1. The Bassetti Foundation’s mission is
to promote responsible innovation.
The Foundation seeks to address the actors
involved in complex innovation scenarios
… in order to increase awareness and foster
new roles in the issue of responsibility.

2. The Bassetti Foundation
acts along these lines:
• it promotes the concept and culture of
responsible innovation, seeking to make its
meaning, function and impact clearer
through political and cultural activity;
• it fosters awareness of the issue of
responsibility in innovation amongst
entrepreneurs, policy makers,
professionals and communicators…
… highlighting the multiple (and often
unforeseeable) consequences of their
decisions.

3. “Innovation”
for the Bassetti Foundation:
1. means "something previously improbable, now made real“
and not simply "novelty“ or “creativity”.

4. “Innovation”
for the Bassetti Foundation:
2. forges new links between knowledge and power, which bring
into existence previously unknown objects, relations or situations

5. “Innovation”
for the Bassetti Foundation:
3. is not “invention” per se (science and capital intensive),
but the ability to transform lifestyles
4 …for instance Poiesis-intensive” innovation refers
to cultural aspects, such as beauty and taste,
as well as to “techno-scientific” applications.

6. “Innovation”
for the Bassetti Foundation:
4. is not an individual "creative" act, but a
social process that permeates politics and
institutions and, in turn, depends on them.

7. Some of our main current Activities:
Teaching and
Training:
LIUC – Free University of
Castellanza;
LAB IN RES - Master on Dissemination and
Innovation in the Debate:
Public Administration, Distinguished Lectures: Richard
Milan University Nelson (2002), Bruno Latour
(2003), Daniel Callahan (2005),
Sheila Jasanoff (2008);
Seminars and workshops:
“Public participation and the
Research and Scientific Publications: Governance of Innovation”,
(Italian ed. of Taking European Knowledge Society “Science and Governance”;
Seriously, Report to the EU Commission, 2007; “Journalism and science
Technoscientific Innovation - Responsibility and New communication”
Forms of Democracy, 2008)

8. Some of our most recent achievements:
Research:
See Jeff Ubois’s
Conversations on
Innovation, Power, and
Responsibility
Politics: insertion of a
“participatory” clause in the new
Dissemination: Statute of Lombardy 2008
PCST network
Conference
Florence 2012
(Public Cooperation with academic institutes and
communication Entrepreneurial associations
of science and (Sheila Jasanoff’s STS program at Harvard
technology) Kennedy School of Government; PDMA
Southern Europe, etc.)

9. Some current Interests:
New rules of political engagement
(current co-operation with
the Regional Research
Institute of Lombardy
IRER Anthropology of innovation:
exploring cultures of
responsibility in scientific and
entrepreneurial practice
Current cutting-edge innovations and
questions of responsibility:
nanotechnology, roboethics, participatory
design, computer mediated collective action
etc.

10. Our web site: www.fondazionebassetti.org
Articles
Bibliography
Blogs
Calls for comments
Focus
News
Photo
Press
Reports
Pod casts

11. Any questions?
Ask me or…
contact us:
info@fondazionebassetti.org