Knowledge, Technology and Innovation
Knowledge, technology, and innovation are central to global and local transformations. Our critical engagement with socio-technical innovations creates space for understanding and possible reshaping the production, exchange, integration, and use of scientific and other knowledge. This chair group is led by Anita Hardon.
Research
We study how innovation is organised, how this is supported by different kinds of organisations and intermediaries, and how this is mediated by innovation policies. We pay special attention to the dynamics involved in the production, integration, and use of scientific and other knowledge in such processes.
Our research is divided into three main themes:
- Making knowledge work
- Configuring technology and society
- Co-designing responsible and sustainable innovations
Education
Education by this Chair Group
At the Chair Groups of Wageningen University, we are very passionate about teaching. Our teaching staff is involved in multiple courses on BSc and MSc level for different study programs.
Our courses include aspects of various sciences. In addition, we offer courses that focus on training academic skills, such as writing and debating skills.
Publications & Projects
The fundamental research at Wageningen University & Research is conducted by chair groups. Each chair group, under leadership of a professor, has its own area of expertise. All chair groups share a common research domain: healthy food and living environment. Wageningen University & Research is comprised of one faculty that is divided into five departments.
Projects of this Chair Group cover various topics in its own area of expertise. Outcomes of these studies are regularly published in scientific journals. You can find all publications and projects in Wageningen Library.
Highlighted projects
Highlighted publications
Chair Holder
Anita has been engaged in ambitious multi-level, multi-sited, and often interdisciplinary studies on immunization, new reproductive technologies, HIV medicines, and illicit and licit chemicals that have generated important ethnographic insights on the appropriation of these technologies in diverse social-cultural settings, their efficacy in everyday life, the role of social movements in their design, and the dynamics of care and policy-making in their provision. She makes communicating research findings to patient advocates, policy-makers, and public health researchers and practitioners a priority.
prof.dr. AP (Anita) Hardon
Chairholder
People of Knowledge, Technology and Innovation
Each chair group of Wageningen University & Research, under leadership of a professor, has its own area of expertise. Meet the people of this Chair Group.
