Responsible Innovation: The development and validation of a scale

The burgeoning interest in responsible innovation is hampered by the lack of a validated measure. Based on the framework of responsible innovation, we develop a measure at the organizational level 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 validity, and discriminant validity) and nomological network of the scale. We discuss how this new measure sets the groundwork for further research on responsible innovation.