- Much ado about new forms of governance – what’s behind it?
Welcome to the website of the Innovation in Governance Research Group!
We are an interdisciplinary research group examining the emergence, development, and expansion of new forms of governance.
Our aim is to devise a theoretical framework for the study of innovation in governance by implementing case studies on the global 'innovation journeys' of selected policy instruments and on their interaction with selected policy domains which delineate social-ecological contexts of implementation.
Alongside theory-based and empirical research, a transdisciplinary 'policy foresight' methodology will be developed to construct scenarios of future innovation pathways and discuss sustainability implications.
In September 2009, the group received funding for an initial four-year period from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) under its social-ecological research programme. It is based at the Technische Universität Berlin in affiliation with the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Technology and Society.
News
Governance in the making. An empirical turn on political science and technology
On the occasion of his appointment as Junior Professor for Sociology of Politics at the Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin, Jan-Peter Voß cordially invites you to his opening lecture, "Governance in the making. Eine empirische Wende auf Politikwissenschaft und -technik", and subsequent reception. The lecture takes place on Monday, 6 February, 2012 6 - 8pm, at Hardenbergstr. 16-18, 10623 Berlin, Room 6.06.
The lecture outlines a research perspective in which the linked development of theoretical policy models with new forms of political practice come to figure as a focus of analysing governance change. A programmatic outline will be supplemented by looking at current research on "policy instruments" (environmental markets and citizen participation procedures). Looking forward, the discussion will focus on alliances that are currently being forged with a view to realising a global policy for sustainable development.
Please RSVP if you intend to come by 2 February 2012 to crowe@ztg.tu-berlin.de.
New Graduate School at the Technische Universität Berlin
The Technische Universität Berlin has secured funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to set up a graduate school. Entitled "Innovation society today: The reflexive creation of novelty", the graduate school seeks to answer the question of how reflexively novelty is created, in which areas, and by which actors. The graduate school also has a research focus on innovation processes in governance. For further information, please go to the graduate school's interim website.
Upcoming Events
1 February 2012: Lunch seminar - Kristin Asdal, University of Oslo (NO)
Technologies of politics: Between governmental rationalities and "the device"
6 February 2012: Opening lecture: Governance in the making. An empirical turn on political science and technology
Berlin, Germany
1 March 2012: Lunch seminar - Richard Freeman, University of Edinburgh (UK)
13 – 14 March 2012: Beyond Efficiency - Exploring the Political and Institutional Dimensions of Market-based Instruments for Ecosystem Services
Evangelische Bildungsstätte, Berlin, Germany
