Tiago Santos Pereira

University of Coimbra | UC · Centre for Social Studies

More sustainable biosensor production is growing in importance, allowing for the development of technological solutions for several industries, such as those in the health, chemical, and food sectors. Tracking the latest advancements in biosensors’ scientific production is fundamental to determining the opportunities for the future of the biosensin...

In this chapter we address the challenges that automation/robotization poses for labor and employment issues. Our take is that technology assessment (TA) can provide a ground for both ethical reflection and social engagement towards participatory decision-making regarding the application of such technologies. The role of underlying narratives regar...

There is an interest in understanding the effect of economic crises such as the one that hit the financial markets in the late 2000s, on the innovation performance of countries and regions. This article introduces the concept of ‘resilience of innovation’ to illustrate how the economic slowdown affects firms’ behaviour in terms of their ability to...

Drawing upon the concepts of civic epistemologies and sociotechnical imaginaries, this article delves into the history of nuclear energy in Portugal, analyzing the ways in which the nuclear endeavor was differently enacted by various sociopolitical collectives – the Fascist State, post-revolutionary governments and the public. Following the 1974 re...

The development of a global knowledge economy may inequalities both within societies and between them. The aim of the RESIST project is to understand processes that contribute to the increase in inequality through the role of science and technology S&T but also how science and technology can contribute to mitigate inequality. Projects and case stud...

This Report presents the results of research conducted for the OECD Project on Systems Transformation, undertaken in the framework of the Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP). It conveys the results of the Portuguese Case Study. The goal of the project was to study advanced practices in policy support for the promotion of emerg...

This article analyzes how responsible innovation has been discussed and implemented in the context of one of the Portuguese government’s main activities to foster nanotechnology. Through the actor-network theory and the sociology of absences, we investigate the process of coproduction at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory to identi...

This article explores the evolution of the nuclear energy debate and its associated controversies in the Portuguese parliament. The analysis focuses on the dictatorial regime of the New State (from the beginning of the nuclear program in 1951 until the 1974 revolution) and on the democratic period (post-1974). Portugal, as an exporting country of u...

The story of Helicobacter pylori provides a fascinating case of what the science historian Lorraine Daston calls “ontologies in motion” and of how a living organism, in this case a bacterium, is constituted as a biomedical entity and thus endowed with a history and a biography through the mutual engagement of humans (researchers, clinicians, patien...

The present article discusses the governance of nanotechnology in the Brazilian context. By firstly identifying what we term as the European model of governance we conclude that the Brazilian policy and research environment of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology does not similarly emphasise Anticipatory Governance processes, based on anticipating future...

Qualquer processo de decisão coletivo é permeável ao conflito. Este fenómeno, geralmente enquadrado no âmbito da análise de controvérsias, tem vindo a suscitar, sobretudo ao longo das duas últimas décadas, um interesse científico crescente, o qual tem despertado diferentes abordagens e perspetivas analíticas. Neste âmbito, a cultura política que su...

Globalization did not create convergence to a unique economic model among countries. Even in developed countries, the answers to the pressures of markets underline the existence of a variety of capitalisms. The analysis of innovation systems, in particular at the national level, is adequate as a preliminary approach to understand the diversity of p...

A questão do risco tem emergido como um tema pertinente nas sociedades contemporâneas e na literatura sociológica actual. A emergência de novos riscos (Beck, 1986) como catástrofes ambientais, urgências sanitárias e acidentes industriais, suscitou o envolvimento dos cidadãos num processo reflexivo de deliberação. Este exercício colectivo deve ter a...

In this report, Research-intensive clusters (RICs) are defined as clusters that predominantly rely on research and development (R&D) as a source of their innovativeness and competitiveness. Such clusters are often based on strong partnership and collaboration between enterprises and public research organisations, including universities. RICs are ma...

The concept of National Innovation System (NIS) has been recently applied in the context of developing nations even tough it was originally developed in relation to the more developed economies (Japan, Scandinavian countries, US etc.). This raises the methodological problem of knowing whether what was learnt in the study of more advanced NISs is re...

This paper contributes empirically to our understanding of informed traders. It analyzes traders' characteristics in a foreign exchange electronic limit order market via anonymous trader identities. We use six indicators of informed trading in a cross-sectional multivariate approach to identify traders with high price impact. More information is co...

The increasing insistence of public policy on the economic and social impact of research has led to changes in the models of governance of science. The traditional model, based on the autonomy of science, has been gradually replaced by new models that place greater emphasis on processes of accountability within the framework of a greater sharing of...

The increased demands placed upon science from various social actors are not just a challenge for scientists but also for policy-makers. How to address the concerns of the public as well as the call from industry, while at the same time guaranteeing conditions for scientific development? This paper argues that such concerns are not incompatible but...

Keith Pavitt has made pioneering contributions to the study of science, technology and innovation. This paper aims to examine some of them on the basis of a bibliometric analysis of Keith Pavitt's work and the impact that he has had. First the paper follows how Pavitt's publication profile develops over time. Then we trace his most cited works and...

Science and technology have an important international dimension, often intersecting with foreign policy. We can distinguish between ‘science for diplomacy’, where scientific and technical knowledge are important resources in developing foreign policy, and ‘diplomacy for science’, where S&T are a concern of foreign policy. Small, less-advanced, cou...

Distribution of resources and opportunity has always been an important factor in European integration. As new and economically weaker join the EU in the future, this will become even more crucial. The reduction of inequalities occupies a prominent place on the European political agenda. This volume examines the cohesion impact of all of the main EU...

The relevance of creating adequate metrics to understand innovation processes is well stressed in the literature. A considerable effort was done by national and international statistical offices to achieve standards to facilitate an innovative performance comparison between countries, regions, firms or universities in order to facilitate strategic...

1 A d d r e s s i n g i n e q u a l i t y i n t h e k n o w l e d g e -b a s e d e c o n o m y : a n i s s u e o f e n a b l i n g n e w p l a y e r s o f c h a n g i n g t h e r u l e s ? Whatever else in the world we know survives to the year 2000, [the disparity between rich and poor] won't. Once the trick of getting rich is known, as it now is,...

The aim of this paper is to put forward a taxonomy of national innovation systems (NISs). With that purpose in mind we will first implement a technique for mapping innovation systems that was developed by Godinho et al. (2003). Such mapping allows one to compare directly different NISs, by visualizing in bi-dimensional space the graphic pattern of...