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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…