Mareike Smolka
Biographic Data
| ID | 77421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mareike Smolka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mareike |
| FAMILY NAME | Smolka |
| SIGNATURE | SMOLKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | RWTH Aachen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0343-0888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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, …
A code of conduct in a non-codified world
Responsible innovation scholarship: Normative, empirical, theoretical, and engaged
Critique in, for, with, and of responsible innovation
Critique has been a central theme in Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I). R(R)I promises to critique dominant technocratic and economic regimes by conducting critical analysis, promoting critical reflection, and launching critical interventions to democratize science, technology, and innovation. However, the sheer success of R(R)I as a policy concept promoted by influential international organizations, a measure…
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…
Testing Reflexive Practitioner Dialogues: Capacities for Socio-technical Integration in Meditation Research
To put frameworks of Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I) into practice, engagement methods have been developed to study and enhance technoscientific experts’ capacities to reflexively address value considerations in their work. These methods commonly rely on engagement between technoscientific experts and social scholars, which makes them vulnerable to structural barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration. To c…
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…
Making epistemic goods compatible: Knowledge-making practices in a lifestyle intervention RCT on mindfulness and compassion meditation
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…
Why Does Controversy Persist? Paradigm Clash, Conflicting Visions, and Academic Productivity in the Aesthetics of Religion
The genre of controversy studies in Science & Technology Studies distinguishes between ‘internalist' and ‘interactional' controversies. Interactional controversy studies highlight that debates involving multiple stakeholders with competing interests often evade closure. Research on internalist controversies focuses on how a ‘core-set’ of experts manages to resolve arguments about knowledge claims. Yet, internalist controversies do not always reac…
The Ethnographic Patchwork Quilt: A post-publication methodography
From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Reports from integrative researchers who have followed calls for sociotechnical integration emphasize that the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration to inflect the social shaping of technoscience is often constrained by their liminal position. Integrative researchers tend to be positioned as either adversarial outsiders or co-opted insiders. In an attempt to navigate these dynamics, we show that attending to affective disturbances can open…
Generative Critique in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: From Critique in and of the Neurosciences to Socio-Technical Integration Research as a Practice of Critique in R(R)I
Discourses on Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation, in short R(R)I, have revolved around but not elaborated on the notion of critique. In this article, generative critique is introduced to R(R)I as a practice that sits in-between adversarial armchair critique and co-opted, uncritical service. How to position oneself and be positioned on this spectrum has puzzled humanities scholars and social scientists who engage in int…
Generative Critique in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: From Critique in and of the Neurosciences to Socio-Technical Integration Research as a Practice of Critique in R(R)I
Discourses on Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation, in short R(R)I, have revolved around but not elaborated on the notion of critique. In this article, generative critique is introduced to R(R)I as a practice that sits in-between adversarial armchair critique and co-opted, uncritical service. How to position oneself and be positioned on this spectrum has puzzled humanities scholars and social scientists who engage in int…
The Ethnographic Patchwork Quilt: A post-publication methodography
Why Does Controversy Persist? Paradigm Clash, Conflicting Visions, and Academic Productivity in the Aesthetics of Religion
The genre of controversy studies in Science & Technology Studies distinguishes between ‘internalist' and ‘interactional' controversies. Interactional controversy studies highlight that debates involving multiple stakeholders with competing interests often evade closure. Research on internalist controversies focuses on how a ‘core-set’ of experts manages to resolve arguments about knowledge claims. Yet, internalist controversies do not always reac…
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…
From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Reports from integrative researchers who have followed calls for sociotechnical integration emphasize that the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration to inflect the social shaping of technoscience is often constrained by their liminal position. Integrative researchers tend to be positioned as either adversarial outsiders or co-opted insiders. In an attempt to navigate these dynamics, we show that attending to affective disturbances can open…
Generative Critique in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: From Critique in and of the Neurosciences to Socio-Technical Integration Research as a Practice of Critique in R(R)I
Discourses on Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation, in short R(R)I, have revolved around but not elaborated on the notion of critique. In this article, generative critique is introduced to R(R)I as a practice that sits in-between adversarial armchair critique and co-opted, uncritical service. How to position oneself and be positioned on this spectrum has puzzled humanities scholars and social scientists who engage in int…
Why Does Controversy Persist? Paradigm Clash, Conflicting Visions, and Academic Productivity in the Aesthetics of Religion
The genre of controversy studies in Science & Technology Studies distinguishes between ‘internalist' and ‘interactional' controversies. Interactional controversy studies highlight that debates involving multiple stakeholders with competing interests often evade closure. Research on internalist controversies focuses on how a ‘core-set’ of experts manages to resolve arguments about knowledge claims. Yet, internalist controversies do not always reac…
The Ethnographic Patchwork Quilt: A post-publication methodography
From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Reports from integrative researchers who have followed calls for sociotechnical integration emphasize that the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration to inflect the social shaping of technoscience is often constrained by their liminal position. Integrative researchers tend to be positioned as either adversarial outsiders or co-opted insiders. In an attempt to navigate these dynamics, we show that attending to affective disturbances can open…
Making epistemic goods compatible: Knowledge-making practices in a lifestyle intervention RCT on mindfulness and compassion meditation
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…
Responsible innovation scholarship: Normative, empirical, theoretical, and engaged
Critique in, for, with, and of responsible innovation
Critique has been a central theme in Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I). R(R)I promises to critique dominant technocratic and economic regimes by conducting critical analysis, promoting critical reflection, and launching critical interventions to democratize science, technology, and innovation. However, the sheer success of R(R)I as a policy concept promoted by influential international organizations, a measure…
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…
Testing Reflexive Practitioner Dialogues: Capacities for Socio-technical Integration in Meditation Research
To put frameworks of Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I) into practice, engagement methods have been developed to study and enhance technoscientific experts’ capacities to reflexively address value considerations in their work. These methods commonly rely on engagement between technoscientific experts and social scholars, which makes them vulnerable to structural barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration. To c…
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…
A code of conduct in a non-codified world
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, …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Responsible Research and Innovation (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)