This entails mutual responsiveness between society and innovators, leading to higher acceptability, sustainability and desirability of innovation processes and products [3].
It is emphasised that R&D should be an inclusive process, involving interaction between innovators and societal stakeholders, who become mutually responsive 'to each other with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products' (von Schomberg, 2013).
Spruit and colleagues, for instance, posit that RRI is characterized by a shift from "assessing the desirability of the outcome of innovation processes", often focusing on harmful product outcomes, to "assessing the qualities of the innovation process" (Spruit et al. 2015).
Voters were asked to bear in mind style, innovation, originality, authenticity, desirability and uniqueness when listing their brand selections.
MBA students are valuable to a firm like this because they have the tools to implement the creative ideas helping to complete what is known in the jargon as the "innovation trifecta" of human desirability, technical feasibility and business viability.
But, in order to strategically elaborate such meanings, it becomes necessary to identify the favourable social conventions at play in a given context – i.e. the best cultural codes upon which to successfully build an innovation's relevance and desirability.
Alongside the question whether patents encourage innovation, controversy has remained over the desirability of a patent system in areas like the genetic modification of food, medicine and elsewhere (see van Dooren 2007 2009).
Citing research out of Stanford, Miller explained that innovation happens where three objectives overlap: feasibility, viability and desirability.
Attempts to improve the measurement of health-state values have led to several methodological innovations in valuation techniques such as the time trade-off (TTO), which are used to determine the desirability of a hypothetical state of health.
Social desirability bias.
