Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 12, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su12176948
Keywords
sustainable development goals; SDGs; responsible research and innovation; RRI; responsible innovation; RI; business; social and solidarity economy; SSE; cooperatives
Funding
- Department of economic promotion, tourism and rural environment of the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council [12/19]
- Department of Education, Linguistic Policy and Culture of the Basque Government [IT 1205-19]
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In this contribution, we explore the possibilities of Responsible Innovation (RI) to assess and support the engagement of businesses in the spectrum of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and, in particular, cooperatives to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the firm level. We conduct a critical review of the academic literature on sustainable development and responsible innovation, focusing on the role of business to identify how firms in the spectrum of SSE can contribute through responsible innovation to the sustainable development agenda and how firms in the spectrum of SSE can benefit from it. Results suggest that firms can benefit from responsible innovation in the transformation of their business models. On the other hand, firms in the spectrum of SSE contribute to extending the scope of SDGs to business, not focusing on what cooperatives do by their nature (e.g., principles and values), but their contribution tokey horizontal enablers(e.g., partnership and innovation) for the integration of firms in the sustainable development agenda. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the relationship between SSE firms and RI is assessed from the perspective of firms' contribution to SDGs. Further research is needed to sophisticate the translation of particular tools developed in the framework of RI to firms in the spectrum of SSE and, in particular, cooperative firms.
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