2017 Volume 14 Pages 116-133
Among different practices of responsible research and innovation （RRI） in Japan, their key policy agendas including open access, gender equality and public engagement are relatively visible and measurable with reference to diversity, inclusiveness, openness and transparency. Such emphasis might in turn make less visible asymmetric relationship between experts and citizens and backlash of the bulimic society. In the area of ethics and science education, autonomous development of the norm and mimic strategy among expert communities is necessary to facilitate responsiveness and adaptive change at the person cognitive and behavioral level. Anticipatory and reflective governance to connect research, innovation, education and community service and to envision the development of human resources, institutions and communities should reposition the practice of RRI in the public sphere.
