Responsible Innovation: The development and validation of a scale

Abstract

The burgeoning literature on responsible innovation is encumbered by the lack of a validated measure of responsible innovation. In this paper, we develop a measurement scale to assess responsible innovation at the organizational level. We develop such a measure based on the theory of responsible innovation and validate it via standard scale development protocols. Subject-matter experts examined the content validity of the measure, and we used two separate samples to assess the psychometric properties (i.e., factor structure, reliability, convergent and discriminant validity) and the nomological network of the scale. We discuss how this new measure of responsible innovation scale serves as a groundwork to further the responsible innovation literature.