Over the past few decades, significant advances have been made in public engagement
with, and the democratization of, science and technology. Despite notable successes, such …

Governing climate change polycentrically: setting the scene/Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema,
Jonas Schoenefeld, Harro van Asselt and Johanna Forster--International governance …

Test beds and living labs have emerged as a prominent approach to foster innovation
across geographical regions and technical domains. They feed on the popular “grand …

Studies of societal engagement with socio-technical change are undergoing a systemic turn.
Rather than simply viewing public engagement in science, policy and behavioural change in …

The fabric of contemporary democracy in many liberal Western societies is in tatters.
Citizens are disconnected from their elected representatives, they are fractured and …

The idea that experiments represent key settings and instruments for participation in public
affairs has acquired a distinctly contemporary flavor. Social and political experiments feature …

In recent years, innovation policy has increasingly embraced “situated” perspectives to
better account for both how culture matters for innovation in diverse settings and how to deal …

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 a new vision of …

This article introduces and develops the concept of 'communicative plenty'to capture the
implications of the increasing volume of communication, both online and face-to-face, in …

In the face of rapid technological development of investigative technologies, broader and
more meaningful public engagement in policy-making is paramount. In this article, we …