Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: On the Concept of CrossEuropean Technology Assessment

   1. Introduction: On the Concept of Cross-European Technology Assessment

      • Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen, Lars Klüver

      Pages 1-12Open Access

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3. The TA Manifesto

   1. The TA Manifesto

      • Lars Klüver, Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen, Marie Louise Jørgensen

      Pages 13-16Open Access

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4. Expanding Technology Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Seeing Technology Assessment with New Eyes

      • Rinie van Est, Michael Nentwich, Jurgen Ganzevles, André Krom

      Pages 18-36Open Access

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   3. Expanding the TA Landscape — Lessons from Seven European Countries

      • Leonhard Hennen, Linda Nierling, Judit Mosoni-Fried

      Pages 37-56Open Access

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   4. Adopting TA in Central and Eastern Europe — An Organizational Perspective

      • Lenka Hebáková, Edgaras Leichteris, Katalin Fodor, Ventseslav Kozarev

      Pages 57-63Open Access

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   5. Technology Assessment for Parliaments — Towards Reflexive Governance of Innovation

      • Danielle Bütschi, Mara Almeida

      Pages 64-76Open Access

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   6. Doing Cross-European Technology Assessment

      • Marianne Barland, Danielle Bütschi, Edgaras Leichteris, Walter Peissl

      Pages 77-88Open Access

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5. Exemplifying Cross-European Technology Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. The Future Panel on Public Health Genomics — Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives

      • André Krom, Mara Almeida, Leo Hennen, Edgaras Leichteris, Arnold Sauter, Dirk Stemerding

      Pages 90-104Open Access

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   3. The Future of Ageing — Stakeholder Involvement on the Future of Care

      • Marianne Barland, Pierre Delvenne, Benedikt Rosskamp

      Pages 105-113Open Access

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   4. Europe Wide Views on Sustainable Consumption

      • Marie-Louise Jørgensen, Ventseslav Kozarev, Kathrine Lindegaard Juul

      Pages 114-122Open Access

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6. Building Capacities for Cross-European TA

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Making Technology Assessment Accessible to New Players

      • Pierre Delvenne, Benedikt Rosskamp, Ciara Fitzgerald, Frédéric Adam

      Pages 124-130Open Access

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   3. Training TA Professionals

      • Danielle Bütschi, Zoya Damaniova, Ventseslav Kovarev, Blagovesta Chonkova

      Pages 131-138Open Access

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   4. Building Community — Or Why We Need an Ongoing Conference Platform for TA

      • Constanze Scherz, Lenka Hebáková, Leonhard Hennen, Tomáš Michalek, Julia Hahn, Stefanie B. Seitz

      Pages 139-146Open Access

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   5. E-Infrastructure for Technology Assessment

      • M. Nentwich

      Pages 147-156Open Access

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7. Back Matter

   Pages 157-171

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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.

• computer science
• economics
• engineering
• governance
• organization
• parliament
• Policy
• political science
• political theory
• politics
• public administration
• public policy
• science
• technology

• The Danish Board of Technology Foundation, Denmark

  Lars Klüver, Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen, Marie Louise Jørgensen

Lars Klüver is Director of the Danish Board of Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen is Researcher at the Danish Board of Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Marie Louise Jørgensen is Project Manager at the Danish Board of Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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