Why did TA take root in Germany? | Examples | Armin Grunwald | Future Up Close | CforRI

Issues such as ethics and sustainability usually require more than awareness and public interest to shift gear into action. Armin shares three examples that helped technology assessment (TA) take firm root in Germany including three examples: 1) nuclear waste management, 2) Stuttgart 21 and 3) biotechnology.

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Armin Grunwald is a Full Professor of Philosophy at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. There, he is also the Director of KIT's Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at KIT (ITAS). Since 2002, Armin has been serving as the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag.

Armin's professional background includes technology assessment, ethics of philosophy, theory of sustainable development, and the epistemology of inter- and transdisciplinary research.

In his professional work, Armin is member of several advisory commissions and committees in various fields of the technological advance.

In his research work, he is developing a theory of technology assessment in conjunction with applications in the fields of the transformation of the energy system, the ongoing digitalization and new and emerging technologies such as synthetic biology and human enhancement.

Armin is an author and editor of multiple professional and research publications, among them “Technology Assessment in Practice and Theory” (Routledge 2019) and “The Hermeneutic Side of Responsible Research and Innovation” (Wiley 2016).

Armin's professional webpage is:

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In Episode 2 of Future Up Close we have Professor Dr. Armin Grunwald from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) who will take us on a journey from Technology Assessment to Responsible Innovation. We hope you enjoy this conversation and hope to see you again soon.
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Nature, Vol. 403, 27 January 2000, page 349
“Future Directions of the National Nanotechnology Initiative - NNI 2.0”, U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, 2017, presentation slide 8.

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