Today, innovation is largely seen as inherently good and the panacea to many of our grand societal challenges. However, did you know innovators and their innovations were not always seen as a positive force for society? Welcome to Responsible Innovation 100, an interview program for those wishing to maximise their innovation impact through responsible innovation. Our program will feature a diverse range of guests including investors, business leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and educators. Each guest will spend an hour with Xiao Han Drummond, our program host, to share how they are driving responsible innovation in their respective areas of work, and their vision for 2050.
In our opening episode, we speak with Dr. Vincent Blok MBA, a Dutch philosopher working as an associate professor at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He is also the director of the 4TU.Ethics Graduate School in The Netherlands. In 2005 he received his PhD degree in philosophy at Leiden University with a specialization in philosophy of technology. From 2006-2010, he was CEO of an international research institute in the field of sustainable agriculture, nutrition and health care. Together with seven PhD candidates and four Post-docs, he reflects on the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of philosophical Method (Routledge, 2019), The Critique of Management. Toward a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management (Routledge, 2021), From World to Earth. Philosophical Ecology of a threatened Planet (Boom, 2022 (in Dutch)). Blok published over a hundred articles in high-ranked philosophy journals like Environmental Values, Business Ethics Quarterly, Synthese and Philosophy & Technology, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Journal of Cleaner Production, Public understanding of Science and Journal of Responsible Innovation.
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By Centre for Responsible Innovation (CforRI)Today, innovation is largely seen as inherently good and the panacea to many of our grand societal challenges. However, did you know innovators and their innovations were not always seen as a positive force for society? Welcome to Responsible Innovation 100, an interview program for those wishing to maximise their innovation impact through responsible innovation. Our program will feature a diverse range of guests including investors, business leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and educators. Each guest will spend an hour with Xiao Han Drummond, our program host, to share how they are driving responsible innovation in their respective areas of work, and their vision for 2050.
In our opening episode, we speak with Dr. Vincent Blok MBA, a Dutch philosopher working as an associate professor at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He is also the director of the 4TU.Ethics Graduate School in The Netherlands. In 2005 he received his PhD degree in philosophy at Leiden University with a specialization in philosophy of technology. From 2006-2010, he was CEO of an international research institute in the field of sustainable agriculture, nutrition and health care. Together with seven PhD candidates and four Post-docs, he reflects on the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of philosophical Method (Routledge, 2019), The Critique of Management. Toward a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management (Routledge, 2021), From World to Earth. Philosophical Ecology of a threatened Planet (Boom, 2022 (in Dutch)). Blok published over a hundred articles in high-ranked philosophy journals like Environmental Values, Business Ethics Quarterly, Synthese and Philosophy & Technology, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Journal of Cleaner Production, Public understanding of Science and Journal of Responsible Innovation.