rihub.wisc.edu

Innovative technologies can disrupt economic markets, manufacturing, supply chains, national security, environmental health, and human welfare in beneficial and detrimental ways. The purpose of the Responsible Innovation Hub is to promote the development and commercialization of technology with consideration of ethical and social impacts. The Hub aims to enhance the design of socially responsible technology by UW-Madison researchers, students, and the Wisconsin business community, that will eventually become a national resource for responsible innovation.

Hub

Goals

Enhance the ethical development, adoption, and distribution of technology
Provide the private and non-profit sectors with advice and frameworks for ethics in technology
Increase the quality, prevalence, and diversity of university-driven entrepreneurship through research and training

Communities of Practice

Entrepreneurial Science Lab

Artificial Intelligence and Society

Global Observatory for Genome Editing

Robots and People

News

Five Energizing Facts About Agrivoltaics

In the quest to combat climate change, the idea of using agricultural landscapes in the Midwest to support renewable energy production has focused primarily on building wind farms and growing plant feedstocks for biofuels. Another option, called agrivoltaics, represents a new opportunity to support farmers, increase diversity in agricultural landscapes, and facilitate energy production.

UW Grad Students Integrate Robotics into Work

Led by Program Director Bilge Mutlu, the INTEGRATE Project is an interdisciplinary group that combines expertise from computer sciences, economics, engineering, psychology, and robotics

Here’s to responsible innovation

The role that ethics will play in this brave new world, and what it portends for human welfare, was the topic of a recent Wisconsin Technology Council luncheon in Madison. So was the role that a new Responsible Innovation Hub established by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery will play in ethical technology development.

UW researchers will develop gene editing therapy to treat blindness

Over the next five years, the collaborative project will use the $29 million NIH grant to merge new drug delivery systems with advanced genome CRISPR technology, innovating new treatments for Best Disease (BD) and Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), both of which are currently untreatable hereditary diseases.

Hub