Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations

[EN]As part of a larger trend across industrialized nations, European research policy discourse has placed increasing emphasis on socio-technical integration: the explicit incorporation of activities devoted to broader social aspects into scientific activities. In order to compare these high-level i...

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Autores: Rodríguez Zabaleta, Hannot, Fisher, Erik, Schuurbiers, Daan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:socio-technical integration
EU Framework Programmes
research solicitations
ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects)
stakeholder engagement
responsible innovation
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spelling Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitationsRodríguez Zabaleta, HannotFisher, ErikSchuurbiers, Daansocio-technical integrationEU Framework Programmesresearch solicitationsELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects)stakeholder engagementresponsible innovation[EN]As part of a larger trend across industrialized nations, European research policy discourse has placed increasing emphasis on socio-technical integration: the explicit incorporation of activities devoted to broader social aspects into scientific activities. In order to compare these high-level integration discourses against patterns at the level of resource allocation, we analyze nearly 2500 research solicitations from the three European Framework Programmes for R&D during the period 1998–2010. We identify four distinct types of integration (socio-ethical, stakeholder, socio-economic and industrial) that occur either as core or parallel components of R&D solicitations. Quantitative analysis reveals an overall trend towards increasing integration, with requests integrating industrial and socio-economic aspects substantially outnumbering those integrating socio-ethical and stakeholder aspects—by a 2 to 1 margin. Meanwhile, calls for socio-technical integration have become slightly more extensive (ranging across a broader range of research areas addressed), significantly more pervasive (shifting from the periphery to the core of R&D practices), and arguably less diverse (involving a wider variety of integration types) over time. The relative lack of attention to socio-ethical aspects and stakeholder participation in European research is particularly notable given that we focus on potentially controversial areas (life sciences, energy, and nanotechnology), which likely overemphasizes the prevalence of integration throughout the Framework Programmes.Hannot Rodríguez's contribution is based on research supported by the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government under a Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Improvement of Research Personnel in a Foreign Country (Ref. No.: BFI08.183; 2009–2010 2-year period). This research was primarily conducted at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO), and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS), both at Arizona State University. Erik Fisher's contribution is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award #0849101 and cooperative agreement #0531194. The authors would like to thank David Guston, participants at the “Science and Governance: Global and Comparative Perspectives” workshop at Arizona State University (April 2010) and the Science and Technology Policy Gordon Research Conference (August 2010), and an anonymous reviewer for helpful feedback and constructive criticism of earlier versions of this work. Any limitations and shortcomings of the work remain the responsibility of the authors.Elsevier202420242013info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/68384reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733313000449info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/© 2013 Elsevier under CC BY-NC-ND licenseoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/683842026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations
title Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations
spellingShingle Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations
Rodríguez Zabaleta, Hannot
socio-technical integration
EU Framework Programmes
research solicitations
ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects)
stakeholder engagement
responsible innovation
title_short Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations
title_full Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations
title_fullStr Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations
title_full_unstemmed Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations
title_sort Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rodríguez Zabaleta, Hannot
Fisher, Erik
Schuurbiers, Daan
author Rodríguez Zabaleta, Hannot
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Fisher, Erik
Schuurbiers, Daan
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Schuurbiers, Daan
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv socio-technical integration
EU Framework Programmes
research solicitations
ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects)
stakeholder engagement
responsible innovation
topic socio-technical integration
EU Framework Programmes
research solicitations
ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects)
stakeholder engagement
responsible innovation
description [EN]As part of a larger trend across industrialized nations, European research policy discourse has placed increasing emphasis on socio-technical integration: the explicit incorporation of activities devoted to broader social aspects into scientific activities. In order to compare these high-level integration discourses against patterns at the level of resource allocation, we analyze nearly 2500 research solicitations from the three European Framework Programmes for R&D during the period 1998–2010. We identify four distinct types of integration (socio-ethical, stakeholder, socio-economic and industrial) that occur either as core or parallel components of R&D solicitations. Quantitative analysis reveals an overall trend towards increasing integration, with requests integrating industrial and socio-economic aspects substantially outnumbering those integrating socio-ethical and stakeholder aspects—by a 2 to 1 margin. Meanwhile, calls for socio-technical integration have become slightly more extensive (ranging across a broader range of research areas addressed), significantly more pervasive (shifting from the periphery to the core of R&D practices), and arguably less diverse (involving a wider variety of integration types) over time. The relative lack of attention to socio-ethical aspects and stakeholder participation in European research is particularly notable given that we focus on potentially controversial areas (life sciences, energy, and nanotechnology), which likely overemphasizes the prevalence of integration throughout the Framework Programmes.
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