Dimension | Key indicators |
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Anticipation | Showing the capacity to ask “what if”-questions. (What is likely? What is plausible?) |
Showing the capacity to think systemically | |
Acknowledging the value of system thinking | |
Explicitly recognizing complexities and co-evolution | |
Inclusion | Recognizing and acknowledging engagement beyond key stakeholders |
Diversifying the inputs to and delivery of governance | |
Opening up framings of issues | |
Recognizing engagement as a learning process | |
Opening up discussion on future social worlds | |
Reflexivity | Being able to hold a mirror up to one’s own activities, commitments, and assumptions |
Being aware of the limits of (technical) knowledge | |
Being mindful that a particular framing of an issue may not be universally held | |
Scrutinizing value systems and theories that shape science and innovation | |
Opening up alternatives | |
Rethinking prevailing conceptions about the moral division of labour within science and innovation | |
Recognizing wider moral responsibilities | |
Responsiveness | Acknowledging the need or possibility to change shape or direction in response to stakeholder and public values and changing circumstances |
Recognizing the limitations of knowledge and power | |
Being able to situate the project in the wider political and economic landscape | |
Showing the capacity to scrutinize science system elements and governance | |
mechanisms (e.g. with regard to intellectual property regimes, and funding) | |
Incorporating particular ethical values in their design |