Responsible research and innovation in innovation value chains: focus on the catalytic role of non-governmental organizations

Figures & data

Figure 1. RRI and IVC (Authors’ elaboration).

Figure 2. Find NGO partners.

Table 1. Experimental design.

Control Variables
Numbers of Agents		Firm Variables		Environmental Variables
n AM-tech	200	Attractiveness threshold	0.5	Standard organization	5
n Supplier	200	RRI start-up trigger	0.5	Funding	50
		RRI attractiveness	0.5	Regulator	0.5
n Research-inst.	200	Publish open access		Funding RRI	0.5
n NGO	200			Funding quality	5
n OEM	200	Economic threshold	50	RRI cost	30
n Customer	200	RRI open access threshold	0.5	Big firm percent	10
Setting, Explanatory Variable, and Output
Run	Ticks	ngo-attendance	Output
300	30	0.4, 0.7, 1.0	Average RRI values of networks Average heterogeneity of networks Average knowledge of the agents

Figure 3. RRI values evolution.

Table 2. ANOVA for RRI values.

One-way ANOVA
	Step 4	Step 6	Step 30
Public Engagement	F(2, 897) = 540.85*	F(2, 897) = 436.86*	F(2, 897) = 710.13*
Gender Equality	F(2, 897) = 344.13*	F(2, 897) = 123.82*	F(2, 897) = 166.84*
Open Access	F(2, 897) = 347.78*	F(2, 897) = 111.03*	F(2, 897) = 163.04*
Ethical Thinking	F(2, 897) = 137.80*	F(2, 897) = 131.80*	F(2, 897) = 118.08*

*p < 0.0001.

Table A1. Description variables I AM RRI SKIN model.

nAM-tech	the number of AM-tech companies initially
nSupplier	the number of Suppliers initially
nResearch-inst	the number of Research institutions initially
nOEM	the number of OEMs initially
nCustomer	the number of Customers initially
nNGO	the number of NGOS initially
big-firm-percent	number of firms with 10 times initial capital of rest
attractiveness-threshold	how attractive a firm must be before it becomes a partner
regulator	requirements of regulators to be filled in (depends on ethical thinking)
standard-organization	requirements of standard organization (depends on idea quality)
total-funding-amount	how many funds are available at the start of the simulation
funding	funding for deserving network
funding-quality	quality required to receive funding
funding-RRI	RRI threshold required to receive funding
RRI-start-up-trigger	RRI value threshold that triggers start up
RRI-cost	cost to support ethical values
economic-threshold	economic threshold to be exceeded in order to publish open access
RRI-open-access-thresholds	RRI open access value threshold to be exceeded in order to publish open access
initial-capital	the capital that a firm starts with (except research-inst)
initial-capital-for-big-firms	the amount of start-up capital for those firms set to be ‘big’
max-ih-length	maximum length of an innovation hypothesis
incr-research-tax	tax paid for one step of incremental research
refining-IH-cost	tax paid for every partnership per step
min-partners	minimum number of partners
net-phase-1	networks in idea generation phase
net-phase-2	networks in product development phase
net-pahse-3	networks in market diffusion phase
%survived-1	Percentage of survived firms in idea generation
%survived-2	Percentage of survived firms in product development
industry	sector in which the organization operates (Medical, Automotive, Broker)
initial capital/dimension	Agents’ Initial resources or the dimension of Research-insts
start-project?	The agent is able to start and drive an innovative project
state	i internal agents’ timing
open-access	Agents’ inclination to the Open-access
public-engagement	Agents’ inclination to the Public engagement
gender-equality	Agents’ inclination to the Gender Equality
ethical-thinking	Agents’ inclination to the Ethical-thinking
RRI-value	List of open-access, public engagement and ethical-thinking values
agent-public-open-access	number of agents that made an open-access publication
max-partners	Maximum number of partners that each agent can have
partners	List of agents that are in the same network
previous-partners	List of agents that were in the same network
cap-capacity	maximum Kene length
IH	Innovation Hypothesis
capabilities	Agents’ Capabilities
max-veiled	maximum number of Capabilities not possessed by the agent, but necessary
abilities	Agents’ Abilities
expertises	Agents’ Expertise
advert	Agent capabilities list
RRI-net	RRI values of network
net-partners	list of partners
max-partners-same-breed	maximum number of partners of the same breed
who-net-partners	list of ID partners
net-dimension	number of partners in the network
focal	the network’s agent creator (start-project)
invested-capital	sum of the capitals invested in the project by the partners
phase	phase of the evolution in which the network is working.
quality	quality of network’s product

Table A2. Descriptive statistics RRI values diffusion.

Mean RRI Value
	Step 4			Step 6			Step 30
ngo-attendance	0.4	0.7	1.0	0.4	0.7	1.0	0.4	0.7	1.0
Public Engagement	0.61	0.66	0.58	0.69	0.71	0.63	0.88	0.86	0.78
Gender Equality	0.58	0.63	0.60	0.61	0.65	0.64	0.71	0.75	0.75
Open Access	0.58	0.63	0.58	0.64	0.67	0.64	0.83	0.84	0.80
Ethical Thinking	0.64	0.67	0.65	0.65	0.68	0.67	0.71	0.74	0.73