Stefan Böschen
Biographic Data
| ID | 201661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Böschen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Böschen |
| SIGNATURE | BÖSCHEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | RWTH Aachen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0519-5030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Categorizing realist, critical, and pragmatist perspectives on innovation ecosystems: A research agenda and an initial application to artificial intelligence
While discourses on innovation ecosystems have become popular in academia, policy, and practice, they often take place in disciplinary silos and are marked by ambiguity. To address these issues, this research note categorizes the rapidly growing literature on innovation ecosystems into realist, critical, and pragmatist perspectives. It draws out their diverging assumptions about the nature of ecosystems, the impacts of innovation on society, and …
Anticipatory alignment work: The politics of anticipation in an emerging innovation ecosystem of neuromorphic computing
The alignment of science, technology, and innovation with societal values and concerns is a key objective of governance approaches that include technology assessment, responsible (research and) innovation, and anticipatory governance. Such alignment is supposed to take place, inter alia, in anticipatory practices involving technoscientific experts, stakeholders, and publics, whose views are then integrated into research and development. However, …
Nuclear safeguards during crises: Three scenarios of restricted access to nuclear interim storage facilities
Safeguards by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) play a pivotal role in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Over the years, the IAEA’s safeguards system has adapted to technological advancements and changing political landscapes, making it more resilient and flexible. This adaption is not only the result of programmes aiming at preparing and foreseeing future challenges in the nuclear field but also the result of several c…
Towards niche readiness: Achieving socio-economic maturity in the bottom-up transition to DC power systems
Towards transformative innovation ecosystems: A systemic approach to responsible innovation
To address societal challenges, innovators committed to responsibility need to find ways to break away from unsustainable, or otherwise undesirable, path-dependencies in sociotechnical regimes. Such path-breaking innovation should not come at the expense of socioethical desirability. The emerging literature on responsible innovation ecosystems has focused on socioethical desirability but has neglected sociotechnical viability beyond a protected n…
The Limits of Responsibilization? Responsibility Boundary-Work Through Visions in the Case of Neuromorphic Computing
Visions and imaginaries have been longstanding research topics in Science and Technology Studies. Visions of sociotechnical change often ascribe responsibility for achieving the desired change to specific actors. However, there is little research on how visions create, change, and preserve responsibilities in the present. Drawing on Vision Assessment, we present a case-study on visions of neuromorphic computing in NeuroSys, a research and innovat…
Living Lab
In this article, Backhaus et al. shed light on the background, debate and criticism as well as current forms of implementation of Living Labs in higher education. Multiple projects in Germany and the EU help to demonstrate that educational Living Labs can fulfill the triple role of enabling research and education while at the same time advancing the sustainability transformation of higher education institutions and their local or regional surroun…
Responsible innovation ecosystem governance: Socio-technical integration research for systems-level capacity building
Calls for a ‘systemic turn’ in Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I) stem from unease with engagement research. Engagement research structures science-society interactions to align research and innovation processes with societal considerations. As this research often focuses on micro practices of actors at discrete events or in bounded environments, it tends to neglect the systemic nature of these processes. We in…
Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning
e German term Hochschulbildung refers to teaching and learning at a broad range of research and art institutions in tertiary education.Within this sector, Hochschulbildung builds bridges between professional and social e forts on the one hand and scientific endeavours on the other.Its manifestations are shaped by social, cultural, ecological, economic, and political dynamics (e.g.internationalisation and globalization).However, it is itself also …
Technikfolgenabschätzung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis
The complexity of socio-technological challenges and the uncertainty of decisions are both increasing. Therefore, there is a need for knowledge-based and option-oriented assessment and advice. Technology assessment (TA) can offer alternative approaches to and perspectives on current decision-making processes. This handbook provides guidance in developing new answers to the problems under investigation. It pursues three objectives. Firstly, it ref…
Science & Technology Studies: Nachhaltigkeit als problemorientierte Forschung
Communicating science in higher education and research institutions: An organization communication perspective on science communication
Purpose The paper reports on a research project exploring the change in the organizational context of communicators and communication units in higher education and research institutions (HERIs), the importance of informal processes within their daily work and the great diversity of expectations communicators have to tackle. Design/methodology/approach Based on a literature review, a mixed-methods study combining expert interviews with 54 German H…
Identity Politics: Participatory Research and Its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control
Over the past 20 years, the participation of laypersons or representatives of civil society has become a guiding principle in processes of research and innovation. There is now a significant literature discussing collaboration between civil society organisations (CSOs) and researchers, with two interesting gaps. Firstly, the fact that research is mainly conducted within projects is often underestimated, although the format significantly frames kn…
Climate change in sociology: Still silent or resonating
Since Lever-Tracy's call for stronger sociological engagement with climate change in 2008, the number of climate-related contributions to leading sociological journals has increased. Yet, they still represent a small percentage of contributions overall. Reviewing the 37 articles published in eight top-ranked sociology journals until 2018, the authors of the present article identify five main subfields of research: (a) reflections on the role of t…
Reflexive Responsibilisierung - feldtheoretisch ausgeleuchtet
Meshworks and the Making of Climate Places in the European Alps
Ethnographers studying the local dimensions of climate change find themselves confronted with a methodological problem: climate change is both an abstract concept and a locally present phenomenon, yet it does not emerge from lived experience. We tackle this problem by means of a research framework that combines discussions on place and Tim Ingold’s (2011) idea of a meshwork. This article is based on research on climate change perceptions in two A…
Wissenschaftsforschung
Forms of articulating epistemic Critique
For many years now, there has been a vivid debate on contemporary forms of articulating epistemic critique, especially concerning the peer review mechanism but also dealing with fund mechanisms and, in some cases, focusing on book reviews. As reviews become more frequent and continue to exert considerable infl uence on the political landscape of academia, it is increasingly apparent that a fundamental understanding of the internal structure of ar…
Resilienz ‐ Analysetool sozialer Transformationen
Nachdem der Resilienzbegriff eine enorme Konjunktur erfahren hat, stellt sich die Frage nach seiner analytischen Qualität und Relevanz. Die These dieses Sonderhefts besteht darin, dass Resilienz das Potenzial zu einem interdisziplinären Analysetool sozialer Transformationen aufweist. Dazu muss sie jedoch einer systematischen Kontextualisierung unterzogen und hinsichtlich ihrer normativen Implikationen reflektiert werden
Resilienzkonstruktionen: Divergenz und Konvergenz von Theoriemodellen - Eine konzeptionell-empirische Analyse
Der Resilienzbegriff findet vielfältige Anwendung in der (inter-)disziplinären Forschung. Ein systematisches und empirisch gestütztes Verständnis unterschiedlicher Konzeptualisierungen von Resilienz trägt dazu bei, die Nutzbarkeit des Begriffs in der transdisziplinären Forschung zu verbessern.The concept of resilience has been applied within a wide spectrum of disciplines and has become increasingly relevant for interdisciplinary research. The in…
Experimentelle Gesellschaft: Das Experiment als wissensgesellschaftliches Dispositiv
Hybride Wissensregime: Skizze einer soziologischen Feldtheorie
Gegenwärtig erodieren etablierte Ordnungen des Wissens und es entstehen neue Zonen der Uneindeutigkeit. Diese Prozesse werden vielfach als Politisierung, Ökonomisierung und Medialisierung der Wissenschaft zu begreifen versucht
Material Agency as a Challenge to Empirical Research
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in materiality in social research. Some might say that materiality is now back on the agenda of social research. The challenges of bringing materiality back have spurred lively debates about material agency, most of which, however, are leveled at the largely dematerialized theories of the social in the social sciences, for example, in material culture studies (Appadurai 1986; Miller 1998) as well as s…
Wissenschaft der Transformation – Transformationen der Wissenschaft
Transformative Wissenschaft sieht sich in einem Spannungsfeld: Einerseits soll sie nützliches Wissen für kollektives Problemlösen bereitstellen, was transdisziplinäres Arbeiten und weite Spielräume erfordert. Andererseits soll sie mit immer weniger Mitteln auskommen und sich im disziplinären Wettbewerb behaupten. Drei aktuelle Bücher loten in ihrer Zusammenschau dieses Spannungsfeld aus
Modes of Constructing Evidence: Sustainable Development as Social Experimentation-The Cases of Chemical Regulations and Climate Change Politics
Envisioning strategies for sustainable development and its governance are knowledge-intensive processes. Against this background, conflicts about the correct form and actual validity of knowledge supporting sustainable development have arisen. What can be seen as evident-and what not? This article is based on the argument that there are differing modes creating evidence within “epistemic“ and “practice“ communities. Therefore, I propose to deciph…
Scientific Nonknowledge and Its Political Dynamics: The Cases of Agri-Biotechnology and Mobile Phoning
While in the beginning of the environmental debate, conflicts over environmental and technological issues had primarily been understood in terms of ''risk'', over the past two decades the relevance of ignorance, or nonknowledge, was emphasized. Referring to this shift of attention to nonknowledge the article presents two main findings: first, that in debates on what is not known and how to appraise it different and partly conflicting epistemic cu…
Wissenschaft zwischen Folgenverantwortung und Nichtwissen: Aktuelle Perspektiven der Wissenschaftsforschung
Climate change in sociology: Still silent or resonating
Since Lever-Tracy's call for stronger sociological engagement with climate change in 2008, the number of climate-related contributions to leading sociological journals has increased. Yet, they still represent a small percentage of contributions overall. Reviewing the 37 articles published in eight top-ranked sociology journals until 2018, the authors of the present article identify five main subfields of research: (a) reflections on the role of t…
Soziale Ungleichheit — Kulturelle Unterschiede: 32. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 4.–8. Oktober 2004 an der LMU München
Wissenschaft in der Wissensgesellschaft
Having or Doing Intellectual Property Rights? Transgenic Seed on the Edge between Refeudalisation and Napsterisation
In contrast to neoliberal rhetoric, the commercialisation of knowledge has proved to be an intricate endeavour that implies unexpected effects. Taking Monsanto's transgenic canola and its propertisation regime as an example, we will shed some light on the counterintuitive phenomenon that strong intellectual property rights are in heavy contrast to the liberal utopia of full commodification,i.e.universal competition and ideal type market relations…
The Limits of Responsibilization? Responsibility Boundary-Work Through Visions in the Case of Neuromorphic Computing
Visions and imaginaries have been longstanding research topics in Science and Technology Studies. Visions of sociotechnical change often ascribe responsibility for achieving the desired change to specific actors. However, there is little research on how visions create, change, and preserve responsibilities in the present. Drawing on Vision Assessment, we present a case-study on visions of neuromorphic computing in NeuroSys, a research and innovat…
Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning
e German term Hochschulbildung refers to teaching and learning at a broad range of research and art institutions in tertiary education.Within this sector, Hochschulbildung builds bridges between professional and social e forts on the one hand and scientific endeavours on the other.Its manifestations are shaped by social, cultural, ecological, economic, and political dynamics (e.g.internationalisation and globalization).However, it is itself also …
Experimentelle Gesellschaft: Das Experiment als wissensgesellschaftliches Dispositiv
Autorisierung. Eine wissenschafts- und wirtschaftssoziologische Perspektive auf geistiges Eigentum
Wozu Umweltforschung? – Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Forschungstraditionen und umweltpolitischen Leitbildern Teil I: "Das Beispiel "Ökologische Chemie
We investigate the kinds of questions asked by environmental scientists. To this end, we describe the orientation of scientific research by posing four questions: What is the lack of knowledge to be addressed by the research? What is the purpose of the results? What are the subjects the research is dealing with? What are the methods chosen for the investigation? We propose that problem-oriented environmental science should strive to find answers …
Wozu Umweltforschung? – Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Forschungstraditionen und umweltpolitischen Leitbildern Teil II: Zum Leitbild “Reflexive Umweltforschung”
In the treatment of environmental problems, there is often a discrepancy between the needs of planners and decision makers and the results provided by scientific research. This discrepancy is related to the different aims, priorities, and codes of practice of scientists, on the one hand, and decision- and policy-makers, on the other hand. To explore how this discrepancy could be reduced to some extent, we first introduce the distinction between k…
Wissensgesellschaft und reflexive Modernisierung
In Zeiten rapiden und tiefgehenden Wandels — und in einer solchen befinden wir uns derzeit — steigt bekanntlich der Bedarf an perspektivisch unterschiedlichen Gesellschafts- und Entwicklungsdiagnosen. Was in diesen Selbstthematisierungsdiskursen verhandelt wird, ist nicht nur die Frage nach der adäquaten Beschreibung des strukturellen Wandels, sondern nicht zuletzt auch die Frage nach möglichen gewünschten oder zu verhindernden gesellschaftlichen…
Rinderwahnsinn. Können Gesellschaften aus Krisen lernen
Wissenschaft in der Wissensgesellschaft
Science Assessment: Eine Perspektive der Demokratisierung von Wissenschaft
Um die gegenwärtige Entwicklungsdynamik gesellschaftlicher Wissensordnungen und die sich daraus ergebende Notwendigkeit eines Science Assessment richtig einzuschätzen, muss man sich zunächst vor Augen halten, mit welch ungewöhnlicher und folgenreicher Erfindung es den modernen Verfassungsstaaten gelungen ist, aus den durch die wissenschaftliche Revolution des 17. Jahrhunderts ausgelösten Umwälzungen der Beziehung zwischen Wissen und Gesellschaft …
Soziale Ungleichheit — Kulturelle Unterschiede: 32. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 4.–8. Oktober 2004 an der LMU München
Wissenschaft zwischen Folgenverantwortung und Nichtwissen: Aktuelle Perspektiven der Wissenschaftsforschung
Nichtwissenskulturen und Nichtwissensdiskurse: Über den Umgang mit Nichtwissen in Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit
Scientific Cultures of Non-Knowledge in the Controversy over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO): The Cases of Molecular Biology and Ecology
The limits of scientific knowledge are an emerging problem in the debates about technological risk. In an exemplary analysis of the controversy surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMO), we show that the epistemic settings of two involved scientific disciplines – molecular biology and ecology – entail different types of non-knowledge and deal with non-knowledge differently. Both of these "scientific cultures of non-knowledge" are analysed …
Die Gegenwart der Zukunft: Perspektiven Zeitkritischer Wissenspolitik
Die Zukunft wurde in modernen Gesellschaften als Horizont unbegrenzter Möglichkeiten wissenschaftlich-technischer und damit auch gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung begriffen. Dieser optimistischen Sichtweise entgegengesetzt zeigt sich heute, wie sehr gegenwärtiges Handeln diesen Horizont von Möglichkeiten gerade begrenzt. In der Folge muss Fortschritt neu bewertet, Zukunft bewusst gestaltet werden. Entsprechend verschieben sich die Muster gesellschaf…
Entscheidungen unter Bedingungen pluraler Nichtwissenskulturen
Basisheuristiken – Zum Problem von Ereignis und Struktur in der Theorie reflexiver Modernisierung
Die Theorie reflexiver Modernisierung ist eine Theorie sozialen Wandels inder Moderne. Damit sind zumindest zwei große Fragen klärungsbedürftig. Erstens, wie kann die Gleichzeitigkeit von Kontinuität und Wandel beschrieben werden? Vereinfacht: Was bleibt modern und was zeigt reflexiv-moderne Züge? Zweitens, wie lässt sich der historische Prozesscharakter erhellen und auf welche Weise können sinnvolle Erklärungsmöglichkeiten bereitgestellt werden?…
Wissenschaft: Epistemisches Niemandsland?
Prekäre Balance: Ingenieurwissenschaft zwischen Innovations- und ReflexionskulturenDelicate Balance: Engineering Science between Innovation Cultures and Reflexive Cultures
Sustainable development is a great challenge for both research and education in engineering sciences. It requires not only that a specific technology meets specific functional needs, but also that the technology is developed under democratic decision processes. I therefore argue that we need to reflect on the specific structure of the epistemic culture of engineering sciences. Engineering sciences are characterized by a constellation of so-called…
Scientific Nonknowledge and Its Political Dynamics: The Cases of Agri-Biotechnology and Mobile Phoning
While in the beginning of the environmental debate, conflicts over environmental and technological issues had primarily been understood in terms of ''risk'', over the past two decades the relevance of ignorance, or nonknowledge, was emphasized. Referring to this shift of attention to nonknowledge the article presents two main findings: first, that in debates on what is not known and how to appraise it different and partly conflicting epistemic cu…
Having or Doing Intellectual Property Rights? Transgenic Seed on the Edge between Refeudalisation and Napsterisation
In contrast to neoliberal rhetoric, the commercialisation of knowledge has proved to be an intricate endeavour that implies unexpected effects. Taking Monsanto's transgenic canola and its propertisation regime as an example, we will shed some light on the counterintuitive phenomenon that strong intellectual property rights are in heavy contrast to the liberal utopia of full commodification,i.e.universal competition and ideal type market relations…
Autorisierung. Eine wissenschafts- und wirtschaftssoziologische Perspektive auf geistiges Eigentum
Modes of Constructing Evidence: Sustainable Development as Social Experimentation-The Cases of Chemical Regulations and Climate Change Politics
Envisioning strategies for sustainable development and its governance are knowledge-intensive processes. Against this background, conflicts about the correct form and actual validity of knowledge supporting sustainable development have arisen. What can be seen as evident-and what not? This article is based on the argument that there are differing modes creating evidence within “epistemic“ and “practice“ communities. Therefore, I propose to deciph…
Jenseits des Anpassungsmanagements: Zu den Potenzialen sozialwissenschaftlicher KlimawandelforschungBeyond Adaptation Management. What Role(s) for Social Sciences in Research on Climate Change
Wissenschaft der Transformation – Transformationen der Wissenschaft
Transformative Wissenschaft sieht sich in einem Spannungsfeld: Einerseits soll sie nützliches Wissen für kollektives Problemlösen bereitstellen, was transdisziplinäres Arbeiten und weite Spielräume erfordert. Andererseits soll sie mit immer weniger Mitteln auskommen und sich im disziplinären Wettbewerb behaupten. Drei aktuelle Bücher loten in ihrer Zusammenschau dieses Spannungsfeld aus
Material Agency as a Challenge to Empirical Research
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in materiality in social research. Some might say that materiality is now back on the agenda of social research. The challenges of bringing materiality back have spurred lively debates about material agency, most of which, however, are leveled at the largely dematerialized theories of the social in the social sciences, for example, in material culture studies (Appadurai 1986; Miller 1998) as well as s…
Hybride Wissensregime: Skizze einer soziologischen Feldtheorie
Gegenwärtig erodieren etablierte Ordnungen des Wissens und es entstehen neue Zonen der Uneindeutigkeit. Diese Prozesse werden vielfach als Politisierung, Ökonomisierung und Medialisierung der Wissenschaft zu begreifen versucht
Forms of articulating epistemic Critique
For many years now, there has been a vivid debate on contemporary forms of articulating epistemic critique, especially concerning the peer review mechanism but also dealing with fund mechanisms and, in some cases, focusing on book reviews. As reviews become more frequent and continue to exert considerable infl uence on the political landscape of academia, it is increasingly apparent that a fundamental understanding of the internal structure of ar…
Resilienz ‐ Analysetool sozialer Transformationen
Nachdem der Resilienzbegriff eine enorme Konjunktur erfahren hat, stellt sich die Frage nach seiner analytischen Qualität und Relevanz. Die These dieses Sonderhefts besteht darin, dass Resilienz das Potenzial zu einem interdisziplinären Analysetool sozialer Transformationen aufweist. Dazu muss sie jedoch einer systematischen Kontextualisierung unterzogen und hinsichtlich ihrer normativen Implikationen reflektiert werden
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