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Responsible Innovation: Ethics, Safety and Technology
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 7 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
- To approach ethical questions with respect to (new) technology, based on various case studies.
- To assess types of innovation (like radical, niche, incremental, frugal).
- To assess risks and safety of new technologies and causes of accidents (including responsibility gaps).
- To deal with unknown risks (deep uncertainty) when it comes to new technologies.
- To use a framework for responsible innovation that addresses social and ethical concerns.
- To use the Value Sensitive Design (VSD) method in this regard.
Prerequisite
None beyond a desire to use and develop your analytical skills.
Instructors
Jeroen van den Hoven
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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