One more report of ProGReSS’ Outreach WP has been completed!
In this report, responsible and societally desirable research and innovation is linked to the challenges of end-user engagement and especially to the challenges of the inclusion of the most marginalised groups in society into the innovation process.
The involvement and, moreover, the engagement of end-users in particular, and the society in general (meaning the public and civil society stakeholders), is a necessary path towards the implementation of RRI, making innovation with and for end-users and society more effective, ethical and societally desirable.
Two cases in which inclusive innovation has been made possible through the engagement of end-users as innovators are presented: innovations in the medicinal field, based on the knowledge of the Southern African San people mediated through an NGO (SASI), and grassroots innovations in India.