Responsibility for Sustainable Technology Development in Companies and Institutions

Anyone who develops technologies and brings them into use bears a corresponding responsibility. However, specialisation and the growing complexity and interdependence of technological, social and environmental factors are increasing the risk of diffusion of responsibility.

This acatech POSITION PAPER aims to stimulate a debate on responsibility in the technological sciences – not only within the technological sciences community and its academy, acatech, but also within organisations, companies and agencies with a research and technology focus.