Arie Rip

Arie Rip
Born (1941-06-13) 13 June 1941
Kethel en Spaland
Academic work
Main interests Social science

Arie Rip (born 13 June 1941, Kethel en Spaland) is a Dutch social scientist, active in the field of Science and technology studies.[1][2]

Career

During 1988–1989 he was the President of the international Society for Social Studies of Science. From 2000 until 2005 he was the head of WTMC, the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. The WTMC is a formal collaboration of Dutch researchers studying the development of science, technology and modern culture. In 2006 Rip formally retired as the Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Twente, a position he held since 1987.[3][4] He has published extensively on various topics concerning the philosophy and sociology of scientific and technological developments, and on science and innovation policy.[5] Rip has, for example, introduced the widely used method of ´Constructive Technology Assessment´, CTA.[6][7][8] Currently he is among others a Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

Rip became chairman of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S-NET) in 2008.[9]

Key publications

References

  1. "A timely harvest", Nature, November 8, 2007
  2. "Public control could be a nightmare for researchers", Nature, December 20, 2007
  3. "Ethical discussions concerning nanotechnology are often too futuristic", Nanowerk, May 28, 2009
  4. "Fearing the fear of nanotechnology", Nature, December 9, 2008
  5. "Nanotech at risk of repeating 'GM food fiasco'" Archived February 8, 2010, at the Wayback Machine., Euractiv, September 29, 2009
  6. "The European Group on Ethics debated ethics of nanomedicine", Nanowerk, March 23, 2006
  7. Managing technology in society: the approach of constructive technology assessment by Arie Rip, Thomas J. Misa and Johan Schot, Pinter Publishers, 1995
  8. "Constructive Technology Assessment and Socio-Technical Scenarios", The Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society: Presenting Futures by Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin and Jameson M. Wetmore, シュプリンガー・ジャパン株式会社, 2008
  9. "New Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies", Nanowerk, November 25, 2008

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/18/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.