASU on “Governance of Emerging Technologies: Opening up Traditionally Expert Domains.” Her presentation can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/122804801
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February 16, 2015 |
VIRI
Five new members have been accepted to VIRI. They include the University of Basque Country in Spain, the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, the University of Ottawa in Canada, the University of Szeged in Hungary, and the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies in Isreal.
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February 5, 2015 |
Bassetti Organization
Jonny Hankins has posted a review of the third issue of the Journal of Responsible Innovation at Focus, a blog of the Bassetti Foundation. The issue contains commentary and articles from VIRI members David Guston, Armin Grunwald, Sujatha Raman, and Xavier Pavie.
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January 23, 2015 |
ASU News
Improved social and emotional intelligence can help scientists and engineers connect to a broader public and better tailor their research and innovation to benefit society. CNS-ASU Fellow Kaitlin Vortherms is researching the role of empathy in engineering, as well as practical approaches to increasing empathic capacity in engineers.
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January 23, 2015 |
Washington Post, NPR
CNS-ASU Director David Guston was interviewed by the Washington Post and National Public Radio's Science Friday about engineering bacteria with genetic kill switches. He reminds readers and listeners that biocontainment is only addresses one of many potential objections to the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Guston was also featured in a Washington Post blog on GMOs, a follow-up article on the Public Radio International, and a blog article in ASU's School of Law.
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