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Policy-Oriented
Technology Assessment
Across Europe:
Expanding Capacities
Edited by
Lars Klüver
The Danish Board of Technology Foundation, Denmark
Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen
The Danish Board of Technology Foundation, Denmark
and
Marie Louise Jørgensen
The Danish Board of Technology Foundation, Denmark
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xii
List of Contributors xiv
Introduction: On the Concept of Cross-
European Technology Assessment 1
Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen and Lars Klüver
The TA Manifesto 13
Part I Expanding Technology Assessment
1 Seeing Technology Assessment with
New Eyes 18
Rinie van Est, Michael Nentwich, Jurgen
Ganzevles and André Krom
2 Expanding the TA Landscape – Lessons
from Seven European Countries 37
Leonhard Hennen, Linda Nierling and
Judit Mosoni-Fried
3 Adopting TA in Central and Eastern
Europe – An Organizational Perspective 57
Lenka Hebáková, Edgaras Leichteris,
Katalin Fodor and Ventseslav Kozarev
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4 Technology Assessment for Parliaments – Towards
Reflexive Governance of Innovation 64
Danielle Bütschi and Mara Almeida
5 Doing Cross-European Technology Assessment 77
Marianne Barland, Danielle Bütschi, Edgaras Leichteris
and Walter Peissl
Part II Exemplifying Cross-European
Technology Assessment
6 The Future Panel on Public Health Genomics – Lessons
Learned and Future Perspectives 90
André Krom, Mara Almeida, Leo Hennen, Edgaras
Leichteris, Arnold Sauter and Dirk Stemerding
7 The Future of Ageing – Stakeholder Involvement on the
Future of Care 105
Marianne Barland, Pierre Delvenne and Benedikt Rosskamp
8 Europe Wide Views on Sustainable Consumption 114
Marie-Louise Jørgensen, Ventseslav Kozarev and Kathrine
Lindegaard Juul
Part III Building Capacities for Cross-European TA
9 Making Technology Assessment Accessible to New Players 124
Pierre Delvenne, Benedikt Rosskamp, Ciara Fitzgerald and
Frédéric Adam
10 Training TA Professionals 131
Danielle Bütschi, Zoya Damaniova, Ventseslav Kovarev
and Blagovesta Chonkova
11 Building Community – Or Why We Need an Ongoing
Conference Platform for TA 139
Constanze Scherz, Lenka Hebáková, Leonhard Hennen,
Tomáš Michalek, Julia Hahn and Stefanie B. Seitz
12 E-Infrastructure for Technology Assessment 147
M. Nentwich
Bibliography 157
Index 164
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List of Figures
1.1 Four spheres involved in the relation model
of PTA 23
1.2 Currently operational models of (P)TA 24
2.1 Overview over core economic and R&D data 41
2.2 Possible pathways towards TA 49
7.1 The PACITA scenarios for the future of ageing 109
12.1 Homepage of the TA portal 153
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List of Tables
1.1 Key elements of the relational model of TA
and related research issues and lessons learned 30
3.1 Likelihood of institution taking over a
particular function 63
5.1 Overview of PACITA example projects 81
6.1 Items highlighted in Policy Brief on Public
Health Genomics 96
7.1 Content of scenarios on the future of ageing 110
7.2 Policy recommendations produced by
participating stakeholders 112
8.1 Europe Wide Views in numbers 118
11.1 2nd PACITA Conference programme 145
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Preface
This volume gives an updated picture of technology
assessment (TA) in Europe and provides outlooks towards
the establishment of a common European TA capacity for
knowledge-based policy formation.
The volume gathers contributions from participants
in the PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in
Technology Assessment) project, which ran from 2011 to
2015. The volume is divided into three parts, which are
preceded by Introduction that posits the expansion of
TA capacities across Europe as a necessary supplement
to existing European institutions, as well as a re-print
of the so-called PACITA Manifesto, which urges policy
makers at national and European levels to support such
an expansion.
Part I of the book – Expanding Technology Assessment –
pushes the concept of TA beyond its traditional limits
and shows how TA may be institutionalized as a flexible
system of collaborative efforts among a diverse range of
actors across Europe. Chapter 1 examines existing TA
institutions and their institutional roles and argues that
TA as an umbrella term in fact applies to a broad range
of ‘TA-like’ policy support functions that might meaning-
fully be termed ‘policy-oriented technology assessment’.
Chapter 2 gives an account of the practical efforts and
successes within PACITA at expanding TA geographically
to the participating countries, yet without formal parlia-
mentary TA institutions, namely Belgium (Wallonia),
Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania
and Portugal and shows the multiplicity of ways in which
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