The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Many of the ethical issues of additive manufacturing (AM) are not well known or understood,
and there remains a policy vacuum that needs to be addressed. This paper aims to describe an approach that
has been applied successfully to other emerging technologies, referred to as the responsible research and
innovation (RRI) framework programme. A case is then made for the application of this approach in the AM
industry with an illustration of how it might be used
