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[20-17] Research on improvement for technology assessment

Date : 2020-12-31 item : Research Report 20-17 P.I : Kim You-bean et al.

[20-17] Research on improvement for technology assessment

 Technology Assessment (TA) is conducted to analyze the social, economicand environmental ramifications of new technologies and use these to develop relevant response policies.

 In an environment where new technologies are constantly emerging, it is necessary to further strengthen the utilization by improving the procedures and methods so that the technology assessment is faithful to its original purpose. This study reports existing technology evaluation cases and performs meta-perspective analysis for institutional improvement.

 In order to derive an institutional improvement of the technology assessment, the introduction and progress of Korea's technology assessment was reviewed, and major issues were analyzed. Although it has gradually improved toward expanding citizen participation, it still does not go beyond the framework of expert-centered technology assessment.

By analyzing overseas examples of technology impact assessment, we derived directions and implications for future system improvement in Korea's technology assessment. It is necessary to strengthen the evaluation system through a dedicated organization including the parliament by preparing methods and procedures for evaluating the impact of citizen participation technology using STAA in the United States and OPECST in France as major benchmark models.

 Also, we proposed that an organization that performs general decisions and coordination on science and technology policy and execution is established as a permanent committee under the direct control of the President. Throughout this committee, constitutive technology impact assessment should be institutionalized to select and organize related R&D budgets

 Based on the ELSI/RRI*, which complements the current constituent technology assessment, it is necessary to derive a method for conducting a real-time technology assessment(RTTA) focused on finding alternatives by promoting a dialogue among stakeholders.

* ELSI(Ethical, Legal and Social Issues), RRI(Responsible Research and Innovation)