Science and Public Policy 

About: Science and Public Policy is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Public policy & Science policy. It has an ISSN identifier of 0302-3427. Over the lifetime, 2181 publications have been published receiving 51075 citations. The journal is also known as: Science & public policy.

Responsible research and innovation: From science in society to science for society, with society

Abstract: The term responsible (research and) innovation has gained increasing EU policy relevance in the last two years, in particular within the European Commission’s Science in Society programme, in the context of the Horizon 2020 Strategy. We provide a brief historical overview of the concept, and identify three distinct features that are emerging from associated discourses. The first is an emphasis on the democratic governance of the purposes of research and innovation and their orientation towards the ‘right impacts’. The second is responsiveness, emphasising the integration and institutionalisation of established approaches of anticipation, reflection and deliberation in and around research and innovation, influencing the direction of these and associated policy. The third concerns the framing of responsibility itself in the context of research and innovation as collective activities with uncertain and unpredictable consequences. Finally, we reflect on possible motivations for responsible innovation itself.

Emergence of a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations

Abstract: At a workshop in Amsterdam in January 1996, the Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations was discussed with a focus on the future of university research in the emerging regime of knowledge production and dissemination. The helices are hypothesized as selection mechanisms; the distributed events can then be considered as the outcomes of interactions between these underlying dynamics. A focus is suggested on communicative interactions and reflexive mechanisms thus extending the analytical framework, so that the study of the knowledge infrastructure of society can be endogenized into the model of evolutionary economics. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

The Triple Helix as a model for innovation studies

Abstract: The Second Conference on the Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations focused on “the future location of research.” In this report, the Triple Helix thesis is developed into a recursive model of how an overlay of communications operates on the underlying institutions. Market selections, innovative dynamics, and network controls provide different codes of communication at the global level. Local translations at the interfaces induce adaptation mechanisms in the institutional arrangements. While two dynamics tend to coevolve into trajectories, a regime of transitions emerges when trajectories can be recombined. The emerging hyper-networks are expected to be in flux. Institutions can then be flexible in temporarily assuming roles of other partners. Niche management and human capital management become crucial. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Democratising expertise and socially robust knowledge

Abstract: This paper presents arguments for the inherent ‘transgressiveness’ of expertise. First, it must address issues that can never be reduced to the purely scientific and purely technical, and hence must link up with diverse practices, institutions and actors. Second, it addresses audiences that are never solely composed of fellow-experts, whose expectations and modes of understanding reflect the heterogeneous experience of mixed audiences. Recent demands for greater accountability have created a vast site for social experimentation, especially on the supra-national level, which are briefly reviewed. However, the democratisation of expertise also creates tensions, especially on the institutional level. Moving from reliable knowledge towards socially robust knowledge may be one step forward in negotiating and bringing about a regime of pluralistic expertise. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.