Handbook of Technology Assessment

Edited by Armin Grunwald, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology and Director, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Director, Office of Technology Assessment, German Bundestag, Germany

‘There is no sector of science and technology so specific that major questions do not arise about which directions to prioritise for progress. Key queries are more about values, interests and politics than technical expertise. To resist authoritarian technocracy, deliberate efforts are essential to balance the powerful forces and privileged interests presently shaping innovation. For decades this has been the core challenge of technology assessment. Here, there could be no better collection of editor, chapters and authors than those behind this rich and authoritative overview of the state of the art.’

• ContentsPreface xxii1 Introduction to the Handbook of Technology Assessment 1Armin GrunwaldPART I THE CONTEXT OF TA2 Technology policy and governance 12Jakob Edler and Florian Wittmann3 Technoscience: changing relationships between science, technology andsociety 22Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent4 The changing nature of innovation 32Harro van Lente and Alexandra Supper5 Demands for, and motivations of, technology assessment 42Michael Decker and Armin GrunwaldPART II TA PRACTICE FIELDSSECTION IIA INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS6 Viewing technology assessment as science advice 54Chris Tyler and Armin Grunwald7 Participatory technology assessment: TA and the public 64Lars Klüver8 Technology assessment in science and engineering: theory, policy andpractice of integration research 77Mareike Smolka and Erik FisherSECTION IIB CASE STUDIES: TECHNOLOGIES9 Nuclear power: technology assessment and ethics of technology ininteraction 90Behnam Taebi, Vincent Lagendijk, Romy Dekker and Rinie van Est10 Autonomous vehicles and autonomous mobility 100Torsten Fleischer and Jens Schippl11 Assessing chatbots from a sociotechnical perspective 111Rinie van Est, Linda Kool and Lambèr Royakkers12 Genome editing for human health 121Steffen Albrecht and Arnold Sauter13 Technology assessment for health and care 131Armin Grunwald14 Climate engineering: how to present unbiased information topolicymakers and the public through technology assessments 141Katrina Pekar-Carpenter and Karen L. Howard15 Assessing technologies in industrial production: from old to recentcontroversies 151Bettina-Johanna Krings and António MonizSECTION IIC CASE STUDIES: STATES AND REGIONS16 Technology assessment in the United States: reinvention and reinvigoration 163Timothy Persons17 Parliamentary technology assessment (PTA) in Latin America 174Raimundo Roberts18 China’s progress in technology assessment: a systematic review 184Lei Huang, Liang Mei, Miao Liao and Yandong Zhao19 The institutionalisation and practice of technology assessment in India 192Aviram Sharma and Poonam Pandey20 Technology assessment and TA-like activities in Japan 201Hideaki Shiroyama and Makiko Matsuo21 Technology assessment in Central and Eastern Europe: patterns and catalysts 210Tanja Sinozic-Martinez, Titus Udrea and Michael Nentwich22 Technology assessment in engineering education in Russia 219Elena Seredkina, Elena Gavrilina, Natalia Cherepanova andLiliya Tukhvatulina23 Technology assessment in Africa: capacity needs and opportunities 228John Ouma Mugabe and Josephine Kaviti MusangoPART III TOWARDS A TA THEORYSECTION IIIA ELEMENTS OF TA THEORY24 Epistemology: knowledge of and for technology assessment 239Stefan Böschen, Gabriele Gramelsberger and Jan Cornelius Schmidt25 Ethics and technology assessment 249Sven Ove Hansson26 Technology assessment and democratic theories: a critical review 259Pierre Delvenne and Céline ParotteSECTION IIIB THEORY-GUIDED TA APPROACHES27 Constructive technology assessment: supporting the reflexiveco-evolution of technology and society 270Douglas K.R. Robinson28 Hermeneutic technology assessment 281Wenzel Mehnert and Armin Grunwald29 Techno-anthropological technology assessment 291Lars Botin and Tom Børsen30 Design for values 301Ibo van de Poel31 Technology assessment in innovation systems 310Ingrid OttPART IV THE TA METHODOLOGYSECTION IVA TA AS A PROCESS32 Technology assessment and evaluation 324Christine Rösch33 Beyond systems analysis to a multidimensional approach in technologyassessment 332Roh Pin Lee and Witold-Roger Poganietz34 Multidirectional knowledge transfer in various technology assessmentpractices 343Constanze Scherz and Anne-Floor Scholvinck35 Technology assessment as transdisciplinary research 354Antonietta Di Giulio and Rico DefilaSECTION IVB TECHNIQUES FROM THE TA TOOLBOX36 Participation and engagement 366Phil Macnaghten37 Future-oriented technology assessment (FTA): developments viaforesight and anticipation 376Fabiana Scapolo, Cristiano Cagnin, Lucia Vesnić-Alujević, AlexandrePolvora and Susana Nascimento38 Digital methods for technology assessment 387Pauline Riousset, Anders Koed Madsen, Nicolas Baya-Laffite andLionel Villard39 Hermeneutical understanding 397Nina JanichPART V NEIGHBOURS40 Responsible research and innovation 409Alexei Grinbaum41 Impact assessment versus technology assessment: distant relatives ordifferent species? 418Alan Bond, Jiří Dusik and Miltos Ladikas42 Exploring synergies: comparative analysis of technology assessmentand RRI in European industrial contexts 430Emad Yaghmaei, Zenlin Kwee, Martijn Wiarda and Steven FlipsePART VI EPILOGUE43 Technology assessment for a ‘good’ Anthropocene 441Armin GrunwaldIndex 451