Anais do XXI Seminário Internacional Nanotecnologias, Sociedade e Meio Ambiente desafios jurídicos éticos e sociais para a “grande transição sustentável” (XXI SEMINANOSOMA) 342 the whole research and innovation process in order to better align both the process and its outcomes with the values, needs and expectations of European society. This approach to research and innovation is termed Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). (ECD 2014/9294: 4) In this way, RRI redefines European Commission science policies concerning inclusive governance processes of scientific and tech- nical research that take into account “anticipatory reflection” on right impacts in an integrated way with socially desirable ds, within the socio-technical configuration of the science-society complex. 4. Conclusion STI is a key actor in the development of our societies. STI co-configures the various orders – scientific-technological, economic, political, moral, ... – articulating itself with other dimensions of our life- world. Therefore, analyzing the capacities generated by STI processes, as well as the consequences resulting from them, is of the greatest interest to build a society in which research and innovation practices can integrate nanotechnology into a more responsible dynamic of align- ment with social and environmental challenges. Renanosoma’s Science and Society approach involves looking at science and technology from a series of implications related to the social and environmental impacts of scientific-technological processes. It is an empirical and theoretical positioning in the bid to build socially robust scientific knowledge in nanotechnology. This chapter attempts to show the approach’s suitability in relation to new conceptualisations of science and science-society relationship, expressed in the Science in Society approach. The analyses conducted in the past two decades and the S&T policies implemented in the EU allow the meaning of nanotechnology’s social and environmental impact to be redefined within the framework of socio-technical robustness, seen as a domain of valorisation processes (in a broad sense) that depend on a heterogeneous set of actors, spheres and criteria. A step forward in this task has therefore been proposed, making use of the RRI (Respon- sible Research and Innovation) perspective. RRI offers insights into theway inwhich theoretical approaches have materialised in European public STI policies over the past twenty years. As a result of this process, policy documents explicitly recognise the need to understand and work on the intersections and dynamics of mutual science-society configuration. The analysis conducted, from the Science and Society programme to the Science with and for Society
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