Responsible innovation ecosystem governance: socio-technical integration research for systems-level capacity building

Calls for a ‘systemic turn’ in Responsible Innovation and Research (R(R)I) stem from unease with engagement research. Engagement research structures science-society interactions to align innovation processes societal considerations. As this often focuses on micro practices of actors at discrete events or bounded environments, it tends neglect the systemic nature these processes. We introduce ecosystem concept account complexity, openness, mutual learning responsible governance. governance refers here capacity diverse reflect socio-ethical horizons different streams ecosystem. For systems-level building, we discuss three adaptations Socio-Technical Integration (STIR): STIR workshops curated by agents, multi-stream through brokers, multi-method design addressing networked responsibility. This methodological introduces an perspective R(R)I