Anais do XXI Seminário Internacional Nanotecnologias, Sociedade e Meio Ambiente desafios jurídicos éticos e sociais para a “grande transição sustentável” (XXI SEMINANOSOMA) 316 RESPONSIBLE NANOTECHNOLOGY: FROM THE SCIENCE OF IMPACTS TO THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT IMPACTS Julieta Barrenechea1 Ainhoa Fernández2 Andoni Ibarra3 1. Introduction For the past twenty years, Renanosoma (Rede Brasileira de Pesquisas emNanotecnologia, Sociedade e Meio Ambiente) has been pursu- ing a work programme focused on the study of the impact of nanotech- nology and emergent sciences and technologies in Brazil. As opposed to the “Science of production”, the “Science of impacts” has been insti- tuted as an epistemological anchor to promote safe and sustainable science (Martins 2016). It seeks to show, through a transdisciplinary approach, how ethical and responsible integration between science and technology can promote the scientific community’s commitment to practices that are safe and beneficial to society and to environment (Santos Junior 2023). We shall attempt to elucidate the challenges facing the science of impacts within the framework of understanding responsible science (von Schomberg 2013) as the science of right impacts. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has made a decisive contribution, since the beginning of the second decade of this century, to a new conception of political thought on science and technology in Europe, the USA and, more recently, in China. RRI moves away from the precautionary ap- proach that identifies the area of risk and uncertainty associated with the negative component of scientific and technological development as the area for public policy action (e.g. in Delogu 2016), and places it in the modulation and governance of science and technologies that can make a positive contribution to addressing and solving social and environmental challenges in today’s societies. The starting point is iden- tified in science’s new image and the relationship between science and society offered by the RRI framework. The past three decades have transformed the paradigm for un- derstanding science-society relational dynamics. Its analysis has led to 1 EUSKAMPUS 2 UPV/EHU 3 UPV/EHU DOI: https://doi.org/10.29327/5457536.1-21
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