Innovation policy: not just a jumbo shrimp

Abstract

[...] more integrated socio-technical scenario projects have flourished, including scenario development by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnology at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, the 'opensource' scenario development of the Nano- Futures project by the CNS, and scenarios of converging technologies developed by the University of Oxford's James Martin Institute, UK. Social scientists and humanists have 'embedded' themselves in research laboratories to become active participants in laboratory activities both to observe researchers and to prompt a more reflexive disposition among them, even modestly reorienting their work in more socially robust directions.