PRISMA: Piloting Responsible Research & Innovation in Industry

The PRISMA project has conducted pilot studies with 8 companies in order to help them to better integrate Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) in their innovation process and business practices. These pilots have provided case studies and good practices on RRI.

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The PRISMA Toolkit for Responsible Research & Innovation

The PRISMA Project has delivered a toolkit for small or medium-sized companies that aspire to develop innovative products and services with which genuine societal needs are addressed and a contribution is made to both environmental and economic sustainability.

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PRISMA Pilot Results: Cases & Best Practices

The goal of the PRISMA-project was to draw specific lessons about how RRI can be implemented in industry, ranging from small enterprises to large corporations to consortia with universities. To this end, the project included cooperation with 8 different companies in the field of automated cars, internet technology, drones, biotechnology, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology.

Status of this website

The PRISMA project ran from 2016-2019, so this website is no longer maintained.
However, we keep it online because the info may still be useful to you.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 710059.

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Innovation Meets Sustainability & Responsibility

Final PRISMA Conference, Brussels, 27 June 2019

More info on the event

PRISMA developed a road map/methodology to integrate values, societal impact, safety, sustainability and trust in the innovation policies of companies. The structured methodology is the result of eight pilots in companies that are all active in upcoming technologies (nanotechnologies, synthetic biology, Internet of things, and autonomous vehicles). The methodology – and a number of examples- were resented in this final event of the PRISMA project.

More information: Maria Maia (ITAS-KIT). e-mail: PRISMA-final-event@itas.kit.edu

Pilot Companies

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Responses of Companies to the Pilots

I think the main lesson that we have learned from the pilot is you can’t innovate in a vacuum. We have tried to do it for some time but you need others. You get the best results when you involve others.
Timothy van Langeveld, head legal council & regulatory affairs of Aerialtronics
With PRISMA we learned the importance of focusing on the ethical and social impacts of NanoMed since the early phases of the development, to become responsive and trustworthy toward needs and requests from users and society. This experience has convinced us of the strategic value of RRI for NanoMed and our organization.
Giovanni Baldi , Director, Ce.Ri.Col – Colorobbia Consulting Research Centre
This program really allowed us to join a community of academic, government industry and friends who are all committed to RRI.
Stephan Herrera, VP Evolva
As part of our project work that we’ve done with the PRISMA project, we’ve been audited effectively against certain criteria that were generated from the PRISMA project, to see how responsible our innovation is at RDM
Simon Brewerton, CTO of RDM

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Overview participation PRISMA in external events

Aug 30, 2019

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The PRISMA MOOC is now live – “Responsible Innovation; Building Tomorrow’s Responsible Firms”

May 24, 2019

Join our MOOC titled Building tomorrow's responsible firms. Here is the leaflet: RI - Building Tomorrows Responsible Firms - MOOC flyer. This is the syllabus: Syllabus MOOC Building Tomorrow's Responsible Firms

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