Human centred science and technology—transdisciplinary foresight and co-creation as tools for active needs-based innovation governance

摘要: Current governance structures are increasingly showing inability to address complex issues such as the Grand Challenges. Dealing with these highly interrelated, cross cutting, extensive and potentially open ended requires research, development innovation be oriented towards societal needs demands. Here, developing applying sustainable long term strategies for socio-technical change on basis of socially robust knowledge seems inevitable using tools anticipatory governance—forward looking participation—is essential in order govern actively responsibly. Yet, expert-based forward has its limits, especially when considering perspectives, may fail include all necessary opinions. Thus, stakeholder engagement become a norm over last decades, but including laypeople into science, technology (STI) is underexplored. strategy policy programme well suited function early entry point public values process. This paper will briefly review theoretical transdisciplinary provide first insights an ongoing deliberative reflexive foresight co-creation process engaging society makers, CIMULACT—Citizen Multi-Actor Consultation Horizon2020. We focus role within collective visioning exercise that allowed shared explorations desirable futures, thereby collecting tacit social values. Integrating stakeholders’ experts’ serves co-creating orienting programming based innovation.