Interactions between a variety of (potential) stakeholders is becoming a key area in the direction and evaluation of R&D and innovation. In Europe, and elsewhere, there is a move to include citizens at early stages of R&D concerning the effects of new technologies in society.

This is combined with a growing recognition that early interactions with potential users can provide insights to improve the design and market embedment of a technology. Also, engagement between the developers of a technology and public agencies is seen as a means to pave-the-way to productive tech-regulatory landscapes that allow safe and beneficial technologies.

Productive and constructive interactions and engagements is a challenging area in which teQnode SARL participates. Building on over 20 years of expertise on Constructive Technology Assessment, teQnode participates in the following activities: 

1) organising and conducting productive workshop-based interactions between multiple actors, combining expertise to explore a particular are, challenge or opportunity in relation to a new technology, a sector or an area of society in which a technology may impact. analysing the engagement and interaction landscape,

2) providing data and analysis on trends in engagement within different fields of science, technology and society.

3) analysing the engagement and interaction landscape, providing data and analysis on trends in engagement within different fields of science, technology and society