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This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a challenge. This book provides successful case studies for the implementation of responsible innovation in businesses. The importance of social innovations is emphasized as a link between benefits for society and profits for businesses, especially SMEs. For corporate industry it is shown how responsible innovation can offer a competitive advantage to adopters. The book is based on the latest insights from theory and practice and combines conceptual work with first-hand experience. It is of interest to innovation managers, entrepreneurs and academics. For academics, the book will provide a combination of analysis and discussion, and present recent learnings from first-hand interaction with entrepreneurs. For innovation managers and entrepreneurs, it will provide inspiration and better ideas about what responsible innovation can look like in practice, why others have “done it” and what the potential benefits might be. The book will thus serve the purposes of spreading the word about the responsible innovation concept among different audiences whilst making it more accessible to innovation managers and entrepreneurs.

Philosophy --- Research—Moral and ethical aspects --- Social justice --- Human rights --- Management --- Industrial management --- Business ethics

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This open access volume makes an important contribution to the ongoing research on hope theory by combining insights from both its long history and its increasing multi-disciplinarity. In the first part, it recognizes the importance of the centuries-old reflection on hope by offering historical perspectives and tracing it back to ancient Greek philosophy. At the same time, it provides novel perspectives on often-overlooked historical theories and developments and challenges established views. The second part of the volume documents the state of the art of current research in hope across eight disciplines, which are philosophy, theology, psychology, economy, sociology, health studies, ecology, and development studies. Taken together, this volume provides an integrated view on hope as a multi-faced phenomenon. It contributes to the further understanding of hope as an essential human capacity, with the possibility of transforming our human societies.

Positive Psychology --- Moral Philosophy --- Sociology of Religion --- Christian Theology --- Heterodox Economics --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics --- Hope Theory --- Hope Theory and Positive Psychology --- Hope and Human Economic Behaviour --- Cognitive Psychology --- Philosophy and Theology of Hope --- Hope Development in Western Countries --- Hope Research --- Hope and Health Studies --- Open Access --- Positive psychology --- Ethics & moral philosophy --- Religion & beliefs --- Sociology & anthropology --- Christianity --- Theology --- Economic theory & philosophy

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This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a variety of didactical tools will aid the student to grasp the issues at hand and help him or her develop strategies to deal with them. This book addresses problems and questions that any bachelor student in the social sciences should be aware of, including plagiarism, data fabrication and other types of fraud, data augmentation, various forms of research bias, but also peer pressure, issues with confidentiality and questions regarding conflicts of interest. Cheating, ‘free riding’, and broader issues that relate to the place of the social sciences in society are also included. The book concludes with a step-by-step approach designed to coach a student through a research application process.

Research Ethics --- Methodology of the Social Sciences --- Psychological Methods/Evaluation --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics --- Biotechnology --- Psychological Methods --- conceptualizing research ethics --- research ethics in the social sciences --- definition of plagiarism --- factors that facilitate plagiarism --- ghostwriting --- measures to counter plagiarism --- fabrication and cheating --- research bias --- science's self-correction --- publication bias --- Open Access --- Ethics & moral philosophy --- Philosophy of science --- Social research & statistics --- Psychological methodology

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This open access book is a unique resource for health professionals who are interested in understanding the philosophical foundations of their daily practice. It provides tools for untangling the motivations and rationality behind the way medicine and healthcare is studied, evaluated and practiced. In particular, it illustrates the impact that thinking about causation, complexity and evidence has on the clinical encounter. The book shows how medicine is grounded in philosophical assumptions that could at least be challenged. By engaging with ideas that have shaped the medical profession, clinicians are empowered to actively take part in setting the premises for their own practice and knowledge development. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with contributions from experienced clinicians, this book presents a new philosophical framework that takes causal complexity, individual variation and medical uniqueness as default expectations for health and illness.

Bioethics --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics --- Health Sciences --- Person centred practice --- Evidence based practice --- CauseHealth --- the Biomedical Model --- Shared Decision Making --- Clinical Encounter --- Medicine: general issues

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This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume of the Virtues in Economics series and represent further contributions to the themes set out in that volume: (i) examining the philosophical and methodological fallacies of this turn in modern economic theory that the removal of the moral motivation of economic agents from modern economic theory has entailed; and (ii) proposing a return descriptive economics as the means with which the moral content of economic life could be restored in economic theory. This book is of interest to researchers and students of the methodology of economics, ethics, philosophers concerned with agency and economists who build economic models that rest in the intention of the agent.

Philosophy of the Social Sciences --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology --- Phenomenology --- Research Ethics --- Philosophical Methodology --- History of Economic Thought and Methodology --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics --- Philosophy --- An Essay on Humble Economics --- from a Theoretical Basis to the Next System --- How (not) to Connect Ethics and Economics --- Identity Theories in Economics --- Normative Distinction in Economic Methodology --- Open Access --- Research Ethics in Economics --- Words and Objects in Economics --- The Complexity of Human Nature --- The Making of Economic Theory --- The Naturalisation of Normative Economics --- Social & political philosophy --- Economic history --- Phenomenology & Existentialism --- Ethics & moral philosophy --- Philosophy of science --- Topics in philosophy