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Organizational Capability Life Cycles for Responsible Innovation

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Formal approaches to technology assessment that attempt to

take into account these and other related challenges and that have

gained traction with science policy makers include “Constructive

Technology Assessment” (Rip et al., 1995) and “Real-Time Technology

Assessment” (Guston & Sarewitz, 2002). Both CTA and RTTA depart

from earlier forms of technology assessment that were meant to

provide “early warning” to policy makers about future regulatory

challenges. Adopting a more distributed view of innovation, CTA and

RTTA aim to interact with