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TechnikRadar

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Project description

The TechnikRadar is a regular survey that asks the public about their views, wishes, hopes, fears and needs in connection with new technologies and their implications. Respondents can rate individual technology fields as relevant, critical or neutral. In the medium to long term, these surveys, which are conducted every one to two years, will not only provide a snapshot of the situation at a given point in time (like the Eurobarometer surveys on science and technology), but will also reveal chronological and social trends over a period of several years. The TechnikRadar project also aims to analyse the social and cultural factors that shape people’s views, causing them to be either receptive or sceptical towards technological applications and innovations.

The results of TechnikRadar 2020 (German PDF), which can be downloaded free of charge here, were presented on 20 May 2020.

Project group members

  • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Barben
    Alpen-Adria-Universität
  • Prof. Martin W Bauer
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Prof. Dr. Manuel Frondel
    RWI-Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
  • Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Jakobs
    RWTH Aachen University Textlinguistik & Technikkommunikation
  • Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp
    Universität Stuttgart Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
  • Prof. Dr. Wolfgang König
    Technische Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
    Universität Hamburg
  • Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Ortwin Renn
    IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V.
  • Prof. Dr. Mike Schäfer
    Universität Zürich
  • Prof. Dr. Jule Specht
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner
    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung

Advisory committee members

  • Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg
  • Dr. Volker M. Brennecke
    VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V.
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Buchholz
    Evonik Operations GmbH
  • Nicole Burkhardt
    Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung Dienstsitz Berlin
  • Caroline Gebauer
    BUND - Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V.
  • Prof. Dr. Klaus Griesar
    Merck KGaA Headquarters of the Merck Group
  • Dr. Stefan Kaufmann
    Deutscher Bundestag
  • Prof. Dr. habil. Michael Bruno Klein
    Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung Wissenschaftsforum
  • Dr. Markus Ksoll
    Deutsche Bahn AG
  • Dr. Ingmar Kumpmann
    Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund
  • Dr. Sicco Lehmann-Brauns
    Siemens AG Corporate Technology
  • Dr. Michael Metzlaff
    Bayer AG Headquarter
  • Dr. Steffi Ober
    Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler (VDW e.V.)
  • Prof. Dr. Felix Osterheider
    Think Twice Consulting GmbH
  • PD Dr.-Ing. Simone Raatz
    Helmholtz Institut Freiberg für Ressourcentechnologie Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
  • Dr. Ulrich Romer
    Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie
  • Dr. Marc Schietinger
    Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
  • Dr. Stephan Schleissing
    Institut Technik-Theologie-Naturwissenschaften
  • Volker Stollorz
    Science Media Center Germany gGmbH
  • Markus Weißkopf
    Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH
  • Dr. Theresa Züger
    Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft
  • Project duration

    04/2017 — 03/2020

  • Management

    Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Ortwin Renn
    IASS
    Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V.

    Management

    Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp
    Universität Stuttgart
    Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
    Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften

    Coordination

    PD Dr. Marc-Denis Weitze
    acatech Geschäftsstelle
    Tel.: +49 89 520309-50
    weitze@acatech.de

  • Partners

    • Körber-Stiftung
    • ZIRIUS - Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Risiko- und Innovationsforschung
    • INFO GmbH Markt- und Meinungsforschung
  • Topic

    Technology & Society

News

Munich, 20. May 2020

TechnikRadar 2020: What Germans think about the bioeconomy

Berlin, 28. May 2019

TechnikRadar 2019: What Europeans think about the digital transformation

Berlin, 25. May 2018

New study reveals what Germans think about technology

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