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Responsible Innovation: behind the scenes with Rod McCreaTranscript
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Dr Rod McCrea: Today in Australia and across the world, we have many challenges.
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These challenges are vast and they’re going to require novel and potentially disruptive solutions
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from artificial intelligence to robotics, many things that could also potentially change our lives. So, we need to be able to trust those organisations developing these novel innovations.
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I’m Rod McCrea, and our team is investigating what builds trust in research organisations.
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And that could be anything from being more inclusive to society and its views to risk management.
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We surveyed over 4000 Australians to ask them about what they thought was happening in organisations such as this, in terms of Responsible Innovation.
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And importantly, we asked what factors lead to building public trust in these organisations and expectations of socially responsible outcomes.
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I think scientists will benefit from this research, especially those involved in research around contentious issues such as what to do with invasive plant species, how to best manage them and what do the public think about what is Responsible Innovation in this area.
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And science organisations and the governing bodies around science also stand to benefit by knowing what’s important to the public and being in step with that.
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Presently we don’t actually know a lot about what are the most important factors that build trust in the development of innovations that may change the way we live, in the way we work.
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But we do know that it’s key for these innovations to land beneficially in society
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and also that the innovations are able to solve the challenges they were designed to solve.
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To find out more about Responsible Innovation, visit research.csiro.au/ri.
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[Image changes to show a view looking down on a rocky and scrubby landscape, and then the image changes to show a city lit up at night]
Dr Rod McCrea: Today in Australia and across the world, we have many challenges.
[Image changes to show Dr Rod MCrea talking to the camera, and text appears: Dr Rod McCrea, CSIRO]
These challenges are vast and they’re going to require novel and potentially disruptive solutions
[Images move through to show a male walking down the corridor of a supercomputer with a laptop, robotic machines at work, and then Rod talking to the camera]
from artificial intelligence to robotics, many things that could also potentially change our lives. So, we need to be able to trust those organisations developing these novel innovations.
[Images move through to show Rod and a colleague walking towards the camera, two researchers looking into a cabinet and watching a robotic machine, and then a researcher working at a lab bench]
I’m Rod McCrea, and our team is investigating what builds trust in research organisations.
[Images move through to show a machine filling test tubes with liquid, and then Rod working at a computer]
And that could be anything from being more inclusive to society and its views to risk management.
[Image changes to show data scrolling through on a computer screen, and then the image changes to show Rod talking to the camera]
We surveyed over 4000 Australians to ask them about what they thought was happening in organisations such as this, in terms of Responsible Innovation.
[Image changes to show Rod and a colleague smiling at each other, and then the image changes to show people moving in fast motion along a street]
And importantly, we asked what factors lead to building public trust in these organisations and expectations of socially responsible outcomes.
[Images move through to show Rod talking to the camera, Rod and a colleague looking at plants in a hothouse, a close view of plants in a hothouse, and Rod talking to the camera]
I think scientists will benefit from this research, especially those involved in research around contentious issues such as what to do with invasive plant species, how to best manage them and what do the public think about what is Responsible Innovation in this area.
[Images move through to show a CSIRO sign on a machine, a view of Parliament House, cars moving past Parliament House, and Rod talking to the camera]
And science organisations and the governing bodies around science also stand to benefit by knowing what’s important to the public and being in step with that.
[Images move through to show a robotic machine adding liquid to sample tubes, Rod and a colleague looking at hothouse plants, a female working on a computer, and two researchers talking in a lab]
Presently we don’t actually know a lot about what are the most important factors that build trust in the development of innovations that may change the way we live, in the way we work.
[Images move through to show a robotic machine filling test tube samples in a tray, Rod and a colleague talking in a hothouse, plants in the hothouse, and a robotic machine filling test tubes]
But we do know that it’s key for these innovations to land beneficially in society
[Image changes to show a researcher looking at a sample in a petri dish, and then the image changes to show a researcher placing sample trays inside a cabinet]
and also that the innovations are able to solve the challenges they were designed to solve.
[Image changes to show text on a blue screen: research.csiro.au/ri]
To find out more about Responsible Innovation, visit research.csiro.au/ri.
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