The term technological policy designates all political activities of planning, development, the employment and the evaluation of technology technological policy is a politics policy, which covers the various measures apart from the promotion of research and development also for the diffusion and use of new technologies and the treatment of subsequent problems (Simonis et al. 2001). For the eighties therefore also of technological policy as innovation politics one speaks. This tendency can be determined both on different political levels (regions, national state, and on the level of internationally active enterprises, which align its technology development (F&E) more strongly to later applications and the customer needs. In the European technological policy this orientation is strengthened pursued since center of the 90's (Schaper Rinkel 2003). The national states compete with one another around speed as well as intensity of the development of new technologies and analyze thereby increasingly more systematically the supporting measures competitive Staaten.Das a goal and action spectrum of the national technological policy both qualitatively and quantitatively are extended. The spectrum of instruments of the research and technological policy is accordingly various. The instruments of national research and technological policy exist

• in the institutional promotion (large-scale-research facilities, Max-Planck company, Fraunhofer Society, universities etc.),
• in financial incentives (programs with FuE promotion and group projects, innovation programs, risk capital) and
• in the supply of infrastructures and support of the transfer of technology (information and consultation, support of co-operation and networks).

To the instruments in the broader sense those belong

• the public demand,
• the organization and financing of the discourse (long period visions, technology assessment, Awareness measures),
• Basic and advanced training (Inititierung and promotion of the out and structure of courses of studies and the development of teaching professions),
• Administrative policy (competitive policy, regulations politics, influence of the private demand).

Goals

As relatively indisputable summary of general politics policies in the last years the concept of the lastingness became generally accepted. Transferred to the range of the technological policy this means orientation at lasting technologies.

Examples

Literature

• Stefan Kuhlmann: Politics presentation: Evaluation procedure in the research and technological policy. Baden-Baden 1998.
• Petra Schaper Rinkel: The European information society. Technological and political integration in the European policy. 2003.
• George Simonis, Renate Martinsen, Thomas Saretzki (Hg.): Politics and technology: Analyses to the relationship of technological, political and national

Change at the beginning 21. Century. Wiesbaden 2001.

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