Jensen Eric A
ICoRSA, Cork, Ireland.
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Open Res Eur. 2023 Aug 2;2:36. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.14232.2. eCollection 2022.
As calls for more socially responsible research and innovation (RRI) policies and practices grow more insistent, the need for high-quality indicators that can be used to evaluate progress is becoming increasingly important. Given the global nature of science, such indicators need to be relevant to countries across all world regions. Moreover, the methodological quality of indicators is critical to provide a strong foundation for long-term comparative measurement of the impacts of different kinds of policy intervention. There is a practical challenge here, given the uneven mechanisms for data collection and analysis available in different countries. There is also a geopolitical challenge in gaining buy-in from countries with very different, and sometimes competing, agendas. Here, the 2017 UNESCO-led Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers is highlighted as an existing vehicle that can enable cooperation on globally comparative measurement of socially responsible research and innovation. In particular, the quadrennial monitoring of the implementation of this wide-ranging global policy instrument that has been ratified by 195 countries affords a unique opportunity to add value for these countries by linking RRI to the 2017 Recommendation while establishing benchmark indicators for RRI more generally. As a practical and methodological contribution to the global community of science and innovation policymakers, researchers and research and innovation stakeholders committed to socially responsible research, this report contains detailed survey questions and response options focusing on public opinion and individual researchers' level of measurement. It provides details of sources of benchmark survey data that have readily available open data that can be used to benchmark the development of socially responsible research and innovation over time from the vantage points of the public and researchers around the world. The aim of this kind of science ecosystem-level indicators framework is to enable evidence-based practice in socially responsible research and innovation.
随着对更具社会责任感的研究与创新（RRI）政策及实践的呼声日益强烈，用于评估进展的高质量指标的需求变得愈发重要。鉴于科学的全球性，此类指标需要与世界所有地区的国家相关。此外，指标的方法质量对于为不同类型政策干预影响的长期比较衡量提供坚实基础至关重要。鉴于不同国家数据收集和分析机制参差不齐，这里存在一个实际挑战。在从议程差异极大、有时甚至相互竞争的国家获得认可方面也存在地缘政治挑战。在此，2017年由联合国教科文组织主导的《关于科学和科研人员的建议书》被视为一种现有工具，它能够促成在对社会责任感研究与创新进行全球比较衡量方面的合作。特别是，对这一已被195个国家批准的广泛全球政策文书实施情况的四年期监测提供了一个独特机遇，通过将RRI与2017年建议书相联系，同时更广泛地为RRI确立基准指标，为这些国家增添价值。作为对致力于社会责任感研究的全球科学与创新政策制定者、研究人员以及研究与创新利益相关者群体的一项实践和方法贡献，本报告包含了侧重于公众舆论和个体研究人员衡量水平的详细调查问题及回答选项。它提供了基准调查数据来源的详细信息，这些数据具有随时可用的开放数据，可用于从全球公众和研究人员的视角衡量社会责任感研究与创新随时间的发展情况。这种科学生态系统层面的指标框架旨在推动社会责任感研究与创新中的循证实践。
