EA REPORT 1/2016
CONTENTS
20 YEARS EA! ................................................................................................ 04
• EA Director Petra Ahrweiler on 20 Years EA European Academy ............. 04
• 2016 Annual EA Conference: Innovating the Gutenberg Galaxis
and Celebration of Festivities “20 Years EA” (26–27 January) ................... 05
• ‘Ahrweiler Freedom Weeks’: Lecture about “Knowledge and Power”
(3 March) ..................................................................................................................... 05
• “200 Years County of Ahrweiler”: Showcase Event (22 May) ..................... 05
• Network Technology Assessment and EA European Academy: Mastering
‘Grand Challenges’ (16–18 November) ....................................................... 06
EA NEWS........................................................................................................ 07
EA RESEARCH .............................................................................................. 08
New EA Projects ........................................................................................... 08
• EIS: Enabling Innovation by Simulation ...................................................... 08
• CECAN: Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus ......... 08
Current EA Projects ..................................................................................... 09
• ZIE: Long-Term Viable Energy Innovations ................................................ 09
• EnAHRgie: Conception of Sustainable Land Use and Energy Supply at the
Municipal Level ............................................................................................ 09
• KNOWeSCAPE: Analyzing the Dynamics of Information and Knowledge
Landscapes .................................................................................................. 10
• PEERE: New Frontiers of Peer Review ........................................................ 10
• INOGOV: Innovations in Climate Governance .............................................. 11
EA Projects Completed in 2015/2016........................................................... 11
• ProGReSS: Promoting Global Responsible Research &
Social and Scientific Innovation .................................................................. 11
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REAT: Governance of Responsible Innovation.......................................... 11
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BS II: Deep Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders .........................12
• IPSE: Innovation Policy Simulation for the Smart Economy (associated) . 12
EA Research Focus: Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) ............. 13
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RI – an Issue for EA Studies? .....................................................................13
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ompleted RRI-related EA Projects ........................................................... 13
• “ Research can be more responsible with the right partner”
(Petra Ahrweiler, EuroScientist, 1/2016) ...................................................... 14
FURTHER EA EVENTS .................................................................................. 14
Upcoming ...................................................................................................... 14
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rd Energy and Society Conference (12–14 September 2016) ................... 14
Past ................................................................................................................14
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ymposium on Deep Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders
(11–13 December 2015) ............................................................................... 14
• Inter- and Trans-disciplinarity Author-meets-Critics Workshop
(10–11 December 2015) ............................................................................... 15
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015 SKIN 4 Workshop and Summer School: Simulating Knowledge
Dynamics – Training and Work in Progress (19–22 May) .............................15
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015 Annual EA Conference: Planning, Prediction, Scenarios
(11–12 May) .................................................................................................. 15
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS ....................................................................... 15
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS .......................................................................... 18
PUBLICATION DETAILS ................................................................................ 20
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My vision for EA’s future is to connect two objectives:
delivering internationally recognised excellent scientific research
and having a high impact on policy and society.
EA Director Petra Ahrweiler
20 YEARS EA!
EA Director Petra Ahrweiler on 20 Years EA European Academy
Science, technology and innovation rapidly change our societies opening
up new opportunities and desirable options for action, but also presenting
unknown risks and consequences. The EA European Academy of Technology
and Innovation Assessment is an institutionally funded, interdisciplinary
research institute, which empirically analyses, theoretically reflects, and
computationally models these developments to provide scientific knowledge
and policy advice in co-design with our stakeholders.
Dear EA Report Reader,
I am particularly delighted to use this first 2016 EA Report for
proudly presenting our activities and festivities surrounding
“20 years EA European Academy”. Please find details on our
events on the following pages of this EA Report and on our
website.
In 2012, the position of director was internationally advertised by the EA
shareholders now featuring a job description not only asking for TA but also
for Innovation Research and Assessment. Becoming the new director in 2013,
I was very happy to get the opportunity for extending the successful trajectory
of the EA European Academy towards a sustainable future.
Petra Ahrweiler
Our institute can look back at an impressive track record of successful
research work, at many high-impact contributions to policy advice, and at a
sustainable history of institutional development.
In March 1996 and as a part of the Bonn-Berlin compensation scheme,
the EA European Academy was founded by its shareholders, the German
Federal State Rhineland-Palatinate and the German Aerospace Center DLR,
to find answers and contribute to the many research fields of Technology
Assessment (TA). Founding director was Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Carl Friedrich
Gethmann, who successfully ran the institute “Europäische Akademie zur
Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad
Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH” until his retirement in 2012. There were many
highlights during that time: among them, for example, the coordination of
the first EU project at EA European Academy about methods and effects
of TA in Europe, and the establishment of the executive education course
“Medical Ethics” in co-operation with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
and “FernUniversität Hagen – University of Hagen” in Germany.
For successfully acquiring external funding, the EA European Academy
has to connect scientific excellence and high international reputation with
institutional competitive advantages by core competences and “unique
selling points”: our central competitive advantage is our specific research
infrastructure, the EA Lab, which permits unique methodological access to
the thematic research area (you will find – as always – an update on the lab
development on page 6 of this EA Report issue). The combination of these
three characteristics distinguishes today’s EA European Academy from other
institutes in the research area of Technology and Innovation Assessment:
empirical research; modelling and simulation; and participatory approaches
to citizen science.
My vision for EA’s future is to connect two objectives: delivering internationally
recognised excellent scientific research and having a high impact on policy
and society. I hope the EA European Academy can count on your continued
support for this mission!
Petra Ahrweiler, EA Director and CEO
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2016 Annual EA Conference: Innovating the Gutenberg Galaxis. The Role of
Peer Review and Open Access in University Knowledge Dissemination and
Evaluation (26–27 January)...
Gold Road – the future paths of scientific publishing” featuring scientists and
publishers.
> Further information on 20 years EA European Academy in Mainz
The two-days’ Annual EA Conference at the Academy of Sciences and
Literature, Mainz, in conjunction with the Johannes Gutenberg University
(JGU) Mainz, investigated the role of peer review and open access in university
knowledge dissemination and evaluation. The event was co-sponsored by the
two COST Actions “New Frontiers of Peer Review” (PEERE), and “Analyzing
the Dynamics of Information and Knowledge Landscapes” (KNOWeSCAPE).
Read Andrea Scharnhorst´s review (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences, The Netherlands, Chair of COST Action KNOWeSCAPE and Member
of EA Scientific Advisory Board): REVIEW
> Further information on the COST Action PEERE
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‘Ahrweiler Freedom Weeks’:
Lecture about “Knowledge and Power” (3 March)
The EA European Academy, situated in the Ahr Valley in the Federal State
of Rhineland-Palatinate, celebrated its 20th anniversary, among others, on
3 March with the opening event of “Ahrweiler Freiheitswochen” (Ahrweiler
Freedom Weeks). Hosted by the EA Sponsors´ Club, the academy welcomed
EA founding director Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Carl Friedrich Gethmann who delivered
a lecture on “Knowledge and Power. Contemplations on Science Ethics”.
> Further information on the COST Action KNOWeSCAPE
> Further information on the EA lecture
...and Celebration of Festivities “20 Years EA” (26 January)
and
> on the EA Sponsors’ Club
Contact:
> Margret Heyen
Emphasizing the importance of the EA European
Academy: Dr. Gerd Gruppe and Minister Vera Reiß
(right-hand side), representatives of the two EA
shareholders (Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate and German Aerospace Center/DLR)
On the evening of 26 January, the EA
European Academy celebrated its
th
20 anniversary together with more than 100 guests from politics, science,
and the public. One of the highlights was a panel discussion on “Green or
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“200 Years County of Ahrweiler”:
Showcase Event (22 May)
The EA European Academy presented its work
to citizens of Ahrweiler County.
> Further information (in German)
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NTA and EA European Academy: Mastering ‘Grand Challenges’ – What can
be the Contribution of Technology Assessment? (16–18 November)
The 7th German-speaking NTA conference will
take place at Universitätsclub Bonn and is
organized by the Network Technology
Assessment (NTA) and EA European Academy.
Additionally, the academy will celebrate its
closing event on “20 Years EA” on Wednesday
evening, 16 November 2016.
> Further information (registration, programme)
#NTA7GC
openta.net
Contact:
> Stephan Lingner
EA NEWS
EA Lab Finished 2nd Phase of Construction and is Ready-to-use
The last months of the year 2015 saw a major remodelling of both the frontend and the back-end of the EA Lab. With the installation of an air conditioning
system, heat emitted by all the electronic devices can now be transported out
of the EA Lab front end, making it possible to hold longer meetings. Equally
important was the modification of the lighting installations and the complete
replacement of the ceiling. The front end is now fitted with a state-of-theart LED lighting system and an acoustically effective ceiling. Furthermore, a
projector and loud speakers were installed.
Improving the back end, a new server system was acquired in early 2016,
allowing powerful data storage and supplying computation facility for all EA
research projects. The server system will hold all empirical and simulation
data and provide the computational environment required for analysing and
visualising this data. Furthermore, it will enhance EA’s computational power
for faster simulation experiments.
> Further information on the EA Lab
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> Read more about further EA Events in 2015/2016 on page 14.
Contact:
> Benjamin Schrempf
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EA Lab:
the new front-end
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EA Team Members 2015/2016
Within 2015/2016, the EA European Academy welcomed four new team
members:
Gabriele Fohr and Markus Voge are team members in the EA
energy projects EnAHRgie and ZIE.
Gabriele Fohr analyses innovation networks on
the basis of surveys, interviews, and open data
about the actors and relations in context of
new energy technologies, while Markus Voge
develops methods and ways for the visualization of energy
system aspects and their integration into the EA Lab.
Tanja Nietgen supports the EnAHRgie team by analyzing and
supporting the social networks of relevant local associations
in the district of Ahrweiler.
Martin Deschauer contributes to the EIS
project by collecting the empirical data that are necessary
to set up the simulation.
> Further information on the new EA team members
> Further information on the EA research projects EnAHRgie, ZIE and EIS
EA Visiting Scientists 2015/2016
Since 2015 the EA European Academy has welcomed three Visiting Scientists:
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Banse, Senior Consultant at ITAS/Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT) and President of the “LeibnizSozietät”, Berlin, contributed to the preparation of an
academy project on “Industry 4.0” and on related prospects
for the countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Erasmus student Marco Puopolo, a graduate from the
University of Perugia (Italy) with a Bachelor’s degree in Law, worked at EA
European Academy (January–June 2016) as an EA Visiting
Scientist. Interested in the effects of Technology and Innovation
on the European legal system and how the European Union
may design regulations for future challenges, he studied the
new EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Go Yoshizawa, Ph.D., EA Visiting Scientist
from September to December 2015, is
Associate Professor at Osaka University,
Japan and Senior Researcher at Policy
Alternatives Research Institute (PARI), University of
Tokyo. Go participated in the academy’s research on
responsible research and innovation (RRI), see also this
issue´s research focus on page 13.
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> Further information on the EA Programme for Visiting Scientists
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EA RESEARCH
NEW EA PROJECTS
EIS: Enabling Innovation by Simulation
(Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research/BMBF)
The EIS project aims at simulating the effects of (combined) interventions
for optimising the innovation capacity of public research organisations in
Germany, each consisting of multiple more or less tightly coupled individual
research institutes. EIS started in October 2015, and the EA European Academy
hosted the kick-of meeting, in which representatives of the project partner
‘Görgen&Köller Management Consulting’ and of the ‘Project Management
Agency DLR’ met to discuss the scope and goals of the project as well as
methodological questions. During the initial phase, first versions of the EIS
assistant – a web-based data management and analysis tool – were developed.
Currently, the EIS assistant helps collecting empirical data on the research
and innovation landscape with focus on non-university research institutes.
Later in the project, the EIS assistant will also provide the environment for
data analysis and visualisation. Furthermore, it will be used in EIS workshops,
still to be developed. Ongoing activities are the collection of vast amounts
of data, the review of the relevant literature, and the development of more
detailed modelling ideas.
CECAN: Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus
(Funding: Economic and Social Research Council/ESRC)
Imagine you’re responsible for a policy that affects every household in the
UK, but the goal-posts keep changing, and you’re unsure whether the policy
is still working. Contributing to the design of public policy that can respond
effectively to the UK’s societal problems is challenging. Policies are difficult
to design and it can be near impossible to assess their success.
The “Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across
the Nexus”, a £3m research centre, hosted by the
University of Surrey, brings together a unique
coalition of experts to address some of the greatest
issues in policymaking and evaluation. CECAN will pioneer, test and promote
innovative evaluation approaches and methods across nexus problem
domains, where food, energy, water and environmental issues intersect.
CECAN´s co-funders, ESRC, NERC, DEFRA, DECC, FSA and the Environment
Agency, bring specific ‘rea-life’ societal challenges for CECAN to address.
The EA European Academy is involved as a co-investigator.
> Further information on CECAN
Contact:
> Petra Ahrweiler
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> Further information on EIS
Contact:
> Petra Ahrweiler
> Michel Schilperoord
> Benjamin Schrempf
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CURRENT EA PROJECTS
ZIE: Long-Term Viable Energy Innovations. Analyses of Multi-Level Design
Processes for Future Energy Systems as Basis for Long-Term Viable
Innovations in the Energy Area
(Funding: German Aerospace Center/DLR)
In this EA project researchers investigate how viable innovations in the energy
area can be fostered effectively considering the relevant multiple levels and
multiple aspects involved. For this purpose, the already-established workflow
for the analysis of innovation dynamics in innovation networks is applied
and extended by further analytical approaches relevant to the energy area.
Additionally, an infrastructure is developed and built up which can be used
for presenting and discussing various complex circumstances with different
target groups. The first steps in the project concentrated on designing the
hardware set-up for the decision theatre, which is now extending the EA
Lab (see also page 6 of this EA Report). Furthermore, supporting software is
currently developed. The EA Lab is used to support collaboration on model
definitions and on discussing assumptions and results of system analyses with
scientists, stakeholders, and decisionmakers. Further steps concentrated on
sharpening the specific scope of analysis by setting up a respective project
group. Besides the investigation of general knowledge-based innovation
processes in the area, the mutual influences of developments in the transport
and the stationary energy sector are discussed as main targets of analyses.
> Further information on ZIE
Contact:
> Bert Droste-Franke
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EnAHRgie: Conception of Sustainable Land Use and Energy Supply at the
Municipal Level. Implementation in the Model Region Ahrweiler
(Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research/BMBF)
The EnAHRgie project is designed to involve local and regional stakeholders
in the elaboration and application of a concept of sustainable land use with
focus on energy supply. The approach uses the motivation of local actors and
aims at a robust realisation balanced over various relevant levels.
“Our method will launch a process of cooperation between scientists,
i.e. experts from the fields of sustainable land
management, distributed energy systems,
governance and participation, and practitioners from
administration, regional politics and regional energy
suppliers,” says EnAHRgie project coordinator André Schaffrin.
As first steps in the main phase of the project, the status quo of the situation
in the district of Ahrweiler is analysed. Besides collecting general relevant
data for the region, estimating the grid situation and assessing potentials
for building up energy system components, further data are gathered by indepth interviews, focus groups and different surveys addressing a number of
local stakeholders. This analysis rests on a systematic conceptualization of
indicators of local energy infrastructures and social processes in the realm of
the local energy transition. It is further supported by an elaborated concept of
communication and stakeholders’ participation within the project.
> Further information on EnAHRgie
Contact:
> André Schaffrin
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KNOWeSCAPE: Analyzing the Dynamics of Information and Knowledge
Landscapes
(Funding: European Union; COST Action)
There is no escape from the expansion of information, so that structuring and
locating meaningful knowledge becomes ever more difficult. KNOWeSCAPE
tackles this urgent problem using the unique networking and capacity-building
features provided by the COST framework. For the first time, a platform will
be created where information professionals, sociologists, physicists, digital
humanities scholars and computer scientists collaborate on problems of
data mining and data curation in collections. The main objective is advancing
the analysis of large knowledge spaces and systems that organize and order
them. KnowEscape aims to create interactive knowledge maps. Their end
users could be scientists working between disciplines and seeking mutual
understanding; science policy makers designing funding frameworks;
cultural heritage institutions aiming at better access to their collections; and
students seeking a first orientation in academia.
co-financed the 2016 Annual EA Conference
on peer review and open access, Mainz,
26–27 January, and the EA-organised 2015 Summer School at the SKIN 4
workshop in Naples, Italy, 19–22 May (see also pages 5 and 15 of this EA
Report). Furthermore, the 2015 Annual EA Conference on prediction, planning
and scenarios, Bonn, 11–12 May, was co-funded by this COST Action.
PEERE: New Frontiers of Peer Review (COST Action)
(Funding: European Union; COST Action)
Peer review is a cornerstone of science, whose quality and efficiency depends on
a complex, large-scale collaboration process, which is sensitive to motivations,
incentives and institutional contexts. Recent proofs of the failures of peer
review, due to judgment bias and parochialism and cases of misconduct, have
contributed to calls for a reconsideration of the rigour and quality of the process.
This Action aims to improve efficiency, transparency and accountability of peer
review through a trans-disciplinary, cross-sectorial collaboration. Not only can
a better peer review system improve the self-regulation processes of science to
benefit all science stakeholders, it can also increase the social recognition and
credibility of science in Europe.
co-financed the 2016 Annual EA Conference and the EAorganised 2015 Summer School SKIN 4.
> Further information on the 2016 Annual EA Conference and
> the 2015 EA Summer School
> Further information on PEERE
Contact:
> Petra Ahrweiler
> Further information on the 2016 Annual EA Conference
> the 2015 Annual EA Conference
and > the 2015 EA Summer School
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> Further information on KNOWeSCAPE
Contact:
> Petra Ahrweiler
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INOGOV: Innovations in Climate Governance. Sources, Patterns and Effects
(Funding: European Union; COST Action)
This FP7 ISCH COST Action IS1309 helps building the capacity for innovating
in climate governance
by: identifying effective
ways of stimulating
and diffusing policy and
governance innovations;
building
a
stronger
evaluation capacity to
assess such innovations;
and spreading usable
knowledge in innovative
ways such as via open
access course materials.
“RRI and Nano-scale Technologies” in an upcoming issue
of the journal. The special section is coordinated by guest
editors Stephan Lingner (EA European Academy) and
John Weckert (Ch. Sturt University, Australia).
Read more on EA’s workpackages in ProGReSS:
> “Innovation Systems”
> “Case studies”
> Further information on ProGReSS
> Further information on INOGOV
Contact:
> André Schaffrin
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EA PROJECTS COMPLETED IN 2015/2016
Contact:
> Stephan Lingner
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GREAT: Governance for Responsible Innovation
(Funding: European Union; FP7, Collaborative Project/STREP, 2/2013–
1/2016)
ProGReSS: PROmoting Global Responsible research & Social and Scientific
innovation
(Funding: European Union; FP7, Coordination and Support Action, 2/2013–
1/2016)
aimed to promote a European approach to Responsible
Research and Innovation (RRI) through a global
network (see also our research focus on page 13 of this EA Report).
In the framework of a concluding dissemination task, five scientific papers
of the ProGReSS consortium had been submitted to the international journal
NanoEthics. Accepted papers will be organized within a special section on
The GREAT project developed an empirically based and theoretically sound
model of the role of responsible research and innovation governance. The
project explored the dynamics of participation in research and innovation,
and investigated the characteristics of responsible practices: (a) the nature of
new partnerships among various stakeholders, researchers and policymakers
that are developing within innovation networks and (b) the influence that
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these developments have on knowledge production and policy.
READ MORE on:
> EA’s workpackage “Applied Analysis – Development of case studies” and on
> the resulting Case Study Report
> Further information on GREAT
Contact:
> Petra Ahrweiler
neurology and neuropsychology as well as of experts from medical ethics
and law.
In Summer 2015 the project members prepared a joint high-level paper about
the methodological issues in neuro-modulation trials, which was submitted
and accepted for publication in the international journal “Brain Stimulation”.
The project’s concluding symposium on “Scientific and Ethical Issues in DBS
for Psychiatric Disorders Study Design – from Beta-Testing to Rollout” was
opened to the public and took place in Frankfurt/Main, 12–13 December 2015
(see also page 14 of this EA Report).
> Further information on the DBS symposium
> Further information on DBS II
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Contact:
DBS II: Deep Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders. Measuring
Outcomes and Institutionalizing Ethical Standards II
(Funding: Volkswagen Foundation, 1/2014–12/2015)
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is a complex neurosurgical technique for
the treatment of otherwise treatment-resistant movement and affective
disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s disease or depression) by implanting electrodes
into the brain that allow for the stimulation of specific nucleus. The treatment
has been approved for clinical settings since the mid-1990s.
However, there is still a considerable mismatch between different disciplinary
outcome parameters used to assess the individual success of DBS, e.g.
questioning: “when is a ‘failure’ a failure?”. Furthermore, the development
and application of DBS raises moral and regulatory issues that need to be
discussed interdisciplinarily.
Therefore, the DBS project at EA European Academy focused on problems
with testing and evaluating the technique in clinical trials that arose so far.
The interdisciplinary project group was composed of leading international
experts from the relevant clinical disciplines neurosurgery, psychiatry,
> Stephan Lingner
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IPSE: Innovation Policy Simulation for the Smart Economy (associated)
(Funding: PRTLI Cycle 5, co-funded under European Regional Development
Fund, 3/2011–2/2016)
“Innovation Policy Simulation for the Smart Economy” – that is the long
name of the research project with the short acronym IPSE, which has been
associated with the EA European Academy by its coordinator and Principal
Investigator Petra Ahrweiler, and was funded by Irish Government.
IPSE looked at scenarios for fostering innovation in Ireland. The project ran
during the time of the Irish bailout: from 2011 until the end of 2013 the EU
and the IMF provided financial assistance to Ireland. Ireland had to consent
to reduced spending of the public sector with heavy measures of austerity.
However, austerity policy was only one side of the coin. The other clearly was
innovation policy, which was supposed to help economic recovery, ensure
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economic growth, create new jobs, and make Ireland again both attractive
and competitive for the international market environment.
1996 while still adjusting its methodologies according to changing societal
needs in professional advice. Especially the recent incorporation of modern
agent-based innovation research improved the EA’s methodologies further.
IPSE on YouTube (video)
> Further information on IPSE
Further material on the meaning of RRI (video)
Contact:
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> Petra Ahrweiler
Completed RRI-related EA Projects
In the above mentioned broader comprehension of RRI, the EA European
Academy can look back on nearly 20 years of RRI-related research, which has
so far been mostly published in its Springer book series. The corresponding
reports of around 30 completed projects cover a broad thematic spectrum
ranging from innovations in technological and environmental contexts to
those in health and life sciences as well as dealing with methodological
aspects of interdisciplinary research.
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EA RESEARCH FOCUS: RESPONSIBLE
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (RRI)
RRI – an Issue for EA Studies?
The societal value of innovation cannot be taken for granted neither from
the perspective of the supply side nor from the demand side. Nevertheless,
actors, stakeholders and even not directly concerned taxpayers should have
a common interest in those innovation processes and frameworks, which
could be outlined as “responsible”. Therefore, the implicit pending goal of
responsible research and innovation became an explicit key notion and claim
of recent innovation policies and research funding in Europe. However, the
question arises whether responsibility of research and innovation was not
an issue of professional interdisciplinary deliberation and advisory policy
support before. Consider that mature concepts like technology assessment
have already established effective procedures for investigations into the
societal prospects and implications of new and emerging technologies. These
frameworks already offer the basis and means for specifying the otherwise
vague concept of responsibility. Among them, the EA European Academy
developed corresponding assessment procedures from its very beginning in
> Have a look at our completed projects and
> at our publications which are documented on our EA website.
> Additional material on first lessons learned from RRI projects in Europe may be
obtained via the Berlin conference site on RRI and
> via “RRI Governance. Lessons from the FP7 Project GREAT”.
Contact:
> Petra Ahrweiler
> Benjamin Schrempf
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“Research can be more responsible with the right partner”
FURTHER EA EVENTS
By Petra Ahrweiler, originally published in EuroScientist, January 2016
Drivers and impacts of RRI in EU-funded projects
identified
In January 2016, the Go4 Conference in Brussels
discussed the findings of several research projects
focused on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). RRI is one of the
underlying cross-cutting issues of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
defined by the European Commission. The idea is to better align both the
research and innovation process and its outcomes with the values, needs,
and expectations of society. During the conference, the GREAT project
revealed the results of its investigation of the factors influencing the uptake
of responsible research aspects in EU-funded research and innovation using
an agent-based simulation approach. Results concerning the involvement
of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are not as expected. READ THE FULL
ARTICLE ON EUROSCIENTIST
UPCOMING
3rd Energy and Society Conference
(12–14 September 2016, Leipzig)
> Further information (registration etc.)
Contact:
> André Schaffrin
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PAST
Symposium on Deep Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders
(12–13 December 2015, Frankfurt)
Contact:
> Petra Ahrweiler
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SELECTED
PRESENTATIONS
Inter- and Trans-disciplinarity Author-meets-Critics Workshop
(10–11 December 2015, Münster)
> Further information on the study
> Further information on the workshop programme (in German)
PETRA AHRWEILER
“Models of STI”
• ‘Modeling Science, Technology & Innovation’-Conference, Washington D.C./
USA, 17 May 2016
Contact:
> Stephan Lingner
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2015 SKIN 4 Workshop and Summer School:
Simulating Knowledge Dynamics – Training and Work in Progress
(19–22 May, Naples, Italy)
“ Ex-ante evaluation of research and innovation policies using empirical and
artificial BigData”
• Expert workshop “Evaluating R&I impacts on sustainable development:
what role for Big Data?”, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission,
Brussels, Belgium, 18 April 2016
“ Anwendungsfall Europäische Akademie”
• Concluding conference of the INDIKAT project, Koblenz, 3 December 2015
> Further information
Contact:
“ Governance von Forschungs- und Innovationsnetzwerken”
• Lecture series “Perspektiven der Wissenschaftsforschung”, Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, 30 November 2015
> Petra Ahrweiler
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“ IPSE paper session”
• 40th Annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S),
Denver/USA, 12 November 2015
2015 Annual EA Conference:
Planning, Prediction, Scenarios – Using Simulations and Maps
(11–12 May, Bonn)
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“ Simulating research and innovation networks”
• Conference “Data to knowledge”, Mons, Belgium, 9 October 2015
“ The past, present and future of scientific information”
• Panel session Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium, 7–9 October 2015
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“Applications in policy modelling”
• Special session at ESSA 2015, Groningen, The Netherlands, 15–16
September 2015
“ The EA European Academy”
• Lecture at the Spanish research organisation LEITAT, Barcelona, Spain, 18
August 2015
“ The SKIN model”
• ISSI-Workshop “Forecasting science? Models of science dynamics for
innovation policy”. 15th International Conference on Scientometrics and
Informetrics ISSI 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, 29 June 2015
BERT DROSTE-FRANKE
“Challenges for the analysis of long-term viable energy systems”
• Colloquium series “Current debates in sociology”, Department for
Technology Studies, TU Dortmund, 1 February 2016
“Better interpreting studies and improving scientific policy advice for
decisions on energy system investments”
• ”Accelerating the transition to equitable post fossil-carbon societies”,
Global Cleaner Production & Sustainable Consumption Conference 2015,
Barcelona, Sitges, Spain, 3 November 2015
“ Simulating knowledge dynamics – training and work in progress”
• SKIN Summer School, Naples, Italy, 19–22 May 2015
“The EA Department ‘Energy’”
• Framework programme of BRAGFOST (Brazil-German Symposium of
Frontiers of Science and Technology), Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation,
EA European Academy, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, 10 September 2015
“ Innovation policy simulation for the smart economy – scenarios for fostering
innovation in Ireland”
• 2015 EA Annual Conference “Planning, Prediction, Scenarios. Using
Simulation and Maps”, Bonn, 11 May 2015 (together with Michel Schilperoord)
“Integration of renewable electricity generation – potential contributions of
heat supply systems”
• Congress of Energieagentur Rheinland-Pfalz, Atrium Hotel Mainz, 16 July
2015
“ Innovationsnetzwerke und deren Simulation mit agentenbasierten
Modellen”
• Fraunhofer-Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen
INT, Euskirchen, 29 April 2015
“Energy systems and their analysis”
• EA workshop “Energy transitions and its future” with secondary school
Calvarienberg/Ahrweiler, EA European Academy, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler,
24 February 2015
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“Framework conditions and roles of actors in the implementation of various
options for balancing energy supply and demand”
• Experts workshop “To the role of efficiency and framework conditions for
the application of options for energy balancing options”, BMBF-funded
project “Akzente”, IZES, Ka Eins Tagungszentrum, Frankfurt, 3 February
2015
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STEPHAN LINGNER
“Tools for RRI”
• Podium statement at Go4 Joint Final Conference “Responsible research
and innovation in Europe and across the world”, European Economic and
Social Committee, Brussels, 14–15 January 2016
“Natural succession or designing nature? The case for urban climate change
adaptation and mitigation”
• European Conference on “Nature-based solutions to climate change in
urban areas and their rural surroundings”, Bonn, 17 November 2015
BENJAMIN SCHREMPF
“Enabling innovation by simulation”
• Presentation
at roundtable “New paths for innovations in the public
sector”, University of Speyer, 25 February 2016
“Modelling general purpose technologies with SKIN”
• Presentation
at 2nd KIT/BETA project workshop, Université de Strasbourg,
France, 20 November 2015
“Modelling general purpose technologies with SKIN”
• Presentation
at 1st EAEPE-RA[X workshop, Essen, 2–3 November 2015
“Industry 4.0 – the case for innovation and technology assessment”
• Leonardo Campus, Münster University, 6 November 2015
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GO YOSHIZAWA
“A new mode of nuclear technology governance in the post-Fukushima age”
• 2nd workshop of the BSTS network on nuclear societies and technology
studies in Japan and Belgium, KU Leuven, Belgium, 13–14 October 2015
ANDRÉ SCHAFFRIN
“Energy epistemics as drivers of local energy transition”
• 14th Annual STS Conference Graz 2015 – Critical Issues in Science,
Technology and Society Studies, Graz, Austria, 11 May 2015
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MICHEL SCHILPEROORD
“Innovation policy simulation for the smart economy – scenarios for fostering
innovation in Ireland”
• 2015 EA Annual Conference “Planning, Prediction, Scenarios. Using
Simulation and Maps”, Bonn, 11 May 2015 (together with Petra Ahrweiler)
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SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
PETRA AHRWEILER
• Ahrweiler, P., Gilbert, N. and A. Pyka (eds., 2016): Joining Complexity Science
and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy. Agent-based Modelling using the SKIN
Platform, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Ahrweiler, P., Gilbert, N. and A. Pyka (2016): “Joining complexity science and
social simulation for innovation policy”, in: Ahrweiler, P., Gilbert, N. and A.
Pyka (eds.): Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy.
Agent-based Modelling using the SKIN Platform, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, pp ix–xix
• Ahrweiler, P., Pyka, A. and N. Gilbert (2016): “Policy modelling of large-scale
social systems: lessons from the SKIN model of innovation”, in: Ahrweiler, P.,
Gilbert, N. and A. Pyka (eds.): Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation
for Innovation Policy. Agent-based Modelling using the SKIN Platform, Cambridge:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 156–180
• Ahrweiler, P. (2015): “‘RRI-Governance zwischen linearer Interventionslogik
und Sozialinnovation.` Interview mit Petra Ahrweiler”, in: Bogner, A., Decker,
M. and M. Sotoudeh (eds.): Responsible Innovation. Neue Impulse für die
Technikfolgenabschätzung, Gesellschaft – Technik – Umwelt, Neue Folge Bd. 18,
Baden-Baden: Nomos, edition sigma, pp 131–136
• Ahrweiler, P., Schilperoord, M., Pyka, A. and N. Gilbert (2015): “Modelling
research policy – ex-ante evaluation of complex policy instruments”, in: Journal
of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), 18 (4) 5
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BERT DROSTE-FRANKE
• Doetsch, C., Droste-Franke, B., Mulder, G., Scholz, Y., and M. Perrin (eds.,
2015): Electric Energy Storage – Future Energy Storage Demand, final report to
International Energy Agency (IEA), ECES26, Paris. Authors contributions therein:
> Cebulla F., Y. Scholz, B. Droste-Franke: “Survey of different methods to
estimate the demand of energy storage”
> Droste-Franke, B.: “Assessment and comparison of technical and economical
general conditions”
> Droste-Franke, B.: “Overview of estimations on future energy storage demand”
> Droste-Franke, B., and C. Doetsch: “Overview of the economic framework for
energy storage”
> Droste-Franke, B., and P. Wrobel: “Overview about technical key figures of
different countries”
> Scholz, Y., Gils, H. C. and B. Droste-Franke: “Alternative technologies for grid
balancing”
• Droste-Franke,
B.
(2015):
“Energiespeicher
und
alternative
Energieausgleichsoptionen aus diversen systemischen Perspektiven”, in:
Technikfolgenabschätzung, Theorie und Praxis (TATuP), 3/15, Karlsruhe: ITAS/
KIT, pp 40–52
• Droste-Franke, B. (2015): “Improving scientific policy advice with respect to
responsible innovation of energy systems”, in: Scherz, C. et al. (eds.): The Next
Horizon of Technology Assessment, Proceedings of PACITA Berlin Conference, 25–
27 February 2015, Prague: Technology Centre ASCR, pp 173–178
• Droste-Franke, B. (2015): “Using the systems web approach to gain improved
transparency and quality in complex system studies as basis for better-informed
risk governance – lessons learned from energy system analyses”, Special
Issue “Risk Governance and Risk Communication”, in: International Journal of
Performability Engineering (IJPE), 11 (6), Totem Publisher, pp 577–587
• Droste-Franke, B. (2015): “Better interpreting studies and improving scientific
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policy advice for decisions on energy system investments”, in: Proceedings of
Global Cleaner Production & Sustainable Consumption Conference (GCPC) 2015
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MARGRET ENGELHARD
• Engelhard, M. (ed., 2015): Synthetic Biology Analysed. Tools for Discussion and
Evaluation, EA Series “Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment”, Vol. 44,
Berlin: Springer Publishers
ANDRE SCHAFFRIN
• Schaffrin, A., Sewerin, S. and S. Seubert (2015): “Toward a comparative measure
of climate policy output”, in: The Policy Studies Journal 43 (2), Wiley Online Library,
pp 257–282 (Best Paper Prize Award)
• J ournal Impact Factor: 1.765, ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2015: 10/47 (Public Administration);
26/163 (Political Science)
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KRISTIN HAGEN
• Hagen, K., Engelhard, M. and G. Toepfer (eds., 2015): Ambivalences of Creating
Life. Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology, EA Series “Ethics
of Science and Technology Assessment”, Vol. 45, Berlin: Springer Publishers
MICHEL SCHILPEROORD
• Michel Schilperoord (2016): “Start-ups when and where? Using the SKIN
platform for modelling the birth of new firms”, in: Ahrweiler, P., Gilbert, N. and
A. Pyka (eds.): Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation
Policy. Agent-based Modelling using the SKIN Platform, Cambridge: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, pp 326–348
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GEORG KAMP
• Kamp, G. (ed., 2016): Langfristiges Planen. Zur Bedeutung sozialer und kognitiver
Ressourcen für nachhaltiges Handeln, EA Series “Ethics of Science and
Technology Assessment”, Vol. 41, Berlin: Springer Publishers
BENJAMIN SCHREMPF
• Schrempf, Benjamin (2016): “European and national innovation agendas”, in:
Ahrweiler, P., Gilbert, N. and A. Pyka (eds.): Joining Complexity Science and Social
Simulation for Innovation Policy. Agent-based Modelling using the SKIN Platform,
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 2–47
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STEPHAN LINGNER
• Lingner, S. (2015) “Exploring ‘responsibility’ in research and innovation. The
perspective from technology assessment”, in: Bowman, D. M. et al. (eds.):
Practices of Innovation and Responsibility: Insights from Methods, Governance and
Action? Studies of New and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 6, AKA Berlin: IOS Press,
pp 99–110
• Schroeder, D., Dalton-Brown, S., Schrempf, B. and D. Kaplan (2016):
“Responsible, inclusive innovation and the nano-divide”, in: NanoEthics. Studies
of New and Emerging Technologies, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp 1–12
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• Lingner, S. (2015): “Interdisciplinary integration in technology assessment. A
report from practice”, in: Scherz, C. et al. (eds.): The Next Horizon of Technology
Assessment, Proceedings of PACITA Berlin Conference, 25–27 February 2015,
Prague: Technology Centre ASCR, pp 359–364
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