Constructive Technology Assessment

De wereld van de gemeentelijke uitvoeringsdiensten van werk en inkomen is de laatste jaren aan vele veranderingen onderhevig. Verantwoordelijkheden van de centrale overheden zijn decentraal neergelegd en de budgetten staan onder druk. Daarnaast verandert het werk ook steeds sneller door o.a. de intrede van nieuwe technologie en verregaande globalisering. Om continu in te kunnen spelen op veranderingen en daarbij de dienstverlening minimaal op peil te houden of zelfs te verbeteren, is volgens TNO een leven lang leren noodzakelijk op zowel individueel als organisatieniveau: de lerende organisatie. TNO heeft een aantal instrumenten ontwikkeld welke de wording van een lerende organisatie ondersteunt op het niveau van de mens en organisatie (structuur), waarbij EOL zich vooral richt op het ondersteunen van strategisch leiderschap met betrekking tot leren.

Within the FP6 project, ORGANIC REVISION a public web-based database was implemented to support the revision of the EU Regulation on organic agriculture. The database describes differences between the major European organic production standards plus other relevant international organic standards (e.g. Codex Alimentarius and IFOAM Basic Standards) in relation to the EEC Reg. 2092/91 ("the EU Regulation") and gives information on areas not yet covered by the EEC Reg. 2092/91. The database at: , is still under development.

Over dienstbaarheid 10 uitdagingen voor een klantgericht lokaal bestuur Tom Vandooren met medewerking van Mathias Van Compernolle Eerste editie, januari 2021 218 p. ISBN 978 90 4961 864 3 D/2020/0783/044 Art. nr. 06LM004916 NUR 820 © 2021 Uitgeverij Vanden Broele -Brugge Alle rechten voorbehouden. Behoudens de uitdrukkelijk bij wet bepaalde uitzonderingen mag niets uit deze uitgave worden verveelvoudigd, opgeslagen in een geautomatiseerd gegevensbestand of openbaar gemaakt, op welke wijze ook, zonder de uitdrukkelijke voorafgaande en schriftelijke toestemming van de uitgever. De redactie streeft steeds naar betrouwbaarheid van de gepubliceerde informatie waarvoor ze echter niet aansprakelijk gesteld kan worden.

In close relationships, snooping on device is commonly regarded as an invasion of privacy. The prevalence of such behavior is, however, difficult to assess. We compared two in-person survey techniques, one in which the question about snooping behavior is posed directly, and one in which strong anonymity controls are employed. Results (n=90) reveal that, while in the first case 10% of respondents admitted to snooping, in the second the estimate was 60%. This shows that, although there is a potent social desirability bias at play, strong anonymity controls do improve estimates. Furthermore, it suggests an alarming prevalence of snooping behavior among the target population.

In an effort in bringing together stakeholders of the organic farming and general agricultural policy sector within the EU in April May 2004 a group of stakeholders met for a one day- workshop in 11 European countries (AT, GB, DE, DK, IT, CH, CZ, PL, SI, EE, HU) to formulate policy recommendations for the development of the organic farming sector. Close personal contact of participants in these workshops facilitated policy learning and innovation at the national level and provided a platform to form alliances to decide on further actions. This contribution presents the synthesised results from all national workshops highlighting the current situation of organic farming policy in Europe and providing recommendations for future policy instruments 1 .

Cost-effective restoration measures that promote wider ecosystem and societal benefits. (Deliverable; No. D5.2). EU FP7 REFORM project. http://www.reformrivers.eu/deliverables/d52-cost-effective-restoration-measures-promote-wider-ecosystem-andsocietal-benefits General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

The railway industry is pushing for market uptake of research for better and competitive products and services as resulted from the workshop of the European Railway Advisory Council held this year 2010 . What seems less considered by the industry concerns is however the new paradigm resulting from the financial crisis from 2008 and, as important, the increasing exposure to social movements (this last one the focus of my research). In support, the present paper proposes to develop a scientific based methodology driven from technology assessment (TA) that manages research results within society. In a first instance such exercise should be limited to a specific technology in railways as it can be the High Speed (HS) train and the technologies it embeds. The high-speed trains integrate the most advanced technologies in the sector and represent billions of Euros of public investment, greater than for conventional lines. The expected impacts are to integrate the technology effort of all p...

Future Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) has been visible in railway planning since 2001. Over a dozen reports have been produced in the past thirteen years, the majority being descriptive endogenous technocentric visions. They have played a role in the revitalization of the sector, predominantly relating to collective alignments and interdependencies in choice and form of the technological path the various stakeholders’ follow to achieve policy goals. A striking example is the case of ERRAC visions, where strategic agendas and roadmaps greatly impacted the high-speed train technology transition from the second to the third generation of vehicles. However, today’s socio-economic events have revealed the limitations of previously applied FTA fall short for railways. In particular, there is an inability to bridge technocentric visions with the societal challenges that are becoming increasingly prominent on the policy agenda. To fill this FTA-need in railways it is here proposed a rol...

support. Also, Jens Schippl, a researcher on Transport Scenarios at ITAS-KIT, became influential in my work and co-author. Both Douglas and Jens directed me to the relevant theoretical references and methods in TA. My PhD was not only a theoretical journey crossing ways with people from TA and railways as mentioned. It was also a geographical journey encompassing learnings on the broad of strategic innovation management. Soon after I started my PhD in Portugal I moved for personal reasons to Santiago de Queretaro in Mexico. There I entered the academic carrier as researcher and lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Queretaro. This was only possible because Professor Alberto Pastrana and Professor Luis Rodrigo Valencia Perez at the Business and Administration School opened the door of their Innovation Lab. I am very much thankful to them for this unique opportunity. In Mexico, I also met a very interesting Professor in Philosophy of Innovation, Fernando Gonzales, PhD. Inspired by Mumford, Professor Fernando Gonzales developed charts from his interpretations to the understanding of technology as tool and process which were source of inspiration in my modeling on high-speed trains technical and commercial trajectories (figures 4.11 and 4.12). When I later moved to Shanghai, I was very fortunate to meet Professor Chen Song, Vice-Dean of the School of Economics and Management of Tongji University. He was also Professor for Innovation Management. He gave me the opportunity to continue my research and lecture at Tongji. The writing of the final pages of this dissertation happened instead in Hong Kong, where I subsequently moved afterwards. There, Professor Naubahar Sharif from the Social Sciences Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology challenged me to exploit my research results to the Hong Kong Express Rail Link. I would like to extend my gratitude to the members of the thesis evaluation committee (CAT-Comité de Avaliação de Tese), in particular Professor José Nuno Varandas da Silva Ferreira

Future Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) has been visible in railway planning since 2001. Over a dozen reports have been produced in the past thirteen years, the majority being descriptive endogenous technocentric visions. They have played a role in the revitalization of the sector, predominantly relating to collective alignments and interdependencies in choice and form of the technological path the various stakeholders' follow to achieve policy goals. A striking example is the case of ERRAC visions, where strategic agendas and roadmaps greatly impacted the high-speed train technology transition from the second to the third generation of vehicles. However today's socioeconomic events have revealed the limitations of previously applied FTA fall short for railways, particularly an inability to bridge technocentric visions with the societal challenges that are becoming increasingly prominent on the policy agenda. We propose that to fill this FTA-need in railways, there is a role for constructive technology assessment as bridging function towards achieving success in the transition to a next generation of high-speed trains. We base our findings in the analysis of reports and interviews with their commissioning institutions and drafters.

The present article posits constructive technology assessment as the dominant perspective of societal embedding practices in the technical development process by the high-speed train manufacturing industry, resulting from a research study conducted in 2011 (Moretto 2011). The article covers the main elements of the study, being the high-speed train manufacturing industry's strategic intelligence, technology pattern, knowledge exchange, technology trajectories; and finally presents the arguments justifying constructive ...

In this article the authors explore the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public safety domain at the example of the Living Lab Scheveningen (LLS). The boulevard of Scheveningen serves as a testing ground for experimenting with AI applications. Examples include maritime vessel detection, nitrous oxide detection, crowd density measurement, and predicting crowd levels. Not all experiments prove successful, but the knowledge gained from these experiments remains valuable. To study innovative AI applications, also innovative research concepts and methods are necessary (such as inclusive AI, ELSA, Quintuple Helix). The authors discuss the ethical, legal, and social aspects and democratic challenges of AI applications in the public safety domain.

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In Europe, the technology development of high-speed trains is increasingly exposed to societal needs, driven by ICT advancements, external to traditional design. Together with the liberalisation of the rail markets and increase pressures from other transport modes leads to an unprecedented situation where planers, operators and suppliers of high-speed have to take decision in this complex and competitive environment. In such broadening of elements influencing design and, thus, product development process, from the survey here to be presented, it was not observed technology options assessment or strategic agenda setting from visions shifting in the same way. For the high-speed train industry this new trend requires going beyond the visions of the past 15 to 20 years' practices of "sector endogenous" and structurally closed strategic methods approaches to a broader interaction with the widening of societal actors now capable of being active contributors to innovation from digitalization. This way to understand the European industry readiness for undertaking such supra systemic challenge, this paper presents the results from a survey conducted by the authors to 74 representatives of the high-speed train innovation chain regarding to which extent societal embedding is considered in the drafting of their visions and technology development projects. This work becomes even more pertinent if considered that the debate is now open in the railway industry (not exclusive to highspeed trains) as they are launching the joint initiative SHIFT2RAIL, revise ERRAC (the European Rail Research Advisory Council) mandate and enter in a new research cycle with the European research framework Horizon 2020.

A comprehensive typology or characterization of the various types of climate services is needed to give an overview that makes (potential) users aware of which climate services are available and where to look for them. It helps identify existing gaps in terms of unserved needs of the users. Different ways of characterizing climate services are used in practice. The factors used for this characterization differ depending on the intended application of the service, the delivery mechanism and projector user-specific needs. In this paper we discuss the advantages and challenges of using different characterization factors, such as sectors, themes, regions, purposes, time horizons, data sources, level of processing of climate data, background knowledge and type of climate services providers. Some recommendations are given on the factors to use for a common typology of climate services which are understood by a wide range of users. It may be difficult to create a single common typology that will also be understood by users with little background knowledge on climate data. Intermediaries, providing training resources and guidance at web portals on how to use and interpret climate information, can be essential to overcome this problem. Gap analysis is used to compare available and required climate services. Therefore, we advise to use the same typology for the analysis of gaps in available climate services.

Marine stewardship and complexity-How to enhance a better process of risk governance in the Norwegian area of the Arctic Ocean? In 2006, the Norwegian government published a white paper that presented an integrated oceans management plan for the Barents Sea and Lofoten areas (St.meld. nr. 8 (2005-2006). The plan was based on environmental principles such as sustainable development, the ecosystem approach and the precautionary approach (ibid). The plan came about mainly as an incentive to open new oil-and gas fields, and map consequences with respect to the environment and the other sectors using the ocean space (Knol 2010). The overall idea is to create a foundation for joint, cross-sector decision-making for those actors that use the area. The Barents Sea houses many commercially important fish species such as cod, haddock and saithe (Olsen et al 2009). Increased activity in the Arctic enhances the risks of unwanted effects on the fish stocks, and consequently the fisheries depending upon them. Potential severe risks include acute pollution from petroleum activities and shipping in addition to radiation from accidents due to more nuclear-powered vessels (Meld.st.10 2006: 127).Interests in the Barents Sea include oil and gas, shipping, fisheries, tourism and bioprospecting amongst others. Opening the management from single species to ecosystems, as well as spanning across sector boundaries, highlights interdependencies, trade-offs, knowledge gaps and joint risks. To govern risks of a high level of complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity, calls for an inclusive risk governance and a discourse with many different stakeholders. Theories from collaborative planning underlines the need for a procedure to reach consensus. How can a planning process including a great variety of stakeholders aim for reaching consensus? To improve this process, experts in the field of consensus building could be included in the new process with the new Barents Sea white paper that will apply from 2020 to 2040.

The use of permit trading for the abatement of atmospheric emissions of various substances has received much attention, and is a favored option due to its ability to induce efficient reduction of emissions. In a permit-based system, the selection of the permit allocation method is of crucial importance from the viewpoint of intersectoral equity. Less known is the impact of some emission allocation methods on the economic efficiency of the sectors to which it is applied. In our presentation, we compare output based allocation schemes to lump sum schemes from the dual viewpoints of cost efficiency and equity of burden sharing.

Researcher studies the development of race attitudes in children Study shows that discriminatory practices are internalized in young children Author: Amanda Hamermüller Maybe you've never noticed, but fictional characters in children's universe are mostly white. It may seem irrelevant, but it is definitely not. Discriminatory practices start to appear increasingly sooner. Many studies have indicated that young children already display the same levels of racial prejudice shown by adults. "The child can feel the society around him/her. It is not a slow process, actually it is quite fast and it doesn't depend only on family influence," says professor Airi Sacco. On her doctoral thesis, defended at the Psychology Graduation Program at URFGS, she created a chart which shows the development of children's race attitudes. Since a national study would be impracticable to conduct, the researcher made a comparison between children from Porto Alegre and Salvador. 542 children between the age of 6 and 14 have participated in the study-399 from Porto Alegre and 143 from Salvador.

The Welikeia project and the corresponding free online tool Visionmaker.NYC focus on the historical landscape ecologies of New York City. This article provides a brief introduction to online participatory tools, describes the Visionmaker tool in detail, and offers suggested ways to use the tool for Extension professionals based in and outside New York City. This information provides a basis for best practices Extension professionals can apply when using Visionmaker to support ecological thinking and participatory planning to catalyze change among urban residents.

This paper aims at contributing to theoretical aspects of Foresight from the perspective of the interdisciplinary body of knowledge that has become known as STS- Science and Technology Studies (c.f. Jasanoff 1994). Drawing in particular on STS insights on the Social Shaping of Technology (SST) we would like to investigate the possibility of Foresight to support policy makers in influencing innovation trajectories according to societal needs. In this paper, we highlight four different modes of policy support Foresight is expected to deliver: Foresight as systemic innovation policy instrument fostering innovation capability, Foresight orienting innovation towards societal needs, Foresight as agenda setting process and Foresight a provider of anticipatory intelligence as a base for decision making. From these starting points, we turn to Social Shaping of Technology. Central to SST is the idea that technology co-evolves in a complex interaction with society which is reflected in both th...

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the area of complexity and its link to systems thinking, with a view to defining the methodological requirements for extension services targeting complex problem situations. Agriculture in Australia is faced with a set of challenges that seem more complex than those several decades ago. In a change management context this poses significant challenges to the tools and methods employed.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the area of complexity and its link to systems thinking, with a view to defining the methodological requirements for extension services targeting complex problem situations. Agriculture in Australia is faced with a set of challenges that seem more complex than those several decades ago. In a change management context this poses significant challenges to the tools and methods employed.

A networked collection, also called a virtual collection, is located at more than one geographical/institutional site, spans the genetic diversity of a given species (genepool) and gathers stakeholders having a mutual interest in rationally conserving and exchanging germplasm. In the extreme application of this concept, several accessions could be conserved, each at a distinct site. Many intermediate strategies are also conceivable.

The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the cornerstone of the land consolidation (LC) project process. In the Walloon context, SEA h as to be renewed for technical and legal reasons. The concept of ecosystem services (ES) off ers promising perspectives for more multifunctional and stakeholders-oriented LC projec ts. In the context of the LC pilot project of Forville, a new methodology of SEA integrating E S was tested. ES were integrated within all steps of SEA (i.e. scoping, baseline, impact as ses ment, measures of avoidance, reduction and mitigation, monitoring).

This work identifies and describes residue treatment technologies for the tannery industry. The objective was considering each technology face to its potential to fulfill the requirements of a clean development mechanism (CDM) project. The CDM offers a source of revenues that might facilitate the adoption of environmental benign technologies by the industry, and therefore, aligns global and local benefits. Through a literature review we identified technologies that could be associated with CDM approaches and the CDM methods that already have been applied to the industry. Despite their high cost, low thermal conversion and gasification of residues are among the most promising technologies. Our next efforts consists of an emission inventory of the tanneries coupled to technical and economic feasibility studies of the most promising alternatives so that we propose a CDM road map for the sector.

Maglev technologies are at an historical turn, with the first commercial implementation of the Transrapid in China. This article examines what are the causes of market barriers encountered by such disruptive technologies and what are the future challenges. It underlines that behind technological rupture the real challenge stands in the management of systemic networks between manufacturers and operators.

The recently finished EU funded project MACIS reviewed observed and projected climate change impacts on biodiversity. It assessed mitigation and adaptation options. It also reviewed and developed methods to assess future impacts of climate change on biodiversity including the identification of policy options to prevent and minimise these impacts.

ETHNA System Project – Deliverable 2.3: Review article. This article provides a review of responsible research and innovation (RRI) literature, with a particular focus on how to provide open and inclusive ethical governance of research and innovation with a sound and solid theoretical foundation. Governance in this context refers to ways of steering processes in a desirable direction, in this case in the direction of responsible research and innovation, that is ethically acceptable and socially desirable. The concept of a meta-governance is subsequently introduced, enabling a mode of governance by procedural ethical principles that set the rules of the game, and provide a common direction to R&I activities. In this article we will draw lessons from the RRI literature on governance and meta-governance relevant for informing ETHNA and similar RRI-initiatives that aim to be open and inclusive. The article is based on the ETHNA report on state of the art and best practices (Moan et al. ...

Із збільшенням швидкостей руху поїздів TGV, виникає багато проблем, пов'язаних з дизайном використовуваними матеріалами та безпекою. Вирішення цих проблем потребує великих інвестицій від залізниць Франції в науково-дослідні проекти. Інвестиції повинні отримати вигоду в далекій перспективі. Нові лінії TGV повинні бути відкриті у місцях, де є достатня потреба у поїздках на великі відстані, що спричиняють отримання розумної вигоди системними операторами TGV. С увеличением скоростей движения поездов TGV, возникает множество проблем, связанных с дизайном, используемыми материалами и безопасностью. Решение этих проблем требует крупных инвестиций от железных дорог Франции в научно-исследовательские проекты. Инвестиции должны принести выгоду в отдаленной перспективе. Новые линии TGV должны быть открыты в местах, где есть достаточная потребность в поездках на большие расстояния, способствующих получению разумной прибыли системными операторами TGV. With increase of the speed limits of the TGV train systems, there are many problems arising as regards the design, used materials and safety. Solutions to these problems demand heavy investments from the SNCF company into research and development projects. As such investments must be profitable in a longer term, new TGV lines have to be established between places where there is a sufficient need for long distance travel able to bring reasonable profit to the TGV train system operator.

Introduction 9 1 Introduction 21 Part 2  Approaching RRI Governance 23 2 RRI as a governance paradigm: What is new? 31 3 Framings and frameworks: six grand narratives of de facto rri 39 4 Evolution of a concept: a scientometric analysis of RRI 47 5 Res-AGorA concepts and approach 55 6 The Res-AGorA Co-construction Method 63 Part 3  Empirical programme 65 7 Res-AGorA case studies: drawing transversal lessons 77 Case Study 1  Fracking 85 Case Study 2  Danish priority-setting for strategic research 93 Case Study 3  NanoNextNL 101 Case Study 4  Critical organisations 109 Case Study 5  Synthetic biology 115 8 Monitoring RRI in Europe: approach and key observations 121 9 RRI at European universities 127 10 RRI in European member states: the case of Germany 133 Part 4  Governing towards responsibilisation 135 11 Responsibility Navigator 161 12 Conclusion: making responsibility an institutionalised ambition 169 References 181 Authors 184 The Res-AGorA project consortium 185 Acknowledgement 186 Imprint 4  N a v i g a t i n g t o w a r d s s h a r e d r e s p o n s i b i l i t y i n r e s e a r c h a n d i n n o v a t i o n P r e f a c e  5

Introduction 9 1 Introduction 21 Part 2  Approaching RRI Governance 23 2 RRI as a governance paradigm: What is new? 31 3 Framings and frameworks: six grand narratives of de facto rri 39 4 Evolution of a concept: a scientometric analysis of RRI 47 5 Res-AGorA concepts and approach 55 6 The Res-AGorA Co-construction Method 63 Part 3  Empirical programme 65 7 Res-AGorA case studies: drawing transversal lessons 77 Case Study 1  Fracking 85 Case Study 2  Danish priority-setting for strategic research 93 Case Study 3  NanoNextNL 101 Case Study 4  Critical organisations 109 Case Study 5  Synthetic biology 115 8 Monitoring RRI in Europe: approach and key observations 121 9 RRI at European universities 127 10 RRI in European member states: the case of Germany 133 Part 4  Governing towards responsibilisation 135 11 Responsibility Navigator 161 12 Conclusion: making responsibility an institutionalised ambition 169 References 181 Authors 184 The Res-AGorA project consortium 185 Acknowledgement 186 Imprint 4  N a v i g a t i n g t o w a r d s s h a r e d r e s p o n s i b i l i t y i n r e s e a r c h a n d i n n o v a t i o n P r e f a c e  5

2.1.1 Introduction This section provides theory on innovation processes and innovation methods for industrial design engineering. The theory will be illustrated by results of design cases with sustainable energy technologies that have been executed with various innovation methods by students. Here, innovation will be considered as changes of product-market-technology combinations, and the theory will refer to this framework. In this Chapter, nine innovation methods that will be discussed in this book will be briefly introduced to the reader. These innovation methods are platform-driven product development (discussed in detail in Section 2.2), the Delft innovation model (discussed in detail in Section 2.3), TRIZ (theory of inventive problem solving) and technology road mapping (in Section 2.4 and 2.5), the design and styling of future products (Section 2.6), constructive technology assessment (Section 2.7) and the innovation journey (Section 2.8), risk diagnosing methodology (Section 2.9), and the multilevel design model (Section 2.10). First, we would like to question what innovation is and discuss the setting of innovation in product design and engineering. Innumerable definitions of innovation are available. Their main correspondence in meaning is related to the concept of novelty. For instance, Webster's dictionary describes "to innovate" as to make changes or to introduce new practices. Von Hippel (1988, 2005) defines an innovation as anything new that is actually used, whether major or minor. And Rogers (2003) describes an innovation as an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption. Innovation in the context of industrial design engineering is represented in Figure 2.1.1 as an innovation flower involving the following five fields: technology, design and styling,

Increasing public investments in distributed platform infrastructures have created new opportunities for economic growth and social welfare but at the same time have been associated with growing societal distrust in the power of science to solve societal problems. The concept of Responsible Research & Innovation has been advanced as providing mechanisms to recouple science and society to ensure that research and innovation continues to uphold its duties to society. In this paper, we explore the extent to which it is possible to identify repertoires of responsible innovation behaviour within extant research and innovation networks. We distinguish between two kinds of regional innovation network, those based on science and technology innovation, and those based on doing, using, inventing innovation in the eHealth sector where there are substantive societal concerns regarding responsibility and innovation. We contend that it appears that the coupling of patients to innovation networks through their prior association with innovators (e.g. as patients) affects the scope for responsibility. We therefore contend that more attention is required for understanding the dynamics of citizen-innovator coupling in regional innovation networks if responsibility is to become a more common property of these systems.

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In the first phase of the research project Nanotechnologies for tomorrow’s society (www.nanosoc.be), the research consortium explored a variety of futuristic visions or techno-scientific imaginaries. This exploration took the form a Policy Delphi, adapted to the particular objective of jointly constructing nano-imaginaries, taking participants ‘personal’ visions of possible future applications and societal issues as a starting point. The participants were nano-researchers, as well as societal experts and primary involved citizens. In this article we describe the theoretical frame which inspired our methodological approach, we present the analytical results we obtained, and we bring some reflections to the fore that arose as a result of the performance and analysis of this Delphi-exercise.