Technology assessment: Some questions from a developing country perspective

Goonatilake, Susantha

doi:10.1016/0040-1625(94)90063-9

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“…and provide a list of criteria for selecting appropriate technologies for developing countries. In a similar study Susantha Goonatilake [ 77 ] stresses that effective TA in developing should recognize the multiplicity in the context of a developing country, such as different potential stakeholders, different cultural definitions of ethics, different visions of gender equality, different attitude to the environment, and so on. Denis Goulet [78] emphasizes the conclusion that developing countries need to adopt participatory technology assessment approach and make decisions bases on three rationalities: technological rationality, political rationality, and ethical rationality.…”

Section: Ta For Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Review of Methods and Tools Applied in Technology Assessment Literature

Tran

2007

PICMET '07 - 2007 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering &Amp; Technology

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Technology Assessment is an emerging field of management study for the past four decades. An increasing number of researches have been carried out over the years that contributes to the development of TA literature. There have been some journal articles summarizing the history and growth of the field during its evolution. However there has been no effort made to present an overview of the methodologies and tools that have been used in the TA research literature. This paper is the first attempt to fill that need. A thorough review of the TA articles published in leading journals in the MOT field is conducted to identify the methodologies or research tools in the studies. The paper starts with a brief overview of the development of the TA field over its history. This section provides the readers with knowledge of the movements in the field. A classification of the approaches, methods and tools that are available for TA studies is then introduced. The main content of the paper presents the works done in TA literature that involve certain research methodologies. A separate section is devoted to the status of TA relating developing countries follows, which highlights the interest of the author of his future research direction. It is hoped that the review will reveal opportunities for his research in devising a new TA model that is dedicated to the developing world. In general the paper's main objective is to provide an overview of available TA methodologies that can be applied or further developed by other researchers.

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Section: Ta For Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Review of Methods and Tools Applied in Technology Assessment Literature

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2007

PICMET '07 - 2007 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering &Amp; Technology

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“…From TA to CTA With the realization that developments in e.g. IT, nuclear energy and biotechnology carried associated risks and undesired and unintended side effects, TA emerged in the post 1960's (Goonatilake 1994, Grunwald 2015), and was institutionalized in the 1980's and 1990's (Russell et al 2010). TA emerged out of an imperative to control technology in society (Rip, Misa & Schot, 1995).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Lack of TA focus in developing countries TA emerged out of a narrow "Euro America" space (Goonatilake 1994), and had a cultural bias that seldom took the needs of non-Western nations into consideration (Palm & Hansson 2006). Though e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Bridging Actors in Sustainable Innovation for Developing Countries? Partnerships, Social Construction of Technology and Solid Waste Management in Vietnam and Uganda

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