Descrizione del progetto
Ricerca e innovazione responsabile per l’ecosistema di imprenditorialità delle discipline STEM
L’investimento a impatto sociale potrebbe apportare benefici sociali, ambientali ed economici facendo affidamento a un innovativo modello di ricerca e innovazione responsabile destinato a start-up. Il lavoro del progetto RRIstart, finanziato dall’UE, si concentrerà sul valore della ricerca e dell’innovazione responsabile per l’ecosistema di imprenditorialità delle discipline STEM. Nello specifico, proporrà un nuovo modello di ricerca e innovazione responsabile per start-up unito a nuovi indicatori di investimento a impatto sociale basati sulla stessa. Il progetto testerà l’innovazione sviluppata attraverso un approccio di sperimentazione transnazionale (dal laboratorio al mercato). Saranno organizzati tre progetti pilota che includono start-up dell’Europa settentrionale sostenibili sotto il profilo ambientale, stampa 3D e materiali avanzati in Italia e bioeconomia (agro-alimentare) in Grecia. L’obiettivo complessivo consiste nell’avvicinare la società alla scienza e all’innovazione attraverso un investimento a impatto sociale.
Obiettivo
RRIstart responds to the EU efforts to foster impact investment (investment that delivers social, environmental and economic benefits) by developing an innovative RRI-based model for startups, complemented by an RRI-based impact investment indicator list in a multi-stakeholder (beyond quadruple helix) context. Through RRIstart, the consortium aims to demonstrate the value of RRI for the STEM entrepreneurship ecosystem. At the moment, startups and investors do not adopt existing RRI principles and indicators due to the limited compatibility of existing RRI models (tailored mostly for large organizations). Nevertheless, by adopting a lean/agile approach to RRI embedment, RRIstart proposes a novel RRI model for startups blended with novel RRI-based impact investment indicators. RRIstart tests the developed innovation through a translational piloting approach (from lab to market). Three pilots will be organized (on environmentally sustainable startups from Northern Europe, 3D printing & advanced materials in Italy and bioeconomy (agrifood) in Greece). In each pilot, extended quadruple helix actors will be involved in order to assess the feasibility of embedding RRI in startups and to facilitate (public and private) impact investment through the RRI-based indicator set. By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach in a multi-sectoral STEM context, RRIstart will update the SwafS knowledge base through the following: contributing to 9 MoRRI indicators and 9 SDGs; boosting societal engagement towards STEM startups; fostering the recruitment of talent for STEM startups; pairing scientific excellence with social awareness and responsibility by facilitating RRI-based startups and impact investment; creating new market opportunities; bring society closer to science and innovation through impact investment (show-casing the clear benefits of societal engagement in innovation development); and overall, making EU startups and investors more RRI-aware.
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- H2020-EU.5. - SCIENCE WITH AND FOR SOCIETY Main Programme
Invito a presentare proposte
(si apre in una nuova finestra) H2020-SwafS-2018-2020
Vedi altri progetti per questo bandoBando secondario
H2020-SwafS-2020-1
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA -Coordinatore
00185 Roma
Italia