This open access book examines the role of pilot and demonstration projects as crucial
devices for conducting innovation in the context of the energy transition. Bridging literature …

This article addresses the practices of implementing science policies that involve science-
society relations, such as funding policies on ethical, legal, and social aspects (ELSA) and …

In this article, we introduce the concept of 'the imagined scientist'. It inverts previous
discussions of the public as an imagined community with a knowledge deficit, to examine …

The problem of developing research and innovation in accordance with society's general
needs and values has received increasing attention in research policy. In the last 7 years …

This article is about manga-based messaging for risk communication on COVID-19,
describing the practice of collaboration between a group of experts and a popular manga …

In this paper, we analyse how the socialisation of new science and technology
(technoscience) is performed through newspapers. Newspapers remain an important source …

This chapter discusses the shaping of pilot projects. Against a critique that such projects
tend to be shaped top-down by powerful actors, our discussion notes how such projects are …

As in many other policy areas, there is a rising concern about how to involve the general
public in heritage management and preservation. We analyse attempts made by Swedish …

Today, industrial-scale mining is a high-tech activity that transforms places and regions by
creating massive technological infrastructures.“The public” and its relationship with this …

“The idea of the new shows a basic bivalence, which makes the concept fascinating and
mysterious: In order to be recognized and appreciated, a novelty must have some familiar …