The governance theories that have developed over the past twenty years offer a new framework to consider and examine the collective conditions of a "Responsible Research and Innovation – RRI" linked up with the policy challenges of a society in transition in all its modes of regulation. This book will recall the genesis of the reflexive point of view in the context of the development of the theory of governance. It will then develop the strengths of the model and finally, will show the fruitfulness of its application to the field of the RRI.

Marc Maesschalck is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium and Director of the Centre de Philosophie du Droit (CPDR). He has recently published Democracy Law and Governance as well as Transformations de l'éthique and Towards a Theory of Governance.