@inbook{206d9c4a1b8e4f279b83f7ca572d1797,
title = "Towards Sustainable and Responsible Regional Innovation Policy—the Case of Tampere Region",
abstract = "The sustainability of regional development largely depends on the balance between social, economic and environmental processes. This paper presents the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) methodology as a regional policy tool that facilitates democratization of research and innovation processes and involves the public in bringing direction and more versatile insights into processes. In other words, among other things, it is supposed to help solve problems related to the pressing economic, social and environmental challenges of our time. This chapter uses data gathered from a development project conducted in Tampere region, Finland, to discuss benefits, challenges and good practices related to adopting the RRI methodology. The region has approximately 35 years of history with various innovation policies, from science parks and cluster policy to platform policy aimed at forming a sustainable and responsible innovation ecosystem. Sources of data include desk research, regional maturity mapping and an interactive workshop. The results show that maturity mapping, despite the challenges that arise, is useful for indicating areas of intervention to strengthen the RRI in regional innovation policy. As a part of a regional innovation policy strategy, Open Innovation Platforms can be a useful tool for implementing certain aspects of RRI in regional policy.",
keywords = "Open innovation platforms, Regional innovation policy, Responsible research and innovation, Sustainability",
author = "Anna Martikainen and Mika Kautonen and Mika Raunio",
note = "Funding Information: Tampere region is characterized by a high number of networks and high involvement of regional authorities in these networks, both of a formal and informal character. The region has a long tradition of establishing Open Innovation Platforms, such as Health HUB (promoting RRI in the medical industry), Demola (with a strong component of open access, as well as science education and equality), Inno-Oppiva (with a strong emphasis on ethics and science education) and Koklaamo (with a strong involvement of citizens). At the University of Tampere operates an Ethics Committee of Tampere region, which connects different fields of research and organizations to give opinions about ethical aspects of research. There are also committees related to particular topics, for example bioethics. RRI is supported by various projects, such as MARIE, 6Aika and various Open Innovation Platforms. There is also financing for projects related to responsible business models and sustainability, such as a circular economy. However, promoting RRI per se only started recently. Due to a lack of agreement between stakeholders taking part in the focus group, the governance maturity level was estimated as moderate/substantial. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-78825-4_17",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-78824-7",
series = "World Sustainability Series",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "279--294",
editor = "{Leal Filho}, Walter and Krasnov, {Eugene V.} and Gaeva, {Dara V.}",
booktitle = "Innovations and Traditions for Sustainable Development",
}