- 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
Innovation in Governance Research Fellowships: Deadline 31 October 2010!
The Innovation in Governance Research Programme invites applicants to its research fellowship programme. Research fellows can join us in Berlin for a period of between six weeks and three months. Application deadline for the first year: 31 October 2010. Full details available on our research fellows page.
Keynotes from First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance online
The keynote speeches from the recent First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance are now available online via youtube. Prof. Arie Rip (University of Twente) and Prof. Patrick Le Galès both spoke at the event, which took place in Berlin in May 2010.
Upcoming Events
22 – 25 August 2010: Advancing sustainability in a time of crisis
University of Oldenburg, Germany
September – December 2010: Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Columbia University, New York, USA
10 – 12 November 2010: Carbon Markets and their Future: A Social Science Perspective
University of Hamburg, Germany
