Michael NENTWICH

Cyberscientist

This is the personal homepage of Univ.-Doz. Dr. Michael Nentwich,
director of the Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

I have been studying the food law of the European Union, Austrian adhesion to the EU, the constituionalizing of the European Union, in particular Maastricht and Amsterdam, and various issues in technology assessement, in particular genetechnology, telemedicine and telecommunications. My current research focusses on information and communication technologies (Internet) in science and research; in 2003 I published the book "Cyberscience. Research in the Age of the Internet". I also served as the editor of two online journals and took care of a few scholarly WWW pages. Since March 2004, I teach science and technology studies (STS) at the University of Vienna and technology assessment at FH Campus Vienna. Since January 2006 I manage the Institute of Technology Assessment in Vienna.

Current research projects:

• Interactive Science: Folowing up on my Cyberscience research, I am particularly interested in the impact of Web 2.0 on science and research. This is what my group found out so far: published results.
• NanoTrust: We look at societal issues and collect available knowledge about risk and safety of nanotechnologies; our main results are published as so-called NanoTrust Dossiers.

You can reach me as follows:

• at the Institute of Technology Assessment
• By mail: Strohgasse 45/5, A-1030 Wien (Vienna), Austria
• By phone: +43 1 51581 6583 (secretariate: 6582)
• By fax: +43 1 710 98 83
• By email: mnentoeaw.ac.at
• Via Skype: ita-mn

My publications

Latest books:
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1. Papers for downloading (this list includes the most recent and a few of my older papers)
2. My TA-related publications (from my home institute's database)
3. Complete list of my publications (also includes URLs when possible and lists other activities, such as teaching)
   • ordered by type of publication
   • ordered by year

I am or was involved in several WWW projects:

Current WWW projects:

1. Technology Assessment related sites:
   • Homepage of the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA), my present home institution, including:
     • Technology Assessment in the WWW – an intereactive link collection, started in May 1999
     • Cyberscience – an intereactive link collection, started in December 2000
   • NTA: Homepage of the network of the German speaking technology assessment community (since February 2005)
2. Intellectual Property Law sites:
   • KB-LAW: Knowledge Base Copyright Law, developed in the framework of the project "Creative access", funded by the Vienna Research and Technology Fund WWTF (2004-2006), further developed and expanded in the project "KB-Law", funded by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) (2007-2009)
3. European Integration research related sites:
   • The European Integration online Papers (EIoP): the first fully refereed online research paper series in the field since April 1997, now in its fifth year.
   • EIoPortal: common access point for EIoP, ERPA and EuroInternet since autumn 2000
     • European Research Papers Archive (ERPA): the most comprehensive search-engine for high-quality research papers in European integration
   • Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG): an innovative E-journal publishing sollicited state-of-the-art articles in the field of European governance research that will always be kept up-to-date by their authors (started in January 2005)

Previously involved:

1. Homepage of ECSA-Austria: founded on 11 Sept. 1996 only, this is the site of the Austrian European Community Studies Association (website now taken care of by the ECSA secretariate itself).
2. Homepage of the Research Institute for European Affairs, the largest and most widely known European institute in Austria (website now taken care of by the Institute's secretariate itself); started in January 1995.
3. Austrian Presidency Information System (APIS): A Guided Internet Tour covering the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science's four areas of responsibility; designed for the Austrian Presidency of the European Union, 2^nd half of 1998 (not available any more)
4. POPSCI – a collection of book references falling in the category "good popular science"; started February 1999, but not active any more.
5. Resources for fs/QCA (Summer/autumn 2001)
6. Collaborative cancer research team within United Devices (started April 2001)
7. DISKURS – an Authoring Tool For Writing Scientific Hypertexts (1999/2000)
8. Multimedia feature "Cyberscience" on the server of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science (1997)
9. FAQ "E-Urheberrecht": questions and answers regarding intellectual property law for scientists and scholars (started March 2004)
10. EUROGOV Papers: an online working paper series in the framework of two major European research networks (2004-2008)
11. Archive of European Integration (AEI): Eprint archive for European integration, based on the OAI metadata protocol and Eprint.org software which partners with ERPA, connected to ERPA via the new AEIPlus service
12. EuroInternet: A comprehensive, interactive database of internet sites since 1995 with information on European Affairs (member of the WWW Virtual Libraries family since March 2005)

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