The paper resumes the participation in PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment) Summer School, in Liège, in June 2012. -- Technology Assessment ; Technology ; Society ; Innovation ; Conference ; PACITA

Emerging technologies such as synthetic biology and nanotechnology promise to solve many of humanity’s most serious problems, but they also pose the risk of adverse health effects, environmental degradation, and even dehumanization. Given the transformative yet destabilizing potential of such...

Regulatory oversight of emerging technologies in the case of developing countries has historically been a touché topic. Primarily because regulation per se is seen as unfriendly to business ventures entering as yet uncharted areas of technological evolution that holds a promise of positive...

The definition and explanation of concepts in science are a vital scientific activity because a scientific field can develop only on the base of new comprehensive concepts and categories of concepts and their applications that enlarge the domain of scientific analyses. The conception technology...

The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the corporate foresight research field by investigating capabilities, practices, and challenges particularly in the context of interorganizational settings and networked organizations informed by the theoretical perspectives of the relational...

Decision-makers, experts and laymen in different historical periods and in different socio-economic systems shared at least one desire: to know their future in advance or even to influence it for their advantage. They have used very different approaches and methods from spiritual/religious ones...

This paper offers an approach to assess the quality of foresight knowledge deployed or generated during foresight exercises. Although 'foresight knowledge' is a special case, the idea of having a procedure, an approach or a method available for assessing the quality of knowledge is tempting:...