Technology Policy : Towards an Integration of Social and Ecological Concerns

Intro -- Preface -- Technology Policy in the Process of Change: Changing Paradigms in Research and Technology Policy? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Traditional Motives for Public R&T Policy -- 3 From Material Technology to Technological Practice -- 4 The Crisis of Growth-oriented R&T Policy -- 5 The Role of Technology Policy: Support or Regulation? -- 6 R&T Policy as a Social Experiment -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- From Socio-economic to Socially Oriented Innovation Policy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Socio-economic Innovation Policy -- 2.1 Conventional Wisdom -- 2.2 Institutional Implementation -- 2.3 Socially Oriented Technology Policy -- 3 The Dualistic Model of Technology Policy -- 4 Socially Oriented Innovation Policy -- 4.1 The Limitations of Socio-economic Innovation Policies -- 4.2 The Nature of Socially Oriented Innovation Policies -- 4.3 Neo-Taylorist and Skill-Based Manufacturing Trajectories -- 5 Socially Oriented Innovation Policy Institutions -- 5.1 Technology Transfer and Diffusion Mechanisms -- 5.2 Management and the Development of Human Capital Incentives -- 5.3 Workers Representatives and Concrete Codetermination Support -- 5.4 Nationally Based Skill Formation Restructuring -- 6 European Promotion of Human Centred or Anthropocentric Systems -- 6.1 European Projects and Programmes -- 6.2 The Socio-technical Trajectory Defined -- 6.3 Key Issues of Human Centred System Promotion -- 6.3.1 Direct Promotion -- 6.3.2 Technology Orientation -- 6.3.3 Social Orientation -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Technology Policy: The Interaction between Governments and Markets -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Characteristics of Technological Change and Technology Policy -- 3 How Technology Policy is Formulated and Implemented in Practice -- 3.1 The Usefulness of Theory as a Basis for Technology Policy.