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Constructing Productive Engagement: Pre-engagement Tools for Emerging Technologies

This commentary builds on Haico te Kulve and Arie Rip's (2011) notion of "engagement agents," individuals that must be able to move between multiple dimensions, or "levels" of research, innovation, and policy processes. The commentary compares and contrasts the role of the engagement agent within the Constructive Technology Assessment and integration approaches, and suggests that on-site integr...

An Interventionist Perspective on Controversy Studies, or Why Not Always to Take Controversies at Face Value

Controversies have been a topic in science studies for some time now. The interest in controversies has fluctuated over time, and the death of controversy studies was announced already in 1988 by Arie Rip; like so many other fields in the social sciences, science studies sometimes appears to hover restlessly from one fashion to the next. In this article I would like to explore why and how Rip's...

Numerical modelling of induced rip currents by discontinuous submerged breakwaters

Submerged breakwaters are one of the shore protective structures. Any discontinuity in these breakwaters causes changes on current parameters including speed and water surface profile. In this paper, discontinuous submerged breakwaters were modelled to investigate the changes in the wave and flow pattern.To investigate the phenomenon, three models including a shore with constant slope, a shore ...

Dual dynamics of promises, and waiting games around emerging nanotechnologies

Newly emerging science and technologies (NEST) are shaped by dynamics of promises. There is a paradoxical effect: diffuse and open-ended promises are forceful in policy discourse, but may hinder the realisation of these promises. Innovation actors are reluctant to invest in concrete developments because the promises are open-ended, and eventual demand is not articulated. This is a structural is...