On Prospective Technology Studies

0372925 - FLÚ 2012 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Machleidt, Petr
Technological Foresight and Technology Assessment. Methods for Enabling Innovations in the Czech Republic.
On Prospective Technology Studies. Karlsruhe: Impressum - KIT, 2011 - (Banse, G.; Grunwald, A.; Hronszky, I.; Nelson, G.), s. 195-198. ISBN 978-3-86644-731-8
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : society * public * science and technology * promotion of innovations
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

Foresight was always taken as a tool supporting and enabling "an innovation system", namely the national innovation system. Today we can see that TA thematic aims have been also moved towards the problems of "innovations". This shift from TA towards innovations and technology analysis is very significant. TA thus has become rather analysis of relationships between innovations and technology. There is quite evident and enormous pressure on development of innovations, applied by the current society in the field of science and technology. TA process which would fail to respect this pressure wouldn’t have any chance to be practically applied, even in the case that it would accentuate any of never so much significant social priorities.
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