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The 2025 Eu-SPRI Annual Conference, hosted by the Social Research Center at TU Dortmund University in Dortmund, Germany, in collaboration with other groups within the university takes place 11 to 13 June 2025, with a preceding Early Career Event on 10 June.
Under the conference theme ‘Shaping Societal Futures with STI Policies’, the organising committee welcomes academic researchers from a broad range of disciplines, as well as STI policymakers, to submit proposals for paper and poster presentations. Submissions related to other topics around science, technology, and innovation policy (broadly defined) are also welcome. (Authors are invited to submit an abstract by 31 January 2025 to one of the thematic conference tracks https://euspri2025.de/index.php/callforpapers/#topicoverview or to the open track, which will then be peer-reviewed. If the abstract is accepted, authors are required to submit their final paper/extended abstract or poster by 18 May 2025.)
The conference addresses a number of interrelated questions:
- What contributions can policies for science, technology, and innovation make to increase the resilience of societies? How can social, ecological and economic goals be combined?
- Which alternative (post-Schumpeterian) models of innovation and innovation policy have emerged? How can different types of innovation (social and technological innovations) be systematically linked (comprehensive innovation policy, just transition, etc.)?
- How can we strengthen the link between STI policies and other policies to better tackle major societal challenges (Industry 4.0, triple transition, National Strategy for Social Innovation and Enterprises for the Common Good…)?
- Which empirical contributions critically examine the potential and limitations of STI policies? Which are its dark sides, its undesired and unexpected impacts?
- Given that the entire growth-based paradigm has come under scrutiny in debates around sufficiency, maintaining, de-growth, post-growth or resilience, how can the concept of innovation be critically reflected by focusing on its ambivalence and destructive side?
- What lessons can be learned from the experiences of the Global South? Which types of innovation research, policy and practice can provide impulses for learning processes in the Global North?
- How can the impact of the STI policy be assessed in a comprehensive sense?
For more information about the event and the call for abstracts and papers, please refer to the source page of this announcement: https://euspri-forum.eu/eu-spri-2025-conference-call-for-abstracts-and-papers/ and https://euspri2025.de/index.php/programme-10-june-13-june-2025/