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Innovation assessment

Governing Through Periods of Disruptive Technological Change

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ID6289728
AuthorsJacob Hasselbalch (0000-0001-5491-7023, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume25
Issue12
Pages1855-1873
Publication date2018-12-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2017.1363805
OpenAlexW2750426879
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited32

Current regulatory approaches are ill-equipped to address the challenges of governing through periods of disruptive technological change. This article hones in on the use of assessment regimes at the level of the European Union, particularly in the work of the Commission, to argue for a missing middle between technology assessment and impact assessment. Technology assessment focuses on the upstream governance of science and technology, while impact assessment focuses on the downstream governance of the impacts of specific policy options. What is missing is a form of midstream governance, which I label innovation assessment, to steer polities through periods of disruptive technological change, during which innovations have taken concrete forms and are beginning to diffuse, but still exhibit much scope for rapid, unexpected change and alternative trajectories of development. By juxtaposing these three forms of assessment regimes, I define the main dimensions along which they vary

Business · Commission · Corporate governance · Downstream (manufacturing · Economics · European commission · European union · Impact assessment · International trade · Macroeconomics · Management · Midstream · Political science · Quantitative assessment · Regional science · Risk analysis (engineering · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Technological change · Upstream (networking · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Intellectual Property and Patents · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Marketing

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Citations per year2,2
Citation span2021 - 2026 (6)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 11

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