Constructing Alternative Socio-technical Worlds: Re-imagining RRI through SRI in India

While Responsible Research and Innovation has the potential for democratising the governance of research and innovation, translating it in the Global South would need dialogues and engaging with the plural knowledge systems and ongoing experiments on innovation at the margins that seek to construct...

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