We need to feed an estimated population in excess of 9 billion by 2050 with diminishing
natural resources, whilst ensuring the health of people and the planet. Herein we connect …

Changing relations between science and democracy–and controversies over issues such as
climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms and smart technologies …

The paper critically reviews the work of David Collingridge in the light of contemporary
concerns about responsibility and accountability in innovation, public engagement with …

The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how
circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the …

This paper addresses key implications in momentous current global energy choices–both for
social science and for society. Energy can be over-used as a lens for viewing social …

Technological advance affects almost all areas of human life. Rapid digitization, increased
mobility, new biotechnologies, and nanotechnology deeply influence, amongst others …

This article analyses how a recent idiom of innovation governance,'responsible innovation',
is enacted in practice, how this shapes innovation processes, and what aspects of …

Communicating science and technology is a high priority of many research and policy
institutions, a concern of many other private and public bodies, and an established subject of …

Within the policy structures of the European Union (EU), the concept of 'Responsible
Research and Innovation'(RRI) appears to have a very specific emergence point, via a …

There is a crisis of valuation practices in the current academic life sciences, triggered by
unsustainable growth and “hyper-competition.” Quantitative metrics in evaluating …