title: Support for the Development of Technological Innovations: Promoting Responsible Social Uses.
abstract: How can technological development, economic development, and the claims from society be reconciled? How should responsible innovation be promoted? The "responsible social uses" approach proposed here was devised with these considerations in view. In this article, a support procedure for promoting responsible social uses (RSU) is set out and presented. First, the context in which this procedure emerged, which incorporates features of both the user-experience approach and that of ethical acceptability in technological development, is specified. Next, the characteristic features of the procedure are presented, that is, its purpose, fundamental orientation, and component parts as experimented by partners. Third, the RSU approach is compared with other support approaches and considered in term of how each approach assumes responsible innovation. Briefly, the RSU procedure is a way of addressing the issue of responsible innovation through an effective integration of social concerns.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Law, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.|Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation (3IT), Université de Sherbrooke, 3000 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 0A5, Canada.
authors.forename: Georges A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Legault
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation (3IT), Université de Sherbrooke, 3000 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 0A5, Canada.|Engineer Researcher at CNRS-UMI 3463-LN2 (Unité Mixte Internationale - Laboratoire Nanotechnologie et Nanosystèmes), Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Verchère
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation (3IT), Université de Sherbrooke, 3000 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 0A5, Canada. Johane.Patenaude@USherbrooke.ca.|Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. Johane.Patenaude@USherbrooke.ca.
authors.forename: Johane
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6721-9697
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Patenaude
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004738:Engineering; D006801:Humans; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D013672:Technology
keywords: Applied ethics; Corporate social responsibility (CSR); E3LS issues; Responsible social uses approach; Social acceptability; Supporting technological development; User experience