Constructive technology assessment: supporting the reflexive co-evolution of technology and society

Douglas K.R. Robinson

Chapter 27 in Handbook of Technology Assessment, 2024, pp 270-280 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Originating in the mid-1980s, Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA) places an emphasis on building reflexive capacity to aid strategy articulation during the emergence, diffusion and embedding of new technologies in society. Placing at its heart insights into the dynamics of co-evolution of science, technology society, CTA is characterised by integrating social science expertise with other sources of knowledge about how new technologies may unfold, the socio-technical systems they may shape and the changes in society to which the focus technology may contribute. CTA is ‘constructive’ because of its goal to be part of the development of new technologies and shape their embedding in society. After more than thirty years of experimentation and embedding of CTA activities around the globe, what can we say about Constructive Technology Assessment as a particular form of Technology Assessment?

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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