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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
Jan-Peter Voß appointed Junior Professor
Jan-Peter Voß, head of the Innovation in Governance research group, has been appointed Junior Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Technische Universität Berlin. In this role, he will be in charge of the subject area Sociology of Politics, focusing on the interrelation between politics, knowledge and innovation. In this new capacity he will develop a teaching programme that majors in the sociology of politics, complementing existing degree programmes in sociology and technology studies. Jan-Peter Voß will continue to serve as head of our research group.
Third Berlin Forum: Preliminary programme now available!
The preliminary programme for the 2012 Third Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance is now online. The keynote speakers have been confirmed as Frank Fischer (Rutgers University, USA) and Andy Stirling (University of Sussex, UK). The Forum will take place in Berlin on 31 May and 1 June 2012. For further information, please click here.
Upcoming Events
24 May 2012: Lunch seminar - Rob Hoppe, University of Twente (NL)
31 May – 1 June 2012: Third Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
5 – 7 June 2012: Transition Management and reflexive governance
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
4 July 2012: Strategies for adjusting policies to institutional, cultural and biophysical context conditions: The case of conservation banking in California (and Germany?)
Dresden, Germany
