About this course


How can you assess and address uncertainties, potential risks and public and ethical concerns surrounding your innovation projects? How can you ensure that new products and services are safe? How can your innovation strategy achieve commitment from all stakeholders and enhance competitiveness and profitability?

Responsible Innovation (RI) enables companies to anticipate social and ethical issues and integrate them into their innovation and design processes and business strategy right from the start. This has a number of advantages:

  • ensures that appropriate measures are taken to prevent/reduce potential risks from developments in science and technology, including unintended consequences, security and transparency issues.
  • strengthens public trust in the safety of products.
  • enhances the company’s reputation and contributes to a motivated workforce.
  • increases medium-term competitiveness and profitability.


Learning Formats: Videos
Institutions: Delft University of Technology