Auke Pols

Biographic Data

ID4869563
NAMEAuke Pols
GIVEN NAMESAuke
FAMILY NAMEPols
SIGNATUREPOLS A
AFFILIATIONSEindhoven University of Technology
ORCID0000-0001-7092-3730
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation: Organisational and National Conditions

    Christian Wittrock, Ellen-Marie Forsberg et al.BOOKImplementing Responsible Research…2021

    This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational and national conditions for implementing Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) policies and practices. It gives the reader a thorough understanding of the different aspects of RRI, and of barriers and drivers of implementation of RRI related policies. It shows how different organisational and national contexts provide unique challenges and opportunities for bri…

  • Overview of National Sociotechnical Imaginaries

    Open AccessChristian Wittrock, Ellen-Marie Forsberg et al.CHAPTERImplementing Responsible Research…2021

    In this Chapter, we give an overview of national STI imaginaries by country. We provide information on policy structure and policy culture, and other aspects of national discourses and practices that are relevant to our study

  • What’s wrong with global challenges

    Open AccessDavid Ludwig, Vincent Blok et al.ARTICLEJournal of Responsible Innovation2021

    Global challenges such as climate change, food security, or public health have become dominant concerns in research and innovation policy. This article examines how responses to these challenges are addressed by governance actors. We argue that appeals to global challenges can give rise to a ‘solution strategy' that presents responses of dominant actors as solutions and a ‘negotiation strategy' that highlights the availability of heterogeneous an…

  • Evaluating irreversible social harms

    Open AccessAuke Pols, A J K Pols et al.ARTICLEPolicy Sciences2017Cited by: 1References: 12

    In this paper we investigate how irreversible social harms should be evaluated from an ethical perspective. First, we define a general notion of irreversibility, drawing on discussions in ecology and economics. This notion is relational in the sense that “irreversibility” is always “irreversibility for a certain party”. We also note that a change may be more or less difficult to reverse, with full reversibility and irreversibility as two extremes…

  • Limits to responsible innovation

    Open AccessEvelien De Hoop, Auke Pols et al.ARTICLEJournal of Responsible Innovation2016

    Responsible Innovation (RI) is a young field of research that has nevertheless had remarkable successes in dissemination within academic and political circles. However, there is relatively little awareness of its limits, blind spots and situations in which it cannot be used for actual innovation trajectories. Without such awareness, there is a risk that RI may get hollowed out and turned into a tool for 'greenwashing'. To examine RI's limits, we …

  • The Rationality of Biofuel Certification: A Critical Examination of EU Biofuel Policy

    Open AccessAuke Pols, A J K PolsARTICLEJournal of Agricultural and…2015Cited by: 3References: 8

    Certification for biofuels has been developed to ensure that biofuel production methods adhere to social and environmental sustainability standards. As such, requiring biofuel production to be certified has become part of EU policy through the 2009 renewable energy directive (RED), that aims to promote energy security, reduce emissions and promote rural development. According to the EU RED, in 2020 10 % of our transport energy should come from re…