Phasing out fossil fuels, banning pesticides, exiting nuclear power, retiring the combustion engine — modern societies are under growing pressure to actively end established unsustainable technologies. Yet while innovation is intensively studied, remarkably little is known about how successful endings actually come about. Technologies of Discontinuation: Towards Transformative Policies (Edward Elgar, 2026) closes this gap. … Continue reading How do you end a technology? A blueprint for governing the end of the old
The State Strikes Back: Rethinking Innovation Policy for Turbulent Times
Our research handbook “The New Role of the State for Transformative Innovation” (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026) examines the evolving role of the State in fostering transformative innovation amid 21st-century challenges including climate change and geopolitical shifts. In 27 chapters more than 50 world leading scholars present state-of-the-art expertise about options and limitations of State governance … Continue reading The State Strikes Back: Rethinking Innovation Policy for Turbulent Times
Public and private bureaucracies as transformation agent?
Large public and private organisations can be crucial actors if not gate keepers for societal and socio-technological change towards Sustainable Development Goals and climate neutrality. Yet, as bureaucratic organisations they are prone to conservatism and inertia. Typical examples are public energy utilities, universities, or funding organisations. In a recent paper with Jakob Edler and Florian … Continue reading Public and private bureaucracies as transformation agent?
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
