Publications
Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective
This paper aims to open up high-level waste management practices to a political philosophical questioning, beyond the enclosure implied by the normative ethics approaches that…
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Promise engineering: Investment and its conflicting anticipations in the French mining revival
This paper analysis promises made by companies to various publics, including global investors, national public administrative bodies and local populations.
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Accountability and neglect in UK social care innovation
Accountability structures in social care are critical. They facilitate democratic decision-making, responsibility and the equitable distribution of benefits. This study examines how innovation and technology…
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Mandevillian Virtues
Studies in collective intelligence have shown that suboptimal cognitive traits of individuals can lead a group to succeed in a collective cognitive task, in recent…
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Can Creativity Be a Collective Virtue? Insights for the Ethics of Innovation
Virtue accounts of innovation ethics have recognized the virtue of creativity as an admirable trait in innovators.
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How Cooperatives Innovate for the Energy Transition? Case of Housing Cooperative Wroclaw South
Global Economy faces a challenge of the need for rapid decarbonisation. Households are responsible for 17,8% of CO2 emissions. As vast part of this emission…
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Mobilizing the private sector for responsible innovation in neurotechnology
Emerging neurotechnologies raise important governance questions related to, for example, dual use, brain data privacy, and manipulation of personal autonomy. Although many public sector research…
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Barriers that limit the scaling of RES projects in Polish cities
Authors: Magdalena Rozwadowska and Piotr SzymańskiThe challenges that we face as a consequence of current and upcoming climate changes in combination with international agreements on…
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Science Communication as a Boundary Space: An Interactive Installation about the Social Responsibility of Science
Science communication has traditionally been seen as a means of crossing the boundary of science: moving scientific knowledge into the public. This paper presents an…
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What is robotics made of? The interdisciplinary politics of robotics research
Under framings of grand challenges, robotics has been proposed as a solution to a wide range of societal issues such as road safety, ageing society,…
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Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission
Long presented as a universal policy-recipe for social prosperity and economic growth, the promise of innovation seems to be increasingly in question, giving way to…
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Conceptualising value creation in data-driven services: The case of vehicle data
The creation of data-driven services generates new value streams, leading to the emergence of new actors and ultimately to new market configurations. In the automotive industry,…
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New research: The Test Bed Island: Tech Business Experimentalism and Exception in Singapore
Our SCALINGS partner, Brice Laurent from Mines ParisTech, has published a new journal article in Science as Culture. Abstract Islands imaginaries are imaginaries of exception,…
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New book chapter: Innovation for Whom? City Experiments and the Redefinition of Urban Democracy
Our SCALINGS partner, Brice Laurent, has a new book chapter on Innovation Beyond Technology. As “smart cities” or “eco cities” proliferate, innovation has become a…
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New book chapter: Democratising Driverless Futures: Five Lessons for Public Dialogue on AVs
Nicole Badstuber and Jack Stilgoe have a chapter in this new open access book. It’s about public dialogue and learning from the European controversy around genetically modified…
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Testing future societies? Developing a framework for test beds and living labs as instruments of innovation governance
Test beds and living labs have emerged as a prominent approach to foster innovation across geographical regions and technical domains.
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SCALINGS partner launches book: Who’s driving innovation?
Too often, we understand the effects of technological change only in hindsight. When technologies are new, it is not clear where they are taking us…
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Paper published: “Can We Own the Energy Transition?”
We are delighted to announce that our SCALINGS partners at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business (WUEB) have published a paper “Can We Own the…
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Co-creating European Futures – SCALINGS Team Publishes Policy Roadmap
How can co-creation help to address the contemporary societal challenges by increasing public participation in the development of social…
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Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective
This paper aims to open up high-level waste management practices to a political philosophical questioning, beyond the enclosure implied…
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Testing future societies?
Our SCALINGS partner, Sebastian Pfotenhauer from TUM, shared his SCALINGS research at an Urban Experimentation Webinar Series…
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The puzzling road toward Connected and Automated Driving CAD future
Our SCALINGS partner, Mathieu Baudrin from CSI/Mines ParisTech, shared his SCALINGS research at an Urban Experimentation Webinar Series…
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Investigating the laboratories of urban experiments
Our SCALINGS partner, Brice Laurent from CSI/Mines ParisTech, shared his SCALINGS research at an Urban Experimentation Webinar Series…
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Promise engineering: Investment and its conflicting anticipations in the French mining revival
This paper analysis promises made by companies to various publics, including global investors, national public administrative bodies…
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Accountability and neglect in UK social care innovation
Accountability structures in social care are critical. They facilitate democratic decision-making, responsibility and the equitable…
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Mandevillian Virtues
Studies in collective intelligence have shown that suboptimal cognitive traits of individuals can lead a group to succeed in a collective…
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Can Creativity Be a Collective Virtue? Insights for the Ethics of Innovation
Virtue accounts of innovation ethics have recognized the virtue of creativity as an admirable trait in innovators.…
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How Cooperatives Innovate for the Energy Transition? Case of Housing Cooperative Wroclaw South
Global Economy faces a challenge of the need for rapid decarbonisation. Households are responsible for 17,8% of CO2 emissions. As vast…
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Mobilizing the private sector for responsible innovation in neurotechnology
Emerging neurotechnologies raise important governance questions related to, for example, dual use, brain data privacy, and manipulation…
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Barriers that limit the scaling of RES projects in Polish cities
Authors: Magdalena Rozwadowska and Piotr SzymańskiThe challenges that we face as a consequence of current and upcoming climate changes…
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SCALINGS Co-Creation Lab from TUM and Imperial College London: an experimental course ends in success
After nine weeks of engaging with theoretical details on innovation, participation, and responsibility within co-creation, TUM and…
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What is wrong with co-creation?
This essay explores the critical discussions on co-creation, its contradictory effects and the inequalities it might inadvertently…
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From research to teaching: TUM and Imperial’s collaborative co-creation course kick-off
On a cool April afternoon, seven STS scholars joined their students to offer them a unique course on co-creation, along with the opportunity…
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Science Communication as a Boundary Space: An Interactive Installation about the Social Responsibility of Science
Science communication has traditionally been seen as a means of crossing the boundary of science: moving scientific knowledge into…
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What is robotics made of? The interdisciplinary politics of robotics research
Under framings of grand challenges, robotics has been proposed as a solution to a wide range of societal issues such as road safety…
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Co-Creating a European Co-Creation Roadmap
On Friday afternoon (March 19) the SCALINGS Roadmap-Team presented a preliminary draft of the roadmap, asking participants for their…
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Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission
Long presented as a universal policy-recipe for social prosperity and economic growth, the promise of innovation seems to be increasingly…
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Conceptualising value creation in data-driven services: The case of vehicle data
The creation of data-driven services generates new value streams, leading to the emergence of new actors and ultimately to new market…
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Is co-creation the magic potion for innovation?
This essay explores the question: Does co-creation really make innovation (more) democratic?…
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[SCALINGS Online Series] Innovating together: Responsible scaling of co-creation
Scaling of innovations is seen as an inescapable answer to the growing urgency to tackle grand societal challenges. Co-creation is…
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To co-create, we must first empower!
Getting involved in a co-creation project is both exciting and challenging as you will be working with multiple stakeholders, all with…
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Let’s hack the crisis!?
Reflections on the EUvsVirus hackathon as an ad-hoc innovation site by Julia Renninger (TUM). These reflections are part of a larger…
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Public Engagement in the Smart City – Reflections from Digital Day
Written by Anja K. Ruess, TUM On June 19 2020, SCALINGS conducted an open online workshop on co-creation in co-operation with our case…
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Crowdsourcing as Epistemic Landscape
Our SCALINGS partner, Gianluigi Viscusi (Imperial College Business School) is taking part in the Open Sessions at the 2020 Joint Session…
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What can we learn from Little Roady?
Author: Jack Stilgoe, UCLThis article was originally posted on Driverless Futures. Warren Buffet once said that it’s only…
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Humanity, Technology And The Pandemic Crisis
The speed and scale with which Covid-19 has spread over the course of just a few months are reconfiguring the way we think and act…
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Testing future societies? Developing a framework for test beds and living labs as instruments of innovation governance
Test beds and living labs have emerged as a prominent approach to foster innovation across geographical regions and technical domains…
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SCALINGS @4th Congress of Wroclaw Non-Governmental Organizations
On 19 June 2020, our SCALINGS partner, Prof. Bozena Ryszawska from University of Wrocław, contributed in…
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Co-Creating a Sustainable Future
Join The Premier Virtual Innovation Conference! Threee of our SCALINGS partners will be presenting papers at this year’s conference…
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Collective Intelligence, Crowd Dynamics and Co-creation
SCALINGS @ 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development (STPIS’20) Our SCALINGS partner, Gianluigi…
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Digital Day with the City of Ulm (Online workshop)
JOIN SCALINGS AND THE CITY OF ULM FOR DIGITAL DAY! This first session will explore the theme of Digitalization of the Grassroots &…
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SCALINGS 3rd Annual Meeting
On 14-15 May 2020, the SCALINGS consortium partners gathered virtually for our third annual meeting.…
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Co-creating the definition of ‘Co-creation’
Author: Jenny Graner, TUM “We must look at any given situation or problem from the front and from the back, from the sides, and from…
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Researching co-creation during the Covid-19 outbreak
Conducting research on innovative co-creation involves extensive traveling to conduct interviews, observe field tests, and discuss…
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Putting Connected and Autonomous Vehicles to Test
The following is an adapted excerpt from the summary document of the workshop, “Putting Connected and Autonomous Vehicles to Test…
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How the virus has made the world a ‘robot-friendly’ place
Amidst the Covid-19 crisis, we have witnessed a peculiar development: robots have come to the front line of the pandemic. They disinfect…
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SCALINGS partner launches book: Who’s driving innovation?
Too often, we understand the effects of technological change only in hindsight. When technologies are new, it is not clear where they…
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SCALINGS participation in School Climate Conference
Recently, the SCALINGS project took part in a School Climate Conference. The event was organized jointly by the University of Economics…
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SCALINGS Partner Meeting & Paper Workshop
On February 6th-7th 2020, the SCALINGS partners met in Vienna to discuss their progress within phase 2 of the project.…
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SCALINGS @ European Robotics Forum 2020
SCALING partners will be hosting 3 sessions at the European Robotics Forum 2020 (ERF 2020): Better innovation policies: Directing regional…
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Paper published: “Can We Own the Energy Transition?”
We are delighted to announce that our SCALINGS partners at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business (WUEB) have published a paper…
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Co-creation and Scalings in urban energy transition – The case of Wroclaw
Written by SCALINGS team @Wroclaw University of Economics Panel titled “Co-creation and Scalings in urban energy transition –…
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European Objects: The troubled dreams of harmonisation
Prof Brice Laurent, MINES ParisTech, 25 October 2019 Over the last three years Brexit has been an unavoidable news item in the UK and…
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Introducing euMOVE: European Mobility Venture
by Carlos Cuevas Garcia, TUM How are European cities designing their futures of mobility? SCALINGS researchers are involved in…
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SCALINGS & Digitale Zukunftskommune@Ulm
by Anja Rueß Inside SCALINGS – Meet Ulm’s “Digital Municipality of the Future”: SCALINGS collaborates with…
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From ‘smart technologies’ to citizen participation
By Sophie Nyborg, DTU EnergyLab Nordhavn is an important case of an urban energy living lab/testbed in the SCALINGS project, so I was…
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How do you develop a co-creative course on Ethics?
by Gunter Bombaerts (TU/e) and Diana Adele Martin (Technological University of Dublin) Highlights from workshop @ SEFI Annual…
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What does a Robotics living lab look like?
By Carlos Cuevas Garcia, TUM Living labs and testbeds are key research sites for SCALINGS. These are places where new technologies…
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Energy on roofs – solar revolution in Wroclaw
by UE WE The research team from Wroclaw University of Economics with the Youth Climate Strike organized an open meeting with representatives…
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Insights from Open Living Lab Days Conference 2019
by Shelly Tsui, TU/e The act of co-creating, which generally refers to collaborating on joint activities with diverse groups of stakeholders…
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Emancipation in Co-Creation
by Gunter Bombaerts and Erik Laes, TU/e Gunter Bombaerts and Erik Laes presented “Technology Participation And System Change. Empowerment…
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The question of justice in energy cooperatives
By Mandi Astola, TU/e Personal reflection on the question of justice in energy cooperatives at ECPR conference 2019. Last week, I presented…
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How experiments become futures: Social learning for self-driving cars
By Thomas Buocz, BOKU What is the connection between the tomato harvester and self-driving cars? Dr Jack Stilgoe, Associate Professor…
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Testing future societies? Test beds/living labs as instruments of innovation governance
by Melisa Krawielicki, BOKU @Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich (TUM…
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Co-creative learning in an ethics course
by Gunter Bombaerts, TU/e TU/e recently tested co-creative learning in a first year’s compulsory ethics course. Gunter Bombaerts…
(~2 min)Is co-creation the magic potion for (lighting) innovations?
by Michiel de Boer (Moesasji), ILI Magazine & Gunter Bombaerts, TU/e ILI Magazine interviews Gunter Bombaerts (an assistant professor…
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SCALINGS Partner Meeting in Wroclaw Jan/Feb 2019
Wroclaw, 31st January – 1st February 2019 At the University of Economics in Wrocalw (PL) almost 30 scientists from all universities…
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Building Responsible Innovation: Frameworks and Best-Practices in the Private Sector
SCALINGS on Keynote Panel at OECD Workshop in Shanghai, 6th – 7th September 2018 SCALINGS coordinator Sebastian Pfotenhauer participated…
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Global Perspectives on Responsible Innovation: Widening the Gaze
SCALINGS hosts panel at 4S in Sydney, 29th August – 1st September 2018 SCALINGS coordinator Sebastian Pfotenhauer (TUM) co-hosted…
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SCALINGS Kick-Off
Munich, 24th – 25th May 2018 About 30 researchers from across Europe gathered at TU Munich to celebrate the official launch of…
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What is wrong with co-creation?
This essay explores the critical discussions on co-creation, its contradictory effects and the inequalities it might inadvertently…
(~5 min)Is co-creation the magic potion for innovation?
This essay explores the question: Does co-creation really make innovation (more) democratic?…
(~5 min)To co-create, we must first empower!
Getting involved in a co-creation project is both exciting and challenging as you will be working with multiple stakeholders, all with…
(~3 min)Co-creating the definition of ‘Co-creation’
Author: Jenny Graner, TUM “We must look at any given situation or problem from the front and from the back, from the sides, and from…
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