Conference Governing Futures. Imagining, Negotiating & Taming Emerging Technosciences. 22-24 September, 2011 Vienna, Albert Schweitzer Haus Organized by the Department of Social Studies of Science The governance of emerging technologies: Governing the borders, relevance and acceptance of nanotechnology (Presentation cancelled) Petra Schaper-Rinkel Nanotechnology as an emerging technology was constructed, shaped, and negotiated through specific...
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The governance of emerging technologies: Governing the borders, relevance and acceptance of nanotechnology (Presentation)
The role of Foresight and Future-Oriented Technology Analysis in the Governance of Emerging Technologies (Presentation: Future-Oriented Technology Analysis FTA-Conference in Sevilla, 12-13 May 2011)
Petra Schaper-Rinkel The role of Foresight and Future-Oriented Technology Analysis in the Governance of Emerging Technologies: The Example of Nanotechnology Future-Oriented Technology Analysis FTA-Conference in Sevilla, 12-13 May 2011 The emerging technologies of the last decades, such as nanotechnology, were often understood as means to achieve a variety of goals associated with broader future...
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Project: Boosting the exploratory power of open research in Future and Emerging Technologies (EU Project)
The purpose of this project (1/2011-1/2012) is to study current practices in thematically open, bottom-up approaches to funding cross-disciplinary frontier research (such as the Open scheme of the Future and Emerging Technologies challenge within the ICT workprogamme), to provide scenarios for the possible future developments of such schemes, and to formulate recommendations and options...
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Weak signals in the governance of emerging technologies: the case of nanotechnology (Presentation October 2010: Tentative Governance in Emerging Science and Technology)
Petra Schaper-Rinkel, Weak signals in the governance of emerging technologies: the case of nanotechnology, presentation on the conference ”Tentative Governance in Emerging Science and Technology”, 28 & 29 October 2010, University of Twente What is regarded as nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST) today is a field formed and shaped by various actors and ultimately negotiated...
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Neuroscientific governmentality and the governance of future Neurosocieties ( Presentation December 2010: Neurosociety… What is it with the brain these days?)
Presentation on the conference: Neurosociety… What is it with the brain these days? International conference on 7-8 December 2010 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK. Jointly organized by The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) and the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) (cancelled) The aim of this paper is...
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June 2010: EFP-Kickoff Conference – Foresight and Forward Looking Activities – Exploring New European Perspectives
(Conference Concept and concept of Sessions: Petra Schaper-Rinkel) Conference program & documentation: http://www.foresight-platform.eu/562/featured/efp-kickoff-conference/ Objectives of the Sessions Session 1: Looking back and looking forward: Thinking, debating and shaping the future Nearly one decade ago the STRATA High Level Expert Group (HLEG) of the European Commission worked out a framework for foresight, that was published...
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Zukunft wird gemacht. Idealwelten, Weltmodelle & Szenarien (Vortrag ACC Weimar, 3. September 2009)
Vortrag zur Ausstellung DIE IDEALE AUSSTELLUNG: Donnerstag, 03.09.2009, 20:00 Uhr, ACC Galerie Weimar Fünf Jahrhunderte lang sind es Einzelne, die ideale Welten beschreibend erfinden: Thomas Morus begründet mit Utopia 1516 das Genre der politischen Utopien und mit den Öko-Utopien und den feministischen Utopien erscheinen die letzten populären Utopien in den 70er Jahren des 20....
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German Telecommunications Integration (Keynote lecture, 11.12.2007 Seoul)
Petra Schaper-Rinkel: German Telecommunications Integration. Problems Observed during the Process of German Telecommunications Integration, and of Governmental Guideline Measures. Keynote lecture given at the conference „ICT in South and North Korea” des Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) am 11.12.2007 in Seoul. Executive Summary The goal of the present study is to describe and...
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2007: Projekt zu "German Telecommunications integration"
“German Telecommunications Integration. A Study of Problems Observed during the Process of German Telecommunications Integration, and of Governmental Guideline Measures”. Auftragsforschung für das Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI). Durchgeführt am Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft der TU Berlin Dr. Petra Schaper-Rinkel (principal investigator), Martin Meister (Coordination) Prof. Werner Rammert, Dr. Ulrich Busch, Dr. Benjamin...
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Governing the nanospace: The Governance of truth, relevance and safety (Basel, May, 2007)
Petra Schaper-Rinkel (04.05.2007). Governing the nanospace: The Governance of truth, relevance and safety. Vortrag auf der Konferenz “Deliberating Future Technologies: Identy, Ethics, and Governance of Nanotechnology”. University of Basel, Switzerland, May 3 – 5, 2007 Abstract (english) The political discourse of nanotechnology is shaping the identity of this technological field. Three main issues are...
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