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Managing Technology in Society: Approach of the CTA Paperback – Import, 22 June 1995

Arie Rip . Cengage Learning EMEA . English

The chapters in this book are based on papers prepared for the international workshop on Constructive Technology Assessment, held at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 20-22 September 1991. Authors and editors have profited from the discussion and the contributions of participants in the workshop, which gathered eminent scholars in economics of technical change, history and sociology of science and technology, technology assessment, as well as a small number of interested policy-makers. The financial support of the Netherlands Organization for Technology Assessment (NOTA, now The Rathenau Institute), the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs and the Illinois Institute of Technology's ERIF programme is acknowledged.

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Thomas J. Misa is professor of history in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, teaching in the Program for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota. For 11 years he was director of the Charles Babbage Institute. He has published eleven books, including Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM (2016); FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World (2015); Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry (2013); Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing (2010); and Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (2011, 2nd edition).

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