PRESENTATION: Forms and Contents of Responsible Innovation

Pluriregional Conceptions and Experiences

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The realities we inhabit are largely the result of science and technology. Their transformative and world-creating capacity has usually been at the service of the massive and systematic exploitation of material and symbolic resources, with a view to achieving certain ends, considered -for each moment and circumstance- as desirable by certain actors.

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Author Biographies

Hannot Rodríguez, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

Associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Faculty of Arts), Spain. Principal researcher for the PRAXIS group (UPV/EHU).

Sergio Urueña, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

Postdoctoral researcher (doctoral researcher in the Basque Government Postdoctoral Program). Department of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Faculty of Education, Philosophy, and Anthropology), Spain. Member of the PRAXIS group (UPV/EHU).

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2025-11-20

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Rodríguez, H. ., & Urueña, S. (2025). PRESENTATION: Forms and Contents of Responsible Innovation: Pluriregional Conceptions and Experiences. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad - CTS (Ibero-American Science, Technology and Society Journal), 20(60), 111–119. https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-1120

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