Abstract
In this chapter I describe, analyze and reflect on relations between business, science and technology. My angle is the de facto governance of policymaking on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). I start by summarizing the literature on STI as an organizational field. Its overall framework of a multilevel, co-evolutionary process of doing business and commodification of technoscience in capitalist and democratic societies serves as background to recording developments over time in the policy domain of STI governance itself. STI-policymaking is a bewildering palimpsest of layering, conversion and drift of older and more recent goals, strategies and instruments. Next, I mention and reflect on the unintended, frequently undesirable consequences of a century of de facto STI-governance. Assuming that drift towards even more commodified technoscience is unsustainable, I conclude with some conjectures on the future of STI-governance as decommodification and political problematization of technoscience.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Business and Public Policy |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar |
| Pages | 232-259 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781788979122 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781788979115 |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Aug 2021 |