The wining projects are:
Responsible innovation: Developing new products through privacy by design.
Firms are increasingly using big data opportunities to develop digital innovations, which creates privacy issues due to the use of personal data. Engaging in responsible innovation, these firms struggle with paradoxical privacy tensions during their innovation activities such as the changing nature of privacy preferences, regulatory changes to privacy laws and integrating a multiplicity of actor perspectives. Also, privacy goals may conflict with other priorities such as incorporating value-added features and environmental sustainability in the design of new products. ICT research has developed privacy by design patterns and tested some of them in software development of digital systems. However, their insights are largely unconnected to innovation management research that investigates the use and impact of big data opportunities. This project aims to combine these research streams to understand how embedding privacy design patterns in innovation development can help innovation researchers and R&D managers to better define privacy issues, and design and deploy better privacy solutions in digital, responsible innovations, thereby improving the privacy protection of all the stakeholders involved.
The Department of Business Administration at the Nijmegen School of Management and iHub are looking for a PhD candidate on responsible innovation, in particular on privacy by design patterns. As a PhD candidate, you will be formally based in the Marketing group and at iHub. You will work on a PhD project under the supervision of Vera Blazevic, Robert Kok, and Jaap-Henk Hoepman.
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Digital Technology as an enabler of the Dutch Energy Transition.
Smart energy technology (SET), such as the smart meter, is often portrayed as a crucial facilitator in supporting the energy transition as it is expected to bring radical efficiency improvement in the future. Smart meters allow the grid-operators to implement pricing incentives. It is up to the users to cope with these quickly changing prices. However, the smart meter aggravates risks concerning core public values, notably autonomy (users’ sense of agency and self-determination), security (safeguarding customer data), and inclusion (equal access to technologies). There are several ethical questions and tensions, e.g. smart-energy technology enables the collection of data to identify energy vulnerable households and provide them with extra support, enhancing inclusion at the expense of other public values. These tensions are largely based on different futures perceptions: will inclusion be increased or decreased by the SET? How will the issue of data security develop in the future? How much value do people give to autonomy? The different (future) perceptions of these values differ across stakeholders and will shift over time. In this study, we take up the ethical consequences of SET and bring it two steps further, 1) analyzing the actual perceived and experienced user autonomy, security and inclusion, and 2) adding a future perspective that outlines and analyzes the role of the expected, uncertain and (un)desired developments of these public values, answering the main question: How do different stakeholders (re)enact (future) values concerning autonomy, security and inclusion in the development and use of SET?
Business Studies, Environmental Studies and iHub at Radboud University offer a PhD position on how the use of digital technology brings together public interests (energy saving) and public values (privacy and autonomy). A key theme for the future! As a PhD candidate, you will be formally based in the Environmental Governance and Politics group and at iHub. You will work on a PhD project under the supervision of Arnoud Lagendijk, Sietske Veenman, Berber Pas, and Bernard van Gastel.
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