EASST-4S 2024 Open Panel: Exploring Innovation Ecosystems
Dear colleagues,
We will organize an open panel on Exploring Innovation Ecosystems at the EASST-4S 2024 Conference in Amsterdam (1619 July).
We are looking forward to receiving your paper abstracts until the 12th of February 2024 through this website: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14032
Exploring Innovation Ecosystems: Theories, Methods, and Practices for Systemic Approaches to the Governance of Science and Technology
Convenors:
Mareike Smolka (Wageningen University and RWTH Aachen University), Christian Herzog (University of Lbeck), Phil Macnaghten (Wageningen University), Laurens Klerkx (University of Talca and Wageningen University), Mark Ryan (Wageningen Research), Philipp Neudert (Human Technology Center, RWTH Aachen University), Bernd Carsten Stahl (University of Nottingham), Merel Noorman (Tilburg University)
Abstract:
In recent years, governments, academia, and industry have mobilized the innovation ecosystem concept. For example, the European Commission seeks to build an AI ecosystem of excellence. Various regions support innovation valleys to counter exnovation. Academia-industry partnerships promise swift technology transfer from laboratories to markets via innovation ecosystems. Meanwhile, STS scholars have called for a systemic turn in engagement research, stemming from unease with design choices that fail to address the systemic complexities of research and innovation. Scholars emphasize that many technologies, particularly AI, are better understood and governed as systems rather than as single devices. Some have proposed ecosystemic frameworks and methods for STS and Responsible Innovation. However, empirical research is still scarce.
Building on this emerging body of literature, this panel aims to further develop theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches for innovation ecosystem governance while reflexively attending to the positionality of engaged scholars in the system. It combines paper presentations with a discussion forum to explore new research avenues. We are particularly interested in discussing these questions:
What is the performativity of the ecosystem analogy and related concepts, e.g., innovation biotopes and ecologies of intermediaries?
How do discourses on innovation ecosystems relate to established systems theory/thinking?
Which methods help us better understand innovation ecosystems?
How can we compare different innovation ecosystems, e.g., their emergence, structural formation, and organization? Which forms of governance take place in different types of ecosystems?
How do actors perceive their role, agency, and the innovation ecosystem itself in which they are embedded? How can governance build individual and systemic capacities for widening and sustaining agency?
Which role do institutions play in innovation ecosystems and which competencies do they require to participate in governance?
How can we assess and sustain the effects of governance on system dynamics?
All the best,
Mareike Smolka
Dr. Mareike Smolka Assistant Professor, Wageningen University & Research Research Fellow, RWTH Aachen University Website: mareikesmolka.carrd.co E-mail: mareike.smolka@wur.nl
EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net
Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst
Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.net
EASST-Eurograd
30 recent messages
- 26/07/2024 FW: Hiring: 3-year postdoctoral fellow on FemTech project
- 25/07/2024 CfP ECREA Communication History Workshop, CERN, Switzerland, 5-7 February 2025
- 25/07/2024 Call for Papers - International Workshop “Testing under crisis / Testing the crises”
- 18/07/2024 CfP: Technology and Language - philosophical, historical, socio-anthropological, linguistic dimensions
- 18/07/2024 Research Associate Opportunity in Social Science of Human-AI at Alan Turing Institute & University of Edinburgh - Closing on 7 August 2024
- 11/07/2024 Announcing Early Career Researcher Events at EASST-4S 2024 Amsterdam
- 11/07/2024 17th CIFAS Field School in Ethnographic Research Methods (online)
- 11/07/2024 Llamado postdoctoral // Cuidado de suelos y agroecología
- 06/07/2024 Submission of item for EUROGRAD list
- 05/07/2024 JOB: 3 Professorships in Philosophy & Blockchain, Political Science & Blockchain, Sociology & Blockchain
- 03/07/2024 International Intelligence, Sustainability, and Innovation in Healthcare (ISIH 2024), Roanne, France, October 30-31, 2024
- 03/07/2024 Journal of Science Communication
- 03/07/2024 CfA: “En/Countering Tracking”, Computational Culture, Special Issue
- 03/07/2024 Funded PhD Scholarship at Liverpool (" Islamicate Scholars, Algorithms and the Making of the Contemporary World: A Decolonial Study of Mathematical, Scientific and Technological Practice in the Islamic Golden Age")
- 28/06/2024 TATuP 33/2 (2024): new publication on "Malevolent creativity and civil security" online
- 28/06/2024 Visiting research fellowships, Linköping University, urban and regional climate transition
- 28/06/2024 CETE-P: Postdoctoral Vacancy in environmental ethics
- 28/06/2024 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing (BAIQC 2024), Roanne, France, October 30-31, 2024
- 28/06/2024 Postdoc Position, four years, sociology of science/STS at Bielefeld University
- 26/06/2024 Offre de contrat doctoral - Le concept d'exposome comme instrument de politique de santé environnementale - LISIS
- 26/06/2024 Understanding the EU AI Act
- 26/06/2024 Senior Scientist (Postdoc) in STS for 4 years, University of Klagenfurt, Deadline: July 10, 2024
- 26/06/2024 Job advert PDRA more-than-human smart cities, London UK
- 26/06/2024 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Revolutions (AIR 2024) - Roanne, France, October 30-31, 2024
- 26/06/2024 Call for Papers, RESET journal - Digitalization of "Local" Politics
- 26/06/2024 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - PhD position in Social Sciences (Equality Studies; Health and Society) at University College Dublin
- 26/06/2024 Invitation to Panel discussion on Responsible Innovation Communication, 4 July 6-8pm (hybrid)
- 17/06/2024 DEADLINE EXTENDED: 4th Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA 2024)
- 15/06/2024 Call for Papers: "Contesting Artificial Intelligence: Communicative Practices, Organizational Structures, and Enabling Technologies" (Frontiers Research Topic)
- 10/06/2024 Reminder - Routledge Handbook of the History of Medicine: Medicine from/at the Margins - Contributor expression of interest