Draft Outline For Responsible Innovation Workshop, April / May 2011

Franco-British workshop on responsible innovation London, 23-24 May 2011
11.40: Roundtable session - UK and French experiences compared in the governance of specific areas of
science and innovation
Gary KASS (Principal Specialist in Strategic Futures, Natural England)
Françoise RUSSO-MARIE (Diretor Génopôle d’Evry, Research Department)
Roundtable sessions will be run as case studies, each tackling a specific emerging area of science and
innovation (a) Physical sciences and nanotechnology, (b) Health and life sciences, (c) Environment and
low carbon energies, (d) Information technologies and communications, to answer the following
questions :
What forms of governance and regulation have been applied in the area of emerging
technology / innovation?
What have we learned?
What recommendations can we make?
12.40: Feedback from roundtables
13.00: Networking lunch
Session 6:
From concepts to practice: implementation
Nicola GOLDBERG (Portfolio Manager, EPSRC, Engineering and Physical Science Research Council)
Jean-Pierre CHEVALIER (Agence nationale pour la recherche)
14.00: Plenary discussion - Introduction of the theme for the afternoon
Learning from the discussions and presentations during the workshop, each roundtable is a ‘steering
group’ for a new major R&D (part public and part private funded) initiative of 50M€ in one of the
following areas: (a) next generation nanomaterials, (b) synthetic biology, (c) geoengineering, (d) next
generation web technologies.
They must decide what they will ask should be included in the programme to ensure a responsible
innovation approach and identify challenges and barriers to implementation for actors in the process.
15.00: Feedback from each group
15.20: Coffee/tea break
15.40: Workshop wrap-up
Andy GIBBS (Head of Education, Economy, Business and Society Research team, ESRC,
Economic and Social Research Centre)
16.10: Workshop close
Serge PLATTARD
Maggy HEINTZ
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