The FET_Traces project will measure and assess the direct and indirect impacts of the FET programme on the science and technology landscape and its perception by individual researchers who are potential proposers for FET Open and FET Proactive projects. The…
Assessing the impacts of the industrial internet-of-things and developing policy options for production & society in the future (Lecture & Seminar in Buenos Aires, 12.02.2015, Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (CIECTI), Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e…
Petra Schaper-Rinkel The role of future-oriented technology analysis in the governance of emerging technologies: The example of nanotechnology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2012.10.007, in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 80, Issue 3, March 2013, Pages 444–452 Abstract This paper analyzes the role that…
Amanatidou, E., M. Butter, V. Carabias, T. Könnölä, M. Leis, O. Saritas, P. Schaper-Rinkel and V. van Rij (2012). „On concepts and methods in horizon scanning: Lessons from initiating policy dialogues on emerging issues.“ Science and Public Policy 39(2): 208-221.…
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 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…
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 workprogramme), to provide scenarios…
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…
Nanotechnologien haben nicht nur das Potenzial, die Erschließung konventioneller Energieträger zu optimieren. Sie können darüber hinaus ganz neuartige energietechnische Anwendungen entwickeln. Entsprechend hoch ist die Bedeutung des Energiebereichs in den öffentlichen Förderprogrammen der Nanotechnologie. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund umfassender Forschungsförderung hat…
Petra Schaper-Rinkel: Converging Technologies. Das Versprechen von der Steigerung der Leistungsfähigkeit, in: Ökologisches Wirtschaften, 2/2010 Download als pdf Mit Converging Technologies ist das Versprechen verbunden, dass Menschen durch ihre Anwendungen leistungsfähiger werden. In welche Richtung geht eine Innovationspolitik, die auf…