Academy for Technology Assessment
The Academy for Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg (TA Academy, AFTA) was a scientific institution for technology assessment . From 2001 to 2003, the sociologist of technology Ortwin Renn was the last director of the academy, after having been a member of the Academy's board of directors together with the biologist and scientific theorist Hans Mohr since 1992 .
According to the statutes, the purpose of the foundation was "to research and evaluate the consequences of technology and to initiate and coordinate the social discourse on technology assessment." It was founded in 1991 by the state government of Baden-Württemberg as a foundation under public law and began operations on April 1, 1992. In November 2002, the state government decided to close it at the end of 2003 for cost reasons. Employees and Greens criticized the closure as politically motivated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ uni-stuttgart.de: Editorial ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 29 kB) Lexicon of Sustainability , accessed on October 22, 2011
- ^ Academy for Technology Assessment , accessed on October 21, 2011
Web links
- Website (offline since 2005, "is currently being updated and completed")
- Publications of the TA Academy on the website of the University of Stuttgart
- Ortwin Renn, "10 Years Academy for Technology Assessment", in: Technology Assessment , No. 2 / 11th year - July 2002, pp. 93–96
- Gerhard Fuchs, "Technology assessment on the sidelines? Closing the Academy for Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg", in: Technology Assessment , No. 2, Volume 12 - June 2003, pp. 83–90
- Information in the "Lexicon of Sustainability