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Integrated assessment of emerging science and technologies as creating learning processes among assessment communities
(SpringerOpen, 2016-07-28)
Emerging science and technologies are often characterised by complexity, uncertainty and controversy. Regulation and governance of such scientific and technological developments needs to build on knowledge and evidence ...
Patent Ethics: The Misalignment of Views Betweenthe Patent System and the Wider Society
(Springer, 2017)
Concerns have been voiced about the ethical implications of patenting practices in the field of biotechnology. Some of these have also been incorporated into regulation, such as the European Commission Directive 98/44 on ...
Regional Development and Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of the Role of Legitimacy
(De Gruyter Open, 2016)
This paper presents results from a study of Czech Local Action Groups (LAGs),
focusing on gaining knowledge about their internally perceived legitimacy and their
potential role in local ...
Standardisation in the Field of Nanotechnology: Some Issues of Legitimacy
(Springer Verlag, 2012-12)
Nanotechnology will allegedly have a revolutionary impact in a wide
range of fields, but has also created novel concerns about health, safety and the
environment (HSE). Nanotechnology regulation ...
Social Life Cycle Assessment as a resource for Responsible Research and Innovation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-21)
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a currently important proposal for doing science and innovation with and for society. Sustainability has for the last 30 years had a similar function in providing limits and ...
Are assessments responding to a dynamic environment? Evidence from four emerging techno-scientific domains
(Oxford University Press, 2014-05-23)
Assessments of emerging science and technologies can assist actors to anticipate and influence techno-scientific development. Although the importance of contextual factors in techno-scientific development has been stressed, ...
Organising Ethics: The Case of the Norwegian Army
(Akademika, 2012)
This article shows how institutionalism, a theory in organisational social science, provides a model for diagnosing organisational challenges that influence the ethical practices and integration in the Norwegian Army. ...
Assessments of emerging science and technologies: Mapping the landscape
(Oxford University Press, 2014-05-23)
This paper presents comparative work from the EST-Frame project on technology appraisal. It focuses on studies of ‘advisory domains’ (more or less distinct traditions for assessment of technologies, such as risk analysis, ...
A Report from the Field: Doing RRI from Scratch in an Assisted Living Technology Research and Development Project
(Springer, 2018)
The transdisciplinary Assisted Living project conducts research within (ICT), health science, social science and ethics. The overall aim of the project is to advance responsible research and innovation (RRI) in the field ...
Evaluating Ethical Frameworks for the Assessment of Human Cognitive Enhancement Applications
(Springer, 2017)
This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, ...