Product-responsiveness is suggested for mobilising the potential of innovation products to be adaptable according to diverse stakeholder needs.
Product-responsiveness is suggested for mobilising the potential of R&D's products to be adaptable to diverse stakeholder needs.
This section suggests process-responsiveness, product-responsiveness, and presponsiveness as further elaborations for the concept of responsiveness (See Fig. 1).
With product-responsiveness, we encourage to consider the option of 'open-ended products' in operationalising responsiveness to diverse societal needs.
Further, product-responsiveness could perhaps compensate some of the asymmetry in stakeholder involvement, by allocating choice also to the less involved stakeholders.
In summary: With product-responsiveness, we suggest to consider also open-ended commitments, in addition to closed-down commitments, as a resource for operationalising responsiveness.
While product-responsiveness can diversify the understanding of responsiveness as a relation between producers and adopters, we also acknowledge needs for further discussions regarding the trade-off of increasing complexity.
We can hypothesise an example of product-responsiveness based on Datashare's project: Privacy settings of the data sharing platform could be adjustable by resident-users, according to how comfortable they are with sharing their information.
Product-responsiveness also makes RRI more explicit about possible roles for adopter-stakeholders, if they are to become mutually responsive with innovators 'with a view to the societal aspects of the innovation' (von Schomberg, 2013).
Additionally, SCF types such as sourcing, relational, delivery, postponement, new product and responsiveness influenced the SC׳s flexibility provided to the end-customers.
Product-responsive innovation: Takes actions to open-up the innovation to stakeholder engagement during R&D, when process-responsiveness alerts of such need.
