2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Designing a Technology Assessment post-graduation programme: Experiences, limits and needs
Author : António B. Moniz
Published in: Technikfolgen abschätzen lehren
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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Technology Assessment (TA) as a scientific approach aims to identify and to evaluate systematically the impact of technological innovation and developments with regard to the social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental systems. Such an approach can be identified as a “watchdog”, or an early warning system for risks caused by technology (cf. Bechmann et al. 2007).