scholarly journals Integrating Public Deliberation into Engineering Systems: Participatory Technology Assessment of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission

Astropolitics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tomblin ◽  
Zachary Pirtle ◽  
Mahmud Farooque ◽  
David Sittenfeld ◽  
Erin Mahoney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Engineering Systems ◽  
Participatory Technology Assessment ◽  
Asteroid Redirect Mission

Problem-Oriented Technology Innovation and Participatory Technology Assessment in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Chunfang Zhou ◽  
Lars Bo Henriksen ◽  
Søren Kerndrup
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Participatory Technology Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
Innovation Approach ◽  
Innovation Challenge ◽  
Oriented Approach

China is developing an ‘innovation-oriented nation' and meanwhile meeting challenges in both innovation practice and research. This chapter contributes to the book that introduces a problem-oriented approach to develop innovation research to a Chinese context that responses to the increasing challenges. Three questions will be focused on: 1) What are the main problems and challenges of innovation and research in China to become a front runner in the knowledge economy? 2) What is a problem-oriented innovation approach? and 3) How does it conceptualize the China's innovation challenge? Briefly, this chapter deepens the understanding of a new conceptual framework of a problem-oriented approach to innovation research and suggests new methods of technology assessment to China. It also provides implications for researchers in other cultural contexts around the world.

Lay perspectives on big data: Insights from citizen conferences in Germany

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
René König
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Participatory Technology Assessment ◽  
Lay Perspectives

As big data shapes more and more aspects of our lives, a wide-spread concern is that the affected people’s interests are not sufficiently taken into account. The field of participatory technology assessment (pTA) has attempted to make such processes more democratic by involving laypeople as an additional voice to the often rather expert-driven development. This text presents the lessons learned from such an endeavor, namely three citizen conferences on big data held in Germany. The empirical results are presented and critically contextualized in the larger discourse on pTA and big data. Therefore, the article sheds light on lay perspectives on big data while also providing insights into the strengths and weaknesses of participatory methods such as citizen conferences.

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