Responsible Innovation for Business - what, how and why | Dr. Vincent Blok MBA
“I tend to look at responsible innovation as a process. It would be great if a company says “I want to contribute to one of the sustainable development goals”. I think that’s great. But, the main question is: how the hell are we doing that? A sustainable development goal is a goal. How do we engage in a process of our innovation to get to this goal?”
A short history of innovation and the rise of responsible innovation - with RI application examples including big tech and FMCG.
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Vincent Blok (1970) is a Dutch philosopher working as an associate professor at Wageningen University (The Netherlands).
Topics covered:
What is innovation?
How innovation was professionalized
Role of Social Scientists and
What is the difference between ethics/business ethics vs responsible innovation
x3 QUESTIONS Business Leaders can ask themselves to jet start RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS
Are companies ready for Responsible Innovation?
Do roles within an organisation need to change? Do we need new roles to do RI (to cover the social logic)?
How would RI work in practice?
RI challenges, and how to overcome them
Is there a less obvious way to drive responsible innovation?
Kingpins for Responsible Innovation?
Responsible Innovation Food Sector Example - Reduce Obesity and Diabetes.
RI vs B-Corp, UN SDGs, Social Enterprise - what's the difference
Are there companies that won't benefit from RI?
Responsible Innovation - the case of Facebook
About Vincent:
Vincent Blok (1970) is a Dutch philosopher working as an associate professor at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He is also the director of the 4TU.Ethics Graduate School in The Netherlands. In 2005 he received his PhD in philosophy at Leiden University with a specialization in the philosophy of technology. From 2006-2010, he was CEO of an international research institute in sustainable agriculture, nutrition and health care. With seven PhD candidates and four Post-docs, he reflects on the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of philosophical Method (Routledge, 2019), The Critique of Management. Toward a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management (Routledge, 2021), From World to Earth. Philosophical Ecology of a threatened Planet (Boom, 2022 (in Dutch)). Blok published over a hundred articles in high-ranked philosophy journals like Environmental Values, Business Ethics Quarterly, Synthese and Philosophy & Technology, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Journal of Cleaner Production, Public understanding of Science and Journal of Responsible Innovation.
Learn more about Vincent:
Personal work portfolio: https://vincentblok.nl/
4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology: https://ethicsandtechnology.eu/
Wageningen University: https://research.wur.nl/en/persons/vincent-blok
