Franco-British workshop on responsible innovation From concepts to practice 23-24 May 2011 The Residence of the French Ambassador to Great Britain and Northern Ireland 11 Kensington Palace Gardens LONDON W8 4QP Convenors Maggy HEINTZ Scientific attaché, physical sciences and innovation office +44 (0) 20 7073 1392 mobile +44 (0)7758 317 876 maggy.heintz@ambascience.co.uk Serge PLATTARD Science and technology counsellor office +44 (0) 20 7073 1391 mobile +44 (0)7703 187 986 serge.plattard@ambascience.co.uk 1
PROGRAMME Day 1 9.15: Registration and Coffee/tea 9.45: Welcome address Bernard EMIE, French Ambassador Mark SINCLAIR, Science and Innovation department, British Embassy Paris Session 1: Definitions and concepts of responsible science and innovation Jack STILGOE (Senior Policy Adviser, Royal Society Science Policy Centre) 10.00: 21 st Century Innovation and Entrepreneurship John BESSANT (Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Exeter University Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer - Exeter University) 10.20: Innovation in society Pierre-Benoît JOLY (Senior Research Fellow INRA/SenS and IFRIS, Paris) 10.40: Defining Responsible Innovation: what, who and how Judith PETTS (Dean, Social and Human Sciences University of Southampton, member of the former Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution) 11.00: Responsible innovation from an EU Commission Perspective Gilles LAROCHE (DG Research and Innovation, Head of the governance and ethics unit, EC) 11.20: Coffee/tea break 11.40: Promoting responsible innovation: constructive technology assessment and the Dutch experience Arie RIP (Technology Assessment of Nanotechnology, University of Twente) 12.00: Responsible innovation R&D : the US experience Erik FISHER (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University) 12.20: An initial cross UK Research Council Framework for responsible innovation Richard OWEN (European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter) 12.40: Responsible innovation: the French experience Rémi BARRE (Professor of Science Policy,CNAM) 13.00: Networking lunch 2
Session 2: Responsible science and innovation: case studies of emerging technologies Robert FALKNER (Senior Lecturer in International Relations - London School of Economics and Political Science) Xavier PAVIE (Senior Researcher, Executive director, ESSEC-ISIS) 14.00: Plenary session-introduction of the theme for the afternoon How do we move from innovation to responsible innovation? What tools and approaches can we bring together? What is the current state of the science in this area? What challenges are there for their implementation? What current areas of emerging science and innovation can we apply these to, and how? Who should take these forward? 14.10: Roundtable session How do you define responsible innovation? What key principles should underpin a responsible innovation approach? What have we learnt from experiences with this specific emerging area of technology? What role do you, as individuals, does your organisation / institution have in the context of responsible innovation? How should we proceed? 15.10: Rapporteurs feedback to plenary 15.40: Coffee/tea break Session 3: Innovation and emerging technologies: opening up the debate Nikolas ROSE (Professor of Sociology - London School of Economics and Political Science) Manoelle LEPOUTRE (Senior Vice President, Sustainable Development and Environment, TOTAL) 16.00: New technologies in society: opening up the debate Kathy SYKES (Professor of Science and Society, Bristol University) 16.20: French experiences in public engagement around new technologies Jean-Luc PUJOL (Environment and society, INRA) 16.40 Roundtable session - UK and French experiences compared in the field of dialogue and engagement concerning new technologies: Phil MACNAGHTEN (Professor of Geography, Durham University) Dominique PECCOUD (Membre de l académie des technologies) What engagement and dialogue activities have been done in each country? What have we learned and how should we proceed? 3
17.20: Feedback from roundtables 17.40: Wrap up and summary of day 1 Andy STIRLING (Research Director at SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex) Pierre-Benoît JOLY (Senior Research Fellow INRA/SenS and IFRIS, Paris) 18.00: End day 1 Day 2 Session 4 Responsible and safe design Safe design of next generation nanomaterials as a case study Richard HANDY (School of biomedical and biological sciences, Plymouth) Daniel BLOCH (Medical advisor for nanomaterials, CEA) 09.00: Safe design and public engagement around nanotechnologies Christophe VIEU (Professor of Physics and Researcher, LAAS, Toulouse) 09.20: Beyond Nanoparticles: next generation nanomaterials. What are the next generation nanomaterials and in what sectors? Peter DOBSON (Director of Oxford University s Begbroke Science Park, RCUK Nanotechnologies Champion) 9.40: Designing in safety for next generation nanomaterials: learning from experiences with nanoparticles Ken DONALDSON (ELEGI Colt Laboratory, Edinburgh) 10.00 : Safe design of next generation nanomaterials for consumer products Daniel BERNARD (Senior scientific advisor, ARKEMA) 10.20: Coffee/tea break Session 5: Adaptive governance and regulation of disruptive innovation Catherine LARRIEU (Chef de délégation au développement durable, MEDDTL) 10.40: Regulation of disruptive innovation: UK experiences Robert LEE (Co-director ESRC Centre on Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society centre) 11.00: French Experiences concerning the governance of new technologies Alexei GRINBAUM (Researcher, CEA Saclay) 11.20: Governance of emerging technologies Steve RAYNER (Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford University, Saïd Business School) 4
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) 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 5