Herbert Paschen (economist)

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Herbert Paschen (born June 14, 1933 in Hamm ) is a German economist. He is one of the leading pioneers in technology assessment in Germany , has been the head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis for many years and the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag, as well as an honorary professor at the University of Kassel.

Life

Herbert Paschen was born on June 14, 1933 in Hamm in Westphalia, grew up in Rheydt and has lived in Heidelberg since 1953. There he studied English and Spanish at the interpreting institute and economics at the University of Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in 1968 from the University of Heidelberg on "The measurement of company and company concentration".

As early as 1963, Paschen was active in the study group for systems research (SfS) founded by Helmut Krauch , of which he later became the managing director and head of the “Planning and Innovation” research area.

In response to the establishment of the US Office of Technology Assessment in 1972 , Paschen and colleagues carried out a study on the problems and methods of technology assessment and their use by the German parliament in 1974 on behalf of the German Bundestag . The study was published in 1978 and is considered to be one of the most authoritative, early monographs on technology assessment in Germany.

The "Planning and Innovation" department of the SfS, headed by Paschen, was transferred to the then nuclear research center in Karlsruhe in 1975 . In 1977 it became the independent scientific department for applied systems analysis (AFAS) headed by Paschen, which in 1995 was upgraded to the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Research Center . Herbert Paschen was the director of the institute until his retirement in 1998. He was also an honorary professor in the product design course at the Kunsthochschule Kassel until 1998 .

In 1987 Herbert Paschen was appointed to the second study commission of the German Bundestag, which finally led to the resolution of the German Bundestag in 1989 to commission a scientific institution to carry out a technology assessment for the German Bundestag. In 1990 the Office for Technology Assessment was established at the German Bundestag , the first head of which was Herbert Paschen until the end of 2001.

Works (selection)

  • The measurement of the company and company concentration: With a quantitative study of the concentration in the iron and steel industry of the ECSC countries. Phil. Faculty, dissertation from July 26, 1968, Heidelberg 1968. Published under the same title: Haufe, Freiburg i. Br. 1969.
  • Technology assessment: goals, methodological and organizational problems, applications. Together with: Gresser, Klaus; Conrad, Felix. Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. New York 1978, ISBN 3-593-32246-3 .
  • Technology assessment for the SÄNGER space transport system . Together with R. Coenen, F. Gloede, G. Sardemann. H. Tangen. Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag, Berlin 1992, TAB work report No. 14
  • Parliaments and Technology. The Development of Technology Assessment in Europe. Edited together with NJ Vig. State University of New York Press, Albany 2000, ISBN 978-0-7914-4303-3
  • Nanotechnology: research, development, application. Together with: Coenen, Chr .; Fleischer, T .; Grünwald, R .; Oertel, D .; Revermann, Chr. Springer, Heidelberg a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-540-21068-7 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The expert for technology risks. Herbert Paschen is 80 years old. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, June 14, 2013, p. 6.
  2. ^ Coenen / Simon: System research - policy advice and public education . Kassel 2011, p. 3 and 467
  3. ↑ The expert for technology risks. Herbert Paschen is 80 years old. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, June 14, 2013, p. 6.
  4. ^ Coenen / Simon: System research - policy advice and public education . Kassel 2011, p. 43
  5. ^ Wingert comments on the history of the institute . In: Grunwald / Riehm (ed.): Yearbook of the Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analysis (ITAS) on the occasion of its tenth anniversary in July 2005. ITAS yearbook 2003/2004. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2005, pp. 345–356, ISBN 3-923704-48-8
  6. ^ Wingert comments on the history of the institute . In: Grunwald / Riehm (ed.): Yearbook of the Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analysis (ITAS) on the occasion of its tenth anniversary in July 2005. ITAS yearbook 2003/2004. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2005, pp. 345–356, ISBN 3-923704-48-8
personal data
SURNAME Paschen, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm