Towards the right standards: The intersection of open science, responsible research and innovation, and standards

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  • Michele S. Garfinkel Head of the Science Policy Programme at EMBO (Heidelberg, Germany).

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.11.16103

Keywords:

standards, open science, responsible research and innovation

Abstract

The introduction of standards in research and development leading to new products or innovative processes can be thought of as a particularly technical approach to framing scientific enterprises. At the other end of the spectrum, open science or responsible research and innovation may be initially thought of as concepts with no underlying technical approaches to support them. In reality as currently practiced, the development and use of standards engages significant non-technical aspects, needing to take into account research cultures or desired societal outcomes. Similarly, open science, and responsible research and innovation can operate using very practical and technical approaches. This essay focuses at the intersections of these concepts to try to contribute to larger discussions in both the research and governance communities as to how researchers should conduct their research, and what respective responsibilities of researchers, their institutes, and their supporters are.

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Author Biography

Michele S. Garfinkel, Head of the Science Policy Programme at EMBO (Heidelberg, Germany).

She is head of the Science Policy Programme at EMBO (Heidelberg, Germany). Her major areas of policy research are biotechnology, responsible conduct of research, and scientific publishing. Previously she was a policy analyst at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Her research there focused on identifying emerging societal concerns associated with new discoveries in genomics, particularly synthetic biology. She was a research fellow at the Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Columbia University, and earlier was a research associate at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Michele holds a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Washington, an A.B. from the University of California (Berkeley), and an M. A. in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from the George Washington University. She is an elected Fellow of the AAAS.

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2021-01-21

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Garfinkel, M. S. (2021). Towards the right standards: The intersection of open science, responsible research and innovation, and standards. Metode Science Studies Journal, (11), 99–103. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.11.16103
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Science's structures (2021)

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Standards. The building blocks of complexity

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