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Title Policy-oriented technology assessment across Europe : expanding capacities / edited by Lars Klüver, the Danish Board of Technology Foundation, Denmark, Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen, the Danish Board of Technology Foundation, Denmark, and Marie Louise Jørgensen, the Danish Board of Technology Foundation, Denmark
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages .)
Series Palgrave pivot
Palgrave pivot.
Contents The TA Manifesto -- pt. I Expanding Technology Assessment -- 1. Seeing Technology Assessment with New Eyes / Andre Krom -- 2. Expanding the TA Landscape -- Lessons from Seven European Countries / Judit Mosoni-Fried -- 3. Adopting TA in Central and Eastern Europe -- An Organizational Perspective / Ventseslav Kozarev -- 4. Technology Assessment for Parliaments -- Towards Reflexive Governance of Innovation / Mara Almeida -- 5. Doing Cross-European Technology Assessment / Walter Peissl -- pt. II Exemplifying Cross-European Technology Assessment -- 6. The Future Panel on Public Health Genomics -- Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives / Dirk Stemerding -- 7. The Future of Ageing -- Stakeholder Involvement on the Future of Care / Benedikt Rosskamp -- 8. Europe Wide Views on Sustainable Consumption / Kathrine Lindegaard Juul -- pt. III Building Capacities for Cross-European TA -- 9. Making Technology Assessment Accessible to New Players / Frederic Adam -- 10. Training TA Professionals / Blagovesta Chonkova -- 11. Building Community -- Or Why We Need an Ongoing Conference Platform for TA / Stefanie B. Seitz -- 12.E-Infrastructure for Technology Assessment / M. Nentwich
Summary This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by science, nor will conventional methods of innovation bring such transitions about. A turn to interactive governance is therefore underway with policy-makers and citizens becoming increasingly involved in processes of deliberating futures. Technology Assessment (TA) is the art of structuring such processes. TA goes beyond traditional expert policy analysis by systematically combining a multi-disciplinary evidence base with participatory approaches to policy deliberation. TA thus seeks to act as a hub for serious and transparent dialogue between policy, industry, science, and society about the challenges ahead and the available options for overcoming them responsibly. This volume offers an up-to-date account of the expansion of technology assessment capacities across new European member states. The contributions of this volume are written by leading European researchers and practitioners in technology assessment (TA) and are based on the PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment) project. Lars Klver is Director of the Danish Board of Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark. Rasmus jvind Nielsen is Researcher at the Danish Board of Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark. Marie Louise Jrgensen is Project Manager at the Danish Board of Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark
Notes "Contributions from participants in the PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment) project, which ran from 2011-15."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Technology and state -- Europe
Technology and state
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Klüver, Lars, 1955- editor.
Nielsen, Rasmus Øjvind, 1977- editor.
Jørgensen, Marie Louise (Technical writer), editor.
ISBN 9781137561725
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