Beyond innovation. Towards an extended framework for analysing technology policy
This paper analyses technology policy as a scholarly concern and political practice that needs to be taken beyond the present somewhat singular focus on innovation and deployment. We also need to include an interest in the making of infrastructure, the provision of regulations, and democratic engage...
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Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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| author | Knut Holtan Sørensen |
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| description | This paper analyses technology policy as a scholarly concern and political practice that needs to be taken beyond the present somewhat singular focus on innovation and deployment. We also need to include an interest in the making of infrastructure, the provision of regulations, and democratic engagement. Consequently, this paper introduces the concepts of socialisation and domestication to overcome the instrumental, economic framing of technology policy. These concepts highlight the importance of embedding and enacting new technology. The suggested conceptual framework is used in a brief synthetic analysis of four examples of technology policy and technological development in the Norwegian context: cars, wind power, hydrogen for transport, and carbon capture and storage (CCS). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da30534f5abf41c19e91b7662152908b2023-09-03T10:29:16ZengNordic Journal of Science and Technology StudiesNordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies1894-46472016-12-011110.5324/njsts.v1i1.2122Beyond innovation. Towards an extended framework for analysing technology policyKnut Holtan SørensenThis paper analyses technology policy as a scholarly concern and political practice that needs to be taken beyond the present somewhat singular focus on innovation and deployment. We also need to include an interest in the making of infrastructure, the provision of regulations, and democratic engagement. Consequently, this paper introduces the concepts of socialisation and domestication to overcome the instrumental, economic framing of technology policy. These concepts highlight the importance of embedding and enacting new technology. The suggested conceptual framework is used in a brief synthetic analysis of four examples of technology policy and technological development in the Norwegian context: cars, wind power, hydrogen for transport, and carbon capture and storage (CCS).https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/njsts/article/view/2122Technology policyinnovationdeploymentsocialisationdomestication |
| spellingShingle | Knut Holtan Sørensen Beyond innovation. Towards an extended framework for analysing technology policy Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies Technology policy innovation deployment socialisation domestication |
| title | Beyond innovation. Towards an extended framework for analysing technology policy |
| title_full | Beyond innovation. Towards an extended framework for analysing technology policy |
| title_fullStr | Beyond innovation. Towards an extended framework for analysing technology policy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond innovation. Towards an extended framework for analysing technology policy |
| title_short | Beyond innovation. Towards an extended framework for analysing technology policy |
| title_sort | beyond innovation towards an extended framework for analysing technology policy |
| topic | Technology policy innovation deployment socialisation domestication |
| url | https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/njsts/article/view/2122 |
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