Barend van der Meulen (University of Twente) and I have published a comment in ResearchEurope (March 7, 2024). For decades, particularly since the turn of the millennium, Dutch universities have attracted a growing number of students and scholars from other European countries and worldwide. English-language working environments and publishing in international journals have made research … Continue reading “Populist policies threaten Dutch universities’ unique appeal”
Technology, Society & Governance in the 21st century
Farewell Symposium Stefan Kuhlmann University of Twente, 24 March 2022 Key note speakers of the Symposium were Pierre-Benoit Joly, INRAE/LISIS (Paris/Toulouse); Annalisa Pelizza, University of Bologna; Jakob Edler, Fraunhofer Inst. Systems & Innovation Research (ISI, Karlsruhe); Gonzalo Ordoñez Matamoros, Univ. Externado de Colombia (Bogota); Stefan Kuhlmann (University of Twente, STePS). Speakers and discussions addressed pressing … Continue reading Technology, Society & Governance in the 21st century
The New Protocol for Science Diplomacy
Science Diplomacy has the potential to play a considerable role in future international collaborations intent on tackling societal challenges. This ambition cannot be achieved by positioning science diplomacy as a soft power to be utilized by single countries to further their interests. Tackling societal challenges is a cosmopolitan ambition and common, shared interest that requires … Continue reading The New Protocol for Science Diplomacy
Towards effective science diplomacy practice
Ewert Aukes, Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros, Stefan Kuhlmann, and Sanaz Honarmand-Ebrahimi have published a policy brief focusing on key premises for the development of effective governance mechanisms for science diplomacy. This Policy Brief is a product of the European H2020 funded project S4D4C. Grand societal challenges require collective action within and across national borders. Effective action is … Continue reading Towards effective science diplomacy practice
Tentative governance of emerging science and technology
By Stefan Kuhlmann, Peter Stegmaier and Kornelia Konrad 2019 we published an Introduction (open access) and Special Section in the journal Research Policy. While actors in public policy, industry, or civil society organisations attempting to ‘govern’ Emerging Science and Technology (EST) may try to promote desired effects, often the actor constellations and institutional arrangements, deliberations … Continue reading Tentative governance of emerging science and technology
Review of Danish Research and Innovation System
Ten steps, and a leap forward: taking Danish innovation to the next level - says a peer review panel of Christian Ketels, Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz, Jackie Hunter, Stefan Kuhlmann, Tony Raven, Pieter Heringa, Uri Gabai, Göran Marklund and Christopher Palmberg. Abstract: "Denmark is among Europe’s innovation leaders, with a strong science base, high overall investments … Continue reading Review of Danish Research and Innovation System
Handbook on Science and Public Policy
Dagmar Simon, Stefan Kuhlmann, Julia Stamm and Weert Canzler have edited a Handbook on Science and Public Policy The handbook assembles state-of-the-art insights into the co-evolutionary and precarious relations between science and public policy. Beyond this, it also offers a fresh outlook on emerging challenges for science (including technology and innovation) in changing societies, and … Continue reading Handbook on Science and Public Policy
Twente Approach to Engaged Science, Technology and Policy Studies
Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) generate sites for articulation, contestation, navigation, negotiation, and change in modern societies. STI Studies aim to understand and conceptualize the material, social, intellectual, political and moral dynamics of STI in society. Some STI Studies groups also get involved in the active shaping of technology and innovation. Our department of Science, … Continue reading Twente Approach to Engaged Science, Technology and Policy Studies
Handbook Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies
Kuhlmann, S. & Ordóñez-Matamoros, G. (eds.) (2017): Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies: Towards Better Models, Cheltenham, UK (Edward Elgar), http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781783471911 | Elgaronline http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781783471904.xml. Although in recent years some emerging economies have improved their performance in terms of R&D investment, outputs and innovative capacity, these countries are still blighted by extreme poverty, inequality … Continue reading Handbook Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies
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