Comparative Table of Parliamentary TA Institutions

AUSTRIA - THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT 

Institutionalisation

Finally, in 1985, a small working party was founded at the Institute for Socio-Economic Development Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) around Ernst Braun, formerly the head of the Technology Policy Unit (University of Aston), giving rise on 1.1.1988 to the Technology Assessment Unit (FTB), which later, on 1.1.1994, became the Institute of Technology Assessment (Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung, ITA). Ernst Braun left Austria as director in 1991, and was succeeded first by Gunther Tichy and then, in 2006, by Michael Nentwich. The ITA is an associate member of EPTA and a founder member of the NTA (network of the German speaking TA community).

 

Chapter Institutionalisation - all countries

Country Report Austria

 

 

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