How entrepreneurs plan their business and build their companies plays a central role in how academia-industry-government relations are shaped in a particular region. But how do specific regional styles of building companies and understanding these relations develop? This paper conceptualises the...

How entrepreneurs plan their business and build their companies plays a central role in how academia-industry-government relations are shaped in a particular region. But how do specific regional styles of building companies and understanding these relations develop? This paper conceptualises the...

If the rhetoric pervading much of recent academic and policy discourse is to be taken at face value, engaging the public in the governance of science has become a kind of gold standard. However, very little is known about citizens' perspectives on public engagement in the governance of science,...

e-Partizipation benötigt Regeln für die Rechte und Pflichten der Diskursteilnehmer. Hauptsächlich werden in diesem Zusammenhang Regeln eingesetzt, wie sie ab den späten 1960er Jahren im Rahmen der Diskursethik diskutiert und später in der Theorie der deliberativen Demokratie...

Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA) is said to increase democratic legitimacy, take up lay knowledge and improve technological solutions. Today it is part of science/technology policy rhetoric and, sometimes, practice. We confront some elements of the scholarly discussion on PTA with...

Der Beitrag untersucht die Bestandteile und Prinzipien des Open Government-Konzeptes mit Blick auf gesellschaftliche und strategische Entwicklungen. Neben der Abgrenzung dieser Prinzipien und der Definition damit verbundener Termini („open“, Gemeinwohl) wird „offene Staatskunst“ zu drei...