O'Donovan, C;
Baudrin, M;
Cuevas-Garcia, C;
Lipp, B;
Niebch, L;
(2019)
Two Hands on the Wheel: Steering Robotics Innovation in Useful Directions.
Presented at: 4S 2019, New Orleans, LA, USA.
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Abstract
Practices of innovation are not autonomous. Research in STS and innovation studies has shown both the speed of knowledge production, and crucially its direction, may be susceptible to change. Indeed, interventions to the rate and direction of innovation are crucial if we are to address address the transformations needed in the economy and wider society that might for example avoid the extremes of climate change and meet the sustainable development goals. Yet interventions in these regards remain inexact. Innovation policy is one way in which government seeks to drive the production of policy towards or away from specific ends. Recent initiatives such as efforts to include "co-creation" have sought to open up innovation practices to a wider range of actors, broadening participation. But what arrangements of objects, sites, publics, and concepts do these instruments create? And how might these arrangements contribute to the laudable if lofty goals of steering innovation in useful directions? The paper follows two innovation instruments designed to influence innovation in the domain of robotics; the establishment of a "certified testbed" and a "co-creation facility". The paper asks how do co-creation instruments in the field of robotics steer innovation towards social progress or otherwise? Using a situated analysis method, this paper traces the two instruments in and around a single robotics innovation facility in the United Kingdom.
Type: | Conference item (Presentation) |
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Title: | Two Hands on the Wheel: Steering Robotics Innovation in Useful Directions |
Event: | 4S 2019 |
Location: | New Orleans, LA, USA |
Dates: | 04 - 07 September 2019 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://www.4s2019.org/ |
Language: | English |
Keywords: | innovation, innovation policy, robotics, science and technology studies, testbeds, social care |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089897 |
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