Purpose Technological development has been a cornerstone of any emerging economy in
the past few years. Blockchain has emerged as a promising technology in the past few …

The discourse of social media adoption in higher education has often been funnelled
through utopian and dystopian perspectives, which are polarised but determinist …

The early 21st century has seen a plethora of future-oriented roadmaps and foresight
exercises focused on increasing food supply, often with the aid of advances in technology, in …

Requirements to integrate societal considerations into research and development practices
began appearing throughout the democratic industrialized world in the early 2000s and …

Stakeholder risk and benefit perceptions and attitudes towards a technology matter for the
societal response to these technologies. This is especially the case for technological …

Abstract New and Emerging Science and Technology (NEST) based innovations, eg in the
field of Life Sciences or Nanotechnology, frequently raise societal and political concerns. To …

ABSTRACT 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 …

Although responsible innovation (RI) is to change the scientific system to meet the grand
challenges of our time, its criteria are still unclear. This study explores meaning negotiation …

This book is a documentation of the summer school “Analyzing the Societal Dimensions of
Synthetic Biology” which took place in Berlin in September 2014. It was organized by the EA …

Technologies are often expected to enhance inclusive employment for people living with a
disability. Following conventional dichotomies, policy actors generally consider technologies …