Relevant Research in a Knowledge Democracy: Citizens’ Participation in Defining Research Agendas for Europe

In our rapidly changing societies there is an on-going and increasing demand for research and development of science and technology. Therefore defining of research agendas becomes of great importance for the societal development. In a democratic perspective the process of defining relevant and proactive research agendas could in many respects gain from consultation of citizens. The new research agendas may very well be found among some of the tensions and frictions in our societies, for example social problems, health challenges and work life balance, and the citizens have special qualifications for identifying those write Anders Jacobi, Lars Klüver and Mikko Rask in their article (Book Knowledge Democracy).

PUBLICATION
Anders Jacobi (Danish Board of Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark, DBT), Lars Klüver (Danish Board of Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark, DBT) and Mikko Rask (National Consumer Research Centre Finland, Helsinki, Finland)
Relevant Research in a Knowledge Democracy: Citizens’ Participation in Defining Research Agendas for Europe
Book Knowledge Democracy
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u443770r11011824/?p=b1b0bf224c6d4bca85ffd7a36160f7aaπ=7
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-11381-9
Copyright 2010
ISBN 978-3-642-11380-2 (Print) 978-3-642-11381-9 (Online)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-11381-9_8
Pages 87-98
Subject Collection Business and Economics
SpringerLink Date Wednesday, March 10, 2010


CIVISTI
The Civisti project is a project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Science in Society programme. The aim of the project is to identify new, emerging topics for the EU R&D policy. This will happen by consulting citizens in 7 European countries (Denmark, Austria, Flanders/Belgium, Finland, Malta, Bulgaria, Hungary) uncovering European citizens' visions of the future and transform these into relevant long-term science, technology and innovation issues.
http://www.civisti.org/

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