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Perspectives of COPD patients, publicly funded scientists, and industry representatives on responsibility and stakeholder engagement in drug discovery research
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Helen Yu
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume: 11, Issue: 1
Swansea University Author: Helen Yu
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/23299460.2024.2316363
Abstract
Ensuring societal influence in research and innovation through stakeholder engagement is vital in the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) framework. By studying a drug discovery project, we examine how stakeholders can influence drug discovery and development meaningfully. Through semi-structu...
| Published in: | Journal of Responsible Innovation |
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| ISSN: | 2329-9460 2329-9037 |
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Informa UK Limited
2024
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70611 |
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Ensuring societal influence in research and innovation through stakeholder engagement is vital in the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) framework. By studying a drug discovery project, we examine how stakeholders can influence drug discovery and development meaningfully. Through semi-structured interviews, we explore: How do patients as potential users of a new drug, the scientists who discover it, and the industry that might develop it, think about responsibility and stakeholder engagement in drug discovery? Most of the responses voiced by our informants about responsibility and stakeholder engagement relate to the broader institutional and political context of health-related innovation, rather than the specific research project. We argue, that in order to make stakeholder engagement work within some forms of drug discovery research, it should be used as a forum for mobilizing political and organizational debate, taking critical dialogues beyond project-specific engagement in innovation. |
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| Keywords: |
Responsible Research and Innovation; stakeholder engagement; drug discovery; science-society relations; semi-structured interviews |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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This work was supported by the Research Council of Norway under [grant number 294594]. |
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1 |