Technology Assessment

COVID-19: Insights from Innovation Economists (EPFL)

May 11, 2020

A report from a collective of scholars primarily associated to the College of Management of Technology at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne leaded by Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Dominique Foray.
It provides a reading of current real-world developments using economic reasoning and relying on existing economic research.

Covid-19 contact-tracing apps (ETUI report)

May 7, 2020

Contact-tracing apps to combat the Covid-19 pandemic have increasingly been mentioned as useful tools to accompany and contribute to a return to normality despite the many ethical and legal questions they raise. The pressure exerted by business circles and lobbies to restart and ‘save the economy’ has been intense.

Ten technologies to fight coronavirus (STOA)

May 6, 2020

Author: Mihalis Kritikos of the Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) within the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS) of the Secretariat of the European Parliament. Abril 2020

PhD programme on Technology Assessment/Programa Doutoral

O Programa Doutoral em Avaliação de Tecnologia foi um dos mais significativos programas do Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, e teve a colaboração de outros departamentos da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Decorreu entre 2009 e 2023.

O Observatório de Avaliação de Tecnologia apoiou tecnica e cientificamente o Programa Doutoral em Avaliação de Tecnologia.