Völker Thomas, Mazzonetto Marzia, Slaattelid Rasmus, Strand Roger
Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
BE Participation, Brussels, Belgium.
Front Res Metr Anal. 2023 Jan 9;7:1038970. doi: 10.3389/frma.2022.1038970. eCollection 2022.
By a series of calls within the Horizon 2020 framework programme, the EU funded projects intended to deploy Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) at a territorial level, in regional research and innovation ecosystems. This paper presents efforts to document and evaluate the achievements in TRANSFORM, one of these projects.
Evaluative inquiry and theoretical reasoning.
Noting the need for a general principle to be interpreted, adapted and translated in order to be rendered meaningful at a local level, we studied precisely these multiple territorial translations of RRI, the organizational and institutional orderings with which they co-emerge and the challenges that come with these translations. An important shared feature is that RRI work does not start from zero, but rather builds on pre-existing relationships and repertoires of collaboration. The RRI project is hence a way to continue ongoing work and follow pre-set purposes, aims and objectives, as a form of "maintenance work". In this very human sense, RRI is deployed with a logic of care in the regional context, while the Horizon 2020 calls and proposals above all are formulated in a logic of choice, to be assessed by indicators.
We warn against undue standardization of RRI by toolification and use of quantitative indicators, and recommend that RRI performance is monitored by methods of evaluative inquiry.
通过“地平线2020”框架计划中的一系列呼吁，欧盟资助了一些项目，旨在在区域研究与创新生态系统的地域层面上部署负责任的研究与创新（RRI）。本文介绍了对其中一个项目“TRANSFORM”的成果进行记录和评估的工作。
评估性探究与理论推理。
注意到需要对一项通用原则进行解释、调整和转化，以便在地方层面上具有意义，我们精确研究了RRI在地域层面上的这些多重转化、与之共同出现的组织和制度秩序以及这些转化所带来的挑战。一个重要的共同特征是，RRI工作并非从零开始，而是建立在既有的关系和合作模式之上。因此，RRI项目是一种延续正在进行的工作并遵循预先设定的宗旨、目标和目的的方式，是一种“维护工作”形式。从这个非常人性化的意义上讲，RRI是在区域背景下以一种关怀逻辑来部署的，而“地平线2020”的呼吁和提案首先是按照一种选择逻辑制定的，要通过指标进行评估。
我们警告不要通过工具化和使用定量指标对RRI进行过度标准化，并建议通过评估性探究方法来监测RRI的绩效。
