Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) shares the arena with other concepts, such as technology assessment, risk assessment, technology management and sustainability management. The biggest and possibly most powerful concept though is often overlooked: Corporate (social) Responsibility (CR). It could be thought that the word ‘corporate’ limits the application of CR principles and tools in RRI, because RRI deals with private and public investments. However, the three main corporate responsibilities -environmental, social and economic- are the same for publicly funded research and innovation (R&I) actors.