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Technology Assessment and Technology Inducement Mechanism
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 283-301
ISSN: 0092-5853
Programs of technology assessment are increasingly being used to attempt to control the potentially harmful impact of new technologies. Such programs typically assume that technology is an exogenous force in socioeconomic development. However, there is evidence that technological development itself is induced by socioeconomic forces. This assumption suggests that technology assessment should be focused on the inducement mechanism & not on new technological devices, aiming to perfect the social processes producing innovations. 1 Figure. Modified HA.