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The Technology Utility Assessment

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1977
Utility assessment includes the entire process of identifying, measuring, and combining attributes to create an explicit value structure that can form a basis for evaluations and decisions. The utility assessment process is reviewed, and selected issues and problems are discussed.
Edgar M. Johnson, George P. Huber
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Technology Assessment as Learning

Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1996
This article addresses the question of how policymakers could deliberately influence processes of technology development. Using the development of wind turbines in Denmark as an example, the article describes the frames of meaning guiding the actions of those involved in the three subprocesses of policymaking, the generation of new technologies, and ...
van de Graaf, H., Grin, J.
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Technology assessment and ethics

Poiesis & Praxis: International Journal of Technology Assessment and Ethics of Science, 2002
Technology assessment (TA) is – for several reasons – not detachable from ethical questions. The development of institutions and concepts for TA, especially in the USA and Western Europe, has been marked by an increasing tendency to focus evaluative and normative questions. In the following paper, we point out, in as far as the common notions of TA are
Skorupinski, Barbara, Ott, Konrad
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Technoscience and technology assessment

Poiesis & Praxis, 2010
The term technoscience emphasises the convergence of the scientific and the technological realms within a new paradigm of technoscience. After the term was initially coined by the Belgian philosopher Gilbert Hottois in the late 1970s (cp. Hottois 1984), it was re-introduced by Bruno Latour (1987) and Donna Haraway (e.g., 1997), who have elaborated on ...
Karen Kastenhofer, Doris Allhutter
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