Papers by Douglas K . R . Robinson
Summary Potentially breakthrough innovations stemming from emerging fields of technoscience (such... more Summary Potentially breakthrough innovations stemming from emerging fields of technoscience (such as nanotechnology and genomics) are high on the agenda of the FTA1 Community. In this paper I address the issue of strategy-context fitting in a special case of strategy articulation for research and R&D management, i.e. under early stage and 'hot' conditions of the emergence of techno- science. Complexity
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Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Jul 1, 2012
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Technological Forecasting Social Change, 2013
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European Journal of Law and Technology, Nov 23, 2011
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PhD Thesis - University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2010
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Scientometrics, 2007
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Research Policy, 2007
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Editors: Lynn Frewer, Willem Norde, Arnout Fischer and Frans Kampers Nanotechnology in the agrifood sector. Implications for the future (working title). Edited book to be published by John Wiley & sons, Inc., New Jersey (2011)., 2011
Nanotechnologies promise to enable improvements in many sectors. One key promising area is in the... more Nanotechnologies promise to enable improvements in many sectors. One key promising area is in the diagnostics and sensing area, where a variety of nanotechnology platforms are being developed for application to land management, process diagnostics, quality control, and authenticity. This chapter gives an overview of some of the key areas of activity in nanotechnologies for improving food quality, safety, and security as identified through the research activities of the European Commission-funded ObservatoryNANO project. It ...
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Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 2013
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ABSTRACT Potentially breakthrough science and technologies promise applications which may radical... more ABSTRACT Potentially breakthrough science and technologies promise applications which may radically affect society. Nanotechnology is no exception, promising many benefits through nano-enabled applications across multiple sectors and with the potential of affecting many parts of our society. At present, during its early stages, a wide variety of actors are anticipating both on the potential benefits and risks of the development of nanotechnologies and their embedment into markets and into society. Those wishing to coordinate and develop appropriate governance strategies for nanotechnologies need to consider both the wide spectrum of nanotechnology research and development lines, the governance landscape surrounding nanotechnology and the application areas it will affect, and how these may co-evolve with each other. This paper presents a research project that took the recent activities in and around the notion of Responsible Research and Innovation of nanotechnologies as an opportunity to develop support tools for exploring potential co-evolutions of nanotechnology and governance arrangements. This involved the inclusion of pre-engagement analysis of potential co-evolutions in the form of scenarios into interactive workshop activities, with the aim of enabling multi-stakeholder anticipation of the complexities of co-evolution.
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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2006
In this paper we develop and use mapping tools to investigate emerging technological fields by st... more In this paper we develop and use mapping tools to investigate emerging technological fields by studying the dynamics of expectations, agenda building and early networks. In our approach, expectations describe shared beliefs with regard to prospective entities and positions. Agendas are sets of priorities present to guide the actors in their work. The structure that arises as a result of the actions and interactions of actors is the emerging network. For emerging technologies these processes are susceptible to change and the technological paths that may arise are still easy to influence. We propose that not only looking at expectation dynamics, but also including agenda setting and networks dynamics is essential in order to successfully capture the complexities of the emergence of technological paths. A major challenge for this work lies in unveiling the socio-technical dynamics leading to path emergence. For this purpose we investigate the phenomena of irreversibilities that emerge during the ongoing interactions of researchers, institutes, policy makers and firms. With these aspects in mind, we will use a broadened view of expectation dynamics in order to arrive at an improved understanding of the building blocks of path emergence. We illustrate our approach with a case study of Lab-on-a-chip technology for medical and pharmaceutical applications.
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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2012
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2014
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2013
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2008
Roadmapping serves both short and long term (strategic) alignment in science and technology (S&T)... more Roadmapping serves both short and long term (strategic) alignment in science and technology (S&T). Forecasts of the likely future development of S&T are generated; then research and development (R&D) efforts necessary to realize various goals are backcast. But for new and emerging S&T this trusted principle does not work: the likely products are not articulated yet. A promising approach however is building mapping tools based on underlying patterns and indicators of the dynamics of emergence. This paper discusses, based on a first round application in the field of micro and nanotechnologies for single cell analysis, the methodology of such a new approach. The work is linked to a programme of Future oriented Technology Assessment (FTA) activities coordinated within a European nanotechnology research network.
Our paper addresses well-known lacunae of alignment tools from the viewpoints of the path creation/dependency literatures. We then apply these insights to lab-on-a-chip devices for cell analysis. Dynamics of emerging paths can be used to articulate a future structured in terms of prospective innovation chains and potential paradigms. We demonstrate a plausible variety of paths, which provides a broader set of strategic choices. This enables management of expectations and hype by which emerging S&T are characterised, and leads to alignment of actors. Our tool can be applied in strategic management of research and R&D at the level of science-to-industry networks. These are becoming an important element in European S&T policy but will only be successful if ways are found for closing gaps in the innovation chain.
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Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 2014
Nano-enabled drug delivery (NEDD) systems are rapidly emerging as a key area for nanotechnology a... more Nano-enabled drug delivery (NEDD) systems are rapidly emerging as a key area for nanotechnology application. Understanding the status and developmental prospects of this area around the world is important to determine research priorities, and to evaluate and direct progress. Global research publication and patent databases provide a reservoir of information that can be tapped to provide intelligence for such needs. Here, we present a process to allow for extraction of NEDD-related information from these databases by involving topical experts. This process incorporates in-depth analysis of NEDD literature review papers to identify key subsystems and major topics. We then use these to structure global analysis of NEDD research topical trends and collaborative patterns, inform future innovation directions. This paper describes the process of how to derive nano-enabled drug delivery-related information from global research and patent databases in an effort to perform comprehensive global analysis of research trends and directions, along with collaborative patterns.
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Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2012
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Papers by Douglas K . R . Robinson
Our paper addresses well-known lacunae of alignment tools from the viewpoints of the path creation/dependency literatures. We then apply these insights to lab-on-a-chip devices for cell analysis. Dynamics of emerging paths can be used to articulate a future structured in terms of prospective innovation chains and potential paradigms. We demonstrate a plausible variety of paths, which provides a broader set of strategic choices. This enables management of expectations and hype by which emerging S&T are characterised, and leads to alignment of actors. Our tool can be applied in strategic management of research and R&D at the level of science-to-industry networks. These are becoming an important element in European S&T policy but will only be successful if ways are found for closing gaps in the innovation chain.
© 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Our paper addresses well-known lacunae of alignment tools from the viewpoints of the path creation/dependency literatures. We then apply these insights to lab-on-a-chip devices for cell analysis. Dynamics of emerging paths can be used to articulate a future structured in terms of prospective innovation chains and potential paradigms. We demonstrate a plausible variety of paths, which provides a broader set of strategic choices. This enables management of expectations and hype by which emerging S&T are characterised, and leads to alignment of actors. Our tool can be applied in strategic management of research and R&D at the level of science-to-industry networks. These are becoming an important element in European S&T policy but will only be successful if ways are found for closing gaps in the innovation chain.
© 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.