Impact assessment versus technology assessment: distant relatives or different species?

Alan Bond, Jiří Dusik and Miltos Ladikas

Chapter 41 in Handbook of Technology Assessment, 2024, pp 418-429 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Impact Assessment (IA) is a structured process for identifying the future consequences of a current or proposed action at different levels of decision-making (policies, plans, programs, projects), and has a goal of contributing to sustainable development. IA and Technology Assessment (TA) share the same roots in the Office of Technology Assessment of the US Congress. Whilst IA is methodologically similar to TA, it differs in having almost universal application globally. The advent of the fourth industrial revolution (IR4) means that the more relevant tools of TA need to be applied more universally. This brings a unique opportunity for IA and TA to join forces in providing accurate analysis and comprehensive policy advice. This chapter will examine the overlaps and gaps between IA and TA, and identify existing areas for synergy, and also a research agenda for closing the gaps that have opened up since the two processes diverged.

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