ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the responsibility in innovation and research through the notion of care. It explores some of the benefits of considering responsibility in Research and Innovation (R&I) as related to the idea of care. As well as some of the limits and issues raised when care ethics is taken out from its traditional arena and applied to the specific challenges posed by the development of science, technology and innovation. The chapter analyses three different reasons to adopt an interpretation of responsibility in R&I based on the notion of care, related to the way in which context is taken into account, the possibility of building a collective notion of good, and compatibility with moral pluralism. The chapter focuses on what has to be reinterpreted when applying care ethics to R&I practices, including the specific problem of how to define a need in the assessment of science and technology.
